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Re:Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders by claudiulodro on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @03:32PM (#42627078)
Of these, half of the founders came to the US for university[1] (25% of all unicorns). That would be a pretty wealthy or non-representative group to begin with, since international tuition is very expensive, no? As a whole, immigrants have higher poverty rates in the US than native-born residents[2], which is also an interesting data point to juxtapose with this.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/07/26/most-...

[2] https://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc262e.pdf

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Re:Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders by adarsh_p on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:15PM (#42627579)
As I understand it, the tuition differential is only for public universities, not private ones. Private universities/colleges may cover the full financial need of international students if they cannot afford tuition.

Source: I was an international student and got nearly a full ride to a private SLAC.

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