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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by pandaman on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:20PM (#11309413)
The three people you listed are not known for founding billion dollar startups. They are known as employees of Google and Microsoft (unless you meant somebody else with the same last names as Google and Microsoft CEO and Google's former VP of engineering).
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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by agmohit01 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:31PM (#11309466)
Alright. Let me list down some immigrants who came here on H1B visa.

1. Jyoti Bansal - Founder of AppDynamics The guy in the above mentioned article was on H1B.

2. Kevin Systrom - Cofounder of Instagram was on H1B visa.

3. Jay Scaler - Founder of ZScaler an unicorn, was on H1B visa

4. Vinod Khosla - Founder of Sun Microsystems and well known VC was on H1B visa initially

Will list down some more in some time.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by ausjke on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:50PM (#11309532)
In fact H1B has to work for an employer and can not founder a company(at least easily or legally), you have to earn your permanent residence first, which takes quite a few years at least.
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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by ropiku on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:11PM (#11309604)
Correct. Many don't come right away to make a startup, they work, get contacts&experience and then the startup appears.
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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by serge2k on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:06PM (#11309591)
Yup.

It's a shitty system that locks you in to working for other places for years.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by mtviewdave on Friday March 18, 2016 @12:31AM (#11309916)
>Vinod Khosla - Founder of Sun Microsystems and well known VC was on H1B visa initially

The H-1B visa was created in 1990. Khosla started working in the U.S. in 1980 after graduating from Stanford, and founded Sun in 1982. It seems doubtful he was ever on an H-1B.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by foobarqux on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:34PM (#11309472)
> 2. Kevin Systrom - Cofounder of Instagram was on H1B visa.

I don't think that's correct.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by wayne on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:45PM (#11309516)
He probably meant the other cofounder Mike Krieger. http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-cofounder-mike-krie...
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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by aviwl on Friday March 18, 2016 @12:21AM (#11309881)
By "Jay Scaler" do you mean Jay Chaudhry?
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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by dang on Friday March 18, 2016 @12:12AM (#11309832)
Please don't do this here.
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