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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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