H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
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#2Does it mean it costed the US of potential opportunities? I don't think it made any difference in the US. But it surely helped in his home country.
While we are at it, what do you think of current visa issue in the USA? For a long time, I thought it was difficult only to people of Asian countries to migrate to US, but turns out it is equally difficult for any other nations.
In the long term, does it make a difference in US if it doesn't bring talent across the world? Of course, there are a lot of talent and there is always someone willing to move to US. So it shouldn't be an issue, should it?
Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
#3Does it mean it costed the US of potential opportunities? I don't think it made any difference in the US. But it surely helped in his home country. While we are at it, what do you think of current visa issue in the USA? For a long time, I thought it was difficult only to people of Asian countries to migrate to US, but turns out it is equally difficult for any other nations. In the long term, does it make a difference…
agree, since India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space, most unicorns in India are just companies that already exist in some form in USA. In India, the execution of a business is the hard part by far, and not the novelty of the idea.
Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
#4Does it mean it costed the US of potential opportunities? I don't think it made any difference in the US. But it surely helped in his home country. While we are at it, what do you think of current visa issue in the USA? For a long time, I thought it was difficult only to people of Asian countries to migrate to US, but turns out it is equally difficult for any other nations. In the long term, does it make a difference…
agree, since India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space, most unicorns in India are just companies that already exist in some form in USA. In India, the execution of a business is the hard part by far, and not the novelty of the idea.
>>India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space
I don't quite understand this. Do you mean that they are still using Internet Explorer , Java 5 , Windows 7 and Myspace?
Please explain.
Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
agree, since India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space, most unicorns in India are just companies that already exist in some form in USA. In India, the execution of a business is the hard part by far, and not the novelty of the idea.
>>India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space I don't quite understand this. Do you mean that they are still using Internet Explorer , Java 5 , Windows 7 and Myspace? Please explain.
This idiom is referring to the maturity of their tech industry at a high level, not their tooling (though that could be a minor part of it).
As an example, a country with paper-only tax filing might be said to be a decade behind a country with easy online e-file. It’s referring to the difference in technical capabilities, capacity, and/or innovation.
Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
#6Since it’s not mentioned in the tweet, the unicorn in question is Snapdeal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdeal
Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
#7Does it mean it costed the US of potential opportunities? I don't think it made any difference in the US. But it surely helped in his home country. While we are at it, what do you think of current visa issue in the USA? For a long time, I thought it was difficult only to people of Asian countries to migrate to US, but turns out it is equally difficult for any other nations. In the long term, does it make a difference…
agree, since India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space, most unicorns in India are just companies that already exist in some form in USA. In India, the execution of a business is the hard part by far, and not the novelty of the idea.
> since India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space, most unicorns in India are just companies that already exist in some form in USA.
There are some areas where India has leapfrogged ahead of United States and China. Look at digital payments for instance.
Since the 90's we have seen countless examples of how US / western products and services cannot be sold as-is.
Like all markets, India is unique. It also happens to be significant in size and companies homegrown and global focus on addressing local needs.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
agree, since India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space, most unicorns in India are just companies that already exist in some form in USA. In India, the execution of a business is the hard part by far, and not the novelty of the idea.
>>India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space I don't quite understand this. Do you mean that they are still using Internet Explorer , Java 5 , Windows 7 and Myspace? Please explain.
I guess they're trying to say that things like Uber, Amazon, Door Dash, AirBNB, Venmo etc. have a strong foothold in USA, but in India there's a lot of "home grown" alternatives that have beaten the US big tech to adapt to the Indian market. eg. Ola, Flipkart, Paytm, etc.
Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
#9Note this was in 2007, during the height of the H1B body shop scams. The USCIS visa system was overwhelmed by companies like Infosys and Tata just submitting 1000s of applications for clearly underqualified, yet cheap candidates for jobs that didn't exist. This writer probably got their visa rejected over a less qualified candidate because of the quota limits for H1b.
Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
#10Does it mean it costed the US of potential opportunities? I don't think it made any difference in the US. But it surely helped in his home country. While we are at it, what do you think of current visa issue in the USA? For a long time, I thought it was difficult only to people of Asian countries to migrate to US, but turns out it is equally difficult for any other nations. In the long term, does it make a difference…
agree, since India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space, most unicorns in India are just companies that already exist in some form in USA. In India, the execution of a business is the hard part by far, and not the novelty of the idea.
How exactly? In certain sectors like payments, India appears to be ahead of the US by certain years thanks to UPI.