> In a study by the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan think tank based in Arlington, VA, it was shared that immigrants founded 51 percent

> In a study by the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan think tank based in Arlington, VA, it was shared that immigrants founded 51 percent (44 out of 87) of U.S. billion-dollar startups and are key members in more than 70 percent (62 out of 87) of these companies. I do so dislike that study. Three months ago, when we discussed it here on HN, I gave some criticism at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11310031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11310031 . In short, the numbers don't give you enough information to be meaningful. For example, if there are 20 founders and key members per company, then if each company had 1 immigrant founder who was also a key member, then 100% of the companies would have immigrant founders/key members, even if they only made up 5% of the population, which is under what you would expect given the amount of immigration in the US. Many companies have multiple founders, and all have multiple key members, so the statistics they give have a built-in bias that emphasizes immigrant contributions. In the comment I tried to figure out the population statistics, rather than the "at least one in the company" statistics. That data wasn't available in their report, and I couldn't reproduce the numbers in the report, so I made a rough estimate myself. I estimated that 28% of founders are immigrants, which is rather less than the "51%" and "70%" numbers from the report.