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YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by raverbashing »

ajeet_dhaliwal wrote: post #14
startupdiscuss wrote: post #5

Perhaps a startup founder could exploit "ease-of-travel arbitrage" and offer a service: Remote working from several countries that are easy to get to, accept a wide range of passports, and have enormous bandwidth. Canada is a lot more open than the US at this point in time, but it's not all roses for people even to get to Vancouver. What if there were a hub in, say Dubai? And a few other spots around the world? I ima…

It would be great if they held interviews in a couple of places besides Canada, one place in Europe and one place in Asia. Would be a lot of travel for them twice a year though.

They'll still need a visa to go though the YC acceleration period if they get selected though.

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by ronilan »

sremani wrote: post #12

May be this is a dumb question, I will ask it anyway, Tijuana Mexico is about 500 miles from Bay Area, where as Vancouver Canada is 1000 miles. Que Canada?

Vancouver is one of those places where:

The future is already (t)here – it's just not evenly distributed.

-- William Gibson

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by refurb »

GuiA wrote: post #40

The lead the US has had in science/engineering/technology over the past 70+ years is in no small part due to the massive brain drain from Europe, and the rest of the world, due to fascist regimes. If the US's new shiny fascist regime keeps progressing at this pace, you can bet that things will reverse quickly. Good bye, world leading startups, nobel prizes, top universities, etc. These things can happen faster than o…

If the US's new shiny fascist regime keeps progressing at this pace...the best thing countries like China could do right now is heavily fund things such as foreign PhD students.

Wait, so you're saying everyone is leaving fascist USA, but China will be the beneficiary of that?

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by throwawaysed »

I like how HN will change any clickbait titles you post but regularly does clickbait titles of its own.

This entire article could, and should, be a single sentence title. "YCombinator holding Canada interviews for founders without US Visa".

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by dang »

davidw wrote: post #10

"Move fast and break things" indeed :-/ https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/839608371686801410

Since there was a big thread about that yesterday I think we're going to mark this subthread as offtopic and invite those of you who are interested to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824680.

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by aasarava »

minikites wrote: post #21

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/how-trump-became... > “Trump is the Silicon Valley candidate in every way except that the ideology is flipped,” said Sam Altman, a prominent technology leader, chief executive of Y Combinator. So now that the government has been "disrupted", YC has decided to avoid the issue by fleeing the country? Maybe instead of avoiding the issue, YC could organize Silicon Valley and sp…

Yes, this is an important comment. While it's a virtue for Silicon Valley organizations like YC to adapt quickly, adapting in this case means clearing the way for the administration to solidify its haphazard immigration policy. Hopefully the YC staff is using its connections to Peter Thiel and others who have the president's attention to lobby hard against a policy that will directly and indirectly hurt many people and businesses in Silicon Valley.

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by alpha_squared »

davidw wrote: post #10

"Move fast and break things" indeed :-/ https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/839608371686801410

Wow, that's pretty far out of context. Far enough to imply the opposite of the statement's sentiment. For reference, the full quote by Altman is,

> “Trump is the Silicon Valley candidate in every way except that the ideology is flipped,” said Sam Altman, a prominent technology leader, chief executive of Y Combinator and a major Hillary Clinton donor. “He’s an outsider. He took on a system he thought was broken and then disregarded the rules, he got to know his users well and tested his product early and iterated rapidly. That’s the start-up playbook. That’s exactly what we tell our start-ups to do.”

Cherry-picking the words in the quote to paint the picture that Altman supports Trump somehow is quite deceitful.

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by crazy1van »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #39
exabrial wrote: post #20

Who is having trouble getting a Visa exactly? Just curious, trying to separate fact from hysteria

Nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen that do not currently hold dual nationality with another country, an existing visa, or another document permitting entry. No hysteria there.

Are there any stats on how many prior YC founders were from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen?

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by [deleted] »

JamilD wrote: post #3

This is great news for both Canadian and international founders. Is the next step having an additional Canadian office for those that can't get US visas? Canada has a generous startup visa for founders coming from other countries [0]. [0] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/start-up/

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