"50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
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Re: "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
#2I'm not sure this is even an SV-specific phenomenon; small-business founders in the U.S. have long been disproportionately foreign-born. I wonder what the statistics would be for restaurant owners.
Re: "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
#3Heck, 50% of this entire industry is foreign born.
Re: "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
#4Although I don't think being an immigrant is a defacto stamp of approval of any sorts, the adversity you face as an immigrant kid does change you.
OR being an outcast of any sort.
The analogy I think of is you're brain is like a clay pot being formed in your youth. Hard hands (hard experiences) either create something amazing or destroy you. And then your teenage years cure you into that state.
Re: "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
#5What gives these foreigners the right to come over here and make American jobs? That leaves fewer jobs for native-born Americans to make!
Re: "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
#6Although I don't think being an immigrant is a defacto stamp of approval of any sorts, the adversity you face as an immigrant kid does change you. OR being an outcast of any sort. The analogy I think of is you're brain is like a clay pot being formed in your youth. Hard hands (hard experiences) either create something amazing or destroy you. And then your teenage years cure you into that state.
I think it is incorrect to assume an immigrant kid faces adversity. Most of the emigration to SV is from well-off families with well-adjusted kids and they settle in well-off areas.
Re: "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
#7Not especially surprising, nor damning of american-borns. Those with the motivation, skills, and education to move abroad (to anywhere!) and start a business are going to, on average, outperform the population which was born there. Not because they are naturally better, but because they were self-selected by being there in the first place.
Just like I'd be willing to bet that americans living abroad are overrepresented as entrepreneurs wherever they happen to be living.
Re: "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
#8What gives these foreigners the right to come over here and make American jobs? That leaves fewer jobs for native-born Americans to make!
What gives these Europeans the right to come over here and take Americans' land? That leaves less land for native Americans!
Re: "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
#9What gives these foreigners the right to come over here and make American jobs? That leaves fewer jobs for native-born Americans to make!
What gives these Europeans the right to come over here and take Americans' land? That leaves less land for native Americans!
I think you fail to see the irony in OP's comment.
Re: "50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"
#10Immigrants by self-selection are already risk-takers, that fits well as a trait to be an entrepreneur.