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Simone Vitale

Simone Vitale

Senior Engineering Manager at Amazon and Italian-born immigrant who left Sicily at 25 to build a career and family in America.

Sep 7, 2026

MitchHOST
3:43
Why America? Yeah.
3:45
So it's interesting, and I will not go into any history that I haven't lived myself or neither my parents.
3:52
But, you know, after the Second World War, with the American helping us to get away from, you know, the tyranny that we had with the fascists and so forth, Italy became... kind of an American loving countries.
4:07
They've always seen the Americans are the people that came and liberated not just Italy, but the entire Europe by something that wasn't very much culturally fitting into that part of the world, if you know what I mean.
4:20
And so there is a sentiment of loving American people above all, of course, presidents and politicians and trying to come and go.
4:30
But the true spirit remains there.
4:32
So there was a country that came from far, far away and helped us.

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MitchHOST
24:58
Well, I mean, because you talk about pursuit, but is there other ways that you think potentially the American, you know, Americans get it wrong when they say the American dream is dead? I, for one, don't believe the American dream is dead, but many do.

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