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 * name         = Patrick Bet-David
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 * occupation   = Entrepreneur and financial advisor

Patrick Bet-David is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and financial advisor.

He was born in Iran; His parents were of Assyrian and Armenian descent. In the late 1980s he fled Iran with his father during the Iran–Iraq War; they lived for two years in a refugee camp in Germany before immigrating to the US in 1990, when Bet-David was 12 years old. The family was eventually granted US citizenship. After high school he enlisted in the US army and served with the 101st Airborne Division.

After leaving the Army he got a job at Morgan Stanley wealth management. After a dinner event with George Will in 2009, he launched a website called Saving America and later a radio show broadcast in Los Angeles, to encourage people to be entrepreneurial and to educate people about fiscal responsibility. Later that year he opened a financial services agency offering term and permanent insurance, debt settlements, and 401(k) rollovers into indexed annuities called PHP Agency, which stood for "People Helping People".

In 2013 he gave interviews advising people to avoid debt, and based on the housing market at that time, not to buy houses but instead rent, and to use any wealth they had acquired to start a business. In 2015 he gave an interview advising people graduating from high school to avoid the debt of going to college unless they had a clear professional goal of being a doctor or lawyer or want to play professional sports, and advised them instead to travel or intern for a year.

Books

 * Bet-David, Patrick, Doing The Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible, 2012
 * Bet-David, Patrick, The Next Best Storm, 2012
 * Bet-David, Patrick, Drop Out and Get Schooled: The Case for Thinking Twice About College, 2016
 * Bet-David, Patrick, The Life of an Entrepreneur in 90 Pages: There's an Amazing Story Behind Every Story, 2016