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Alright. Let me list down some immigrants who came here on H1B visa. 1. Jyoti Bansal - Founder of AppDynamics The guy in the above mentioned article was on H1

Alright. Let me list down some immigrants who came here on H1B visa. 1. Jyoti Bansal - Founder of AppDynamics The guy in the above mentioned article was on H1B. 2. Kevin Systrom - Cofounder of Instagram was on H1B visa. 3. Jay Scaler - Founder of ZScaler an unicorn, was on H1B visa 4. Vinod Khosla - Founder of Sun Microsystems and well known VC was on H1B visa initially Will list down some more in some time.

foobarqux 11y ago
> 2. Kevin Systrom - Cofounder of Instagram was on H1B visa. I don't think that's correct.
- wayne 11y ago
  He probably meant the other cofounder Mike Krieger. http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-cofounder-mike-krieger-had-an-h1b-visa-problem-2015-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-cofounder-mike-krie...
roflchoppa 11y ago
fuck Vinod Khosla
- dang 11y ago
  Please don't do this here.
ausjke 11y ago
In fact H1B has to work for an employer and can not founder a company(at least easily or legally), you have to earn your permanent residence first, which takes quite a few years at least.
- serge2k 11y ago
  Yup. It's a shitty system that locks you in to working for other places for years.
- ropiku 11y ago
  Correct. Many don't come right away to make a startup, they work, get contacts&experience and then the startup appears.
aviwl 11y ago
By "Jay Scaler" do you mean Jay Chaudhry?
mtviewdave 11y ago
>Vinod Khosla - Founder of Sun Microsystems and well known VC was on H1B visa initially The H-1B visa was created in 1990. Khosla started working in the U.S. in 1980 after graduating from Stanford, and founded Sun in 1982. It seems doubtful he was ever on an H-1B.