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Good studies must discuss denominators as well as numerators. The 51% is misleading. What would be important to know is how many immigrants were founders with
by davidf18 10y ago
Good studies must discuss denominators as well as numerators. The 51% is misleading. What would be important to know is how many immigrants were founders with a denominator of how many founders were there.
Moreover, there is some (wrong) assumption that an American could not have been a founder in place of the immigrant founders of a similar company.
H1-B visas were created for the intent of not displacing Americans but rather filing jobs for which Americans do not have the skill.
Americans have skills for almost all of the jobs that are filled with H1-B visas. There should be a independent committee that verifies that there are absolutely no Americans available for each individual job.
- basseq 10y agoThe 51% is misleading. What would be important to know is how many immigrants were founders with a denominator of how many founders were there. The statistic here is: "51% of unicorns had at least one founder who was born in another country". Palantir, for example, is included as an "immigrant-founded company", which it is, but Peter Thiel (Germany) is one of five co-founders. So with a subset of one company, only 20% of founders were immigrants.