How a childhood of resilience and grit led Clear’s Caryn Seidman Becker to Wall Street — and her American dream

Source: New York Post

Through July 4, The Post, in conjunction with the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, is featuring US citizens explaining what the American dream means to them in 2026 — including Caryn Seidman Becker, the Chair and CEO of Clear. My dad’s parents were from Eastern Europe. They came from nothing, and my grandfather came here when he was 17, [traveling] at the bottom of a boat for weeks.