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Re:Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders by 9rx on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:37PM (#42626432)
Does the "I can always go back whence I came" also lower the perceived risk? If a domestically-born founder fails they aren't apt to have anywhere else they can go, thus having to stick around to deal with the fallout.
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Re:Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders by netsharc on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:55PM (#42626656)
I can imagine the opposite "This place is so nice and I don't want to go back to what I perceive as a hellhole", and so they work harder to succeed.
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Re:Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders by 9rx on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @03:01PM (#42626719)
A significant number of these founders are from Canada. It is not that much different from the USA. Canada is less business friendly, perhaps, but that isn't important after you've failed.
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