This teenager is hot property in Silicon Valley
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#2Yet another example why we need the Startup Visa.
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I'd love to apply for the O-1, but I'm not sure I'm ready yet.
No other visas are suitable.
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#5Great read, best of luck.
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I'd love to apply for the O-1, but I'm not sure I'm ready yet. No other visas are suitable.
No idea what parent poster said (comment deleted), but if you want to work in the US, you can still try for an H1B visa. Your work experience and achievements can be used to demonstrate specialization in the field and serve as the equivalent of a college Bachelors degree. The quota was exhausted for this year, but assuming you are Australian you can shoot for an E3.
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I'd love to apply for the O-1, but I'm not sure I'm ready yet. No other visas are suitable.
If you do move here, stay in San Francisco / Berkeley and not San Jose / Palo Alto. It's better for single people in the SF area vs the San Jose area, where engineers move to raise their families in suburbia. You also wont need a car in SF, which at your young age can help you avoid higher insurance rates or needing to get a licence. Car rental companies will charge you an extra $25/day for being under 25, but they'll be more willing to give you free car upgrades because of the $25/day charge.
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#8As a 17 year old, this makes me feel under accomplished. While I do have skills in regards to computery things, I'm hitting a block when it comes to developing backends to sites. I know HTML and CSS decently but programming languages that I'd need to learn just seem to bounce off.
On the plus side, I'm good at other things too, like photography / producing electronic music (no Madeon though. He makes me feel under accomplished as well). And I know that I shouldn't be too hard on myself to be good at things - I'm only 17. But part of me wants to be known as someone who's really good at something at a younger than normal age.
This person's story is really cool - it's too bad immigration has him caught up. Startup visas would be nifty. Could he go to college in the US? Even though he clearly doesn't need a college education (and questionably a bit of those who go to college, but that's another debate), it could serve as a sort of foot in the door for getting settled in America. I'm probably wrong about this but also curious as to what would make this not a viable option.
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#9Awesome
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#10Would you consider staying in Australia?
I suppose the startup scene here is nothing like it is in Silicon Valley/New York/etc., but it's not non-existent either.