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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?
Dubai? So are you not interested in attracting women to startups?
That's cool. Good for folks in that situation. What about people with families or dependents that can't afford to uproot their life and relocate to SV? Don't get me wrong, this is great, but it would be even better if it expanded to include additional circumstances.
"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 th…
I mean, most startups don't have the opportunity to "break things" like this:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/travel-ban-iranian-ba...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there any stats on how many prior YC founders were from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen?
That's the intent of my comment, I can't believe I'm being downvoted for a rational question presented in a neutral manner.
Painting the people who oppose the policy as "hysterical" isn't neutral and I bet that's what people are reacting to.
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?
And if they can't get in the US, well that's an easy call.
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/
Wow. We often wonder how the Bay Area would be unseated as startup capital of the world. Maybe it'll be the US's immigration problem.