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Oh, look, yet another company founded by an immigrant.
by davidw 6y ago
Oh, look, yet another company founded by an immigrant.
- johnhenry 6y agoOh, look, yet another comment posted by an idiot.
- dang 6y agoPosting like this will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended. It doesn't look like you've been in the habit of breaking the guidelines, so that should be easy.
- johnhenry 6y agoI probably should have just flagged the initial comment.
- kovek 6y agoIs there some idea you'd like to share?
- davidw 6y agoImmigrants are a net positive for the economy!
- _nhynes 6y agoIndeed. A.S. G^2P was meant to chide the current administration for the (clearly very political) travel bans [0], temporary (??) suspension of visas (incl. H1-B) [1], and general racist isolationism. [0]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-immigrants-nonimmigrants-persons-pose-risk-transmitting-2019-novel-coronavirus/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation... [1]: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-s...
- ThomPete 6y agoFor what it's worth H1Bs were being misused by indian tech companies who got the majority of them [1] because the salary requirements haden't been updated for decades [2] That meant the ability to undercut american workers. I don't think there is anything racist about that. [1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/02/09/h-1b-visas-do-mainly-go-to-indian-outsourcing-firms https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/02/09/h-1b-visa... [2] https://alj.artrepreneur.com/h1b-visa-crackdown/#:~:text=Currently%2C%20to%20qualify%20for%20an,a%20minimum%20of%20%24130%2C000%20annually https://alj.artrepreneur.com/h1b-visa-crackdown/#:~:text=Cur....
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoRacist? I’m a white European - where do I sign up for my visa?
- dhosek 6y agoIn 1993, the California Republican Assembly (a conservative activist group chartered by the state party) passed a resolution declaring illegal immigration to be an economic positive for the state of California. A year later the party decided to go all-in on anti-immigration hysteria and paid for some disturbingly racist ads ("they keep coming"). This gave them short-term gains politically but by the 2010s the Republican party fell into permanent minority status with little prospect for even reaching the level to keep the democrats out of supermajority status in the near-term future.
- drocer88 6y agoRalph Abernathy and Walter Mondale supported Ceasar Chavez's marches to fight against illegal immigration. Ronald Reagan had no problems with using such strikebreakers
- knrz 6y agoAssuming positive intent, I think he meant “and that’s why we should encourage immigration”
- CameronNemo 6y agoSuch a charged issue should have been accompanied by a more thoughtful comment. davidw was begging for misinterpretation.
- texasbigdata 6y agoIt's a recycled idea from mary meeker. She appendixes immigrant founder lists to her internet report. It's very impressive and has some real societal implications (perhaps) for how we should address immigration policy.
- mdorazio 6y agoHere are the most recent 100 IPOs [1]. A quick look through the non-China focused ones is failing to show me that immigrants found eventual-IPO companies at a higher rate than you would expect from the general demographics. There's a bit of a misconception here that Tech is reflective of the economy as a whole (it isn't). [1] https://www.iposcoop.com/last-100-ipos/ https://www.iposcoop.com/last-100-ipos/
- briefcomment 6y agoHow do you know the founder is an immigrant? Edit: Founder is from South Africa, didn't see that in my initial search.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoI’m speculating that they looked at the name and made that assumption, which would be all kinds of problematic on its own.
- davidw 6y agoOr you could, you know, Google the person, rather than making assumptions based on their name.
- briefcomment 6y agoWhich person are you referring to as an immigrant? I haven't found anything suggesting Pierre is an immigrant yet.
- davidw 6y ago> Which person are you referring to as an immigrant? I haven't found anything suggesting Pierre is an immigrant yet. Pierre. That's because you didn't look hard enough, I guess? https://portcitydaily.com/local-news/2015/06/16/ncino-ceo-were-going-to-expand-locally/ https://portcitydaily.com/local-news/2015/06/16/ncino-ceo-we...
- briefcomment 6y agoYou're right, first several articles on DDG didn't mention he is from South Africa.
- briefcomment 6y agoI'm guessing the same. The co-founder/CEO went to Upper Iowa University. Could still be an immigrant, but seems unlikely.
- b34r 6y agoAnd?
- dang 6y agoI don't know why and when you decided to go to the dark side of ruining HN with unsubstantive political comments and flamebait, after something like a decade of being the leading HN user arguing against it, but it's really dismaying and we need you to stop. Please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- Der_Einzige 6y agoMaybe it's because this isn't actually political flamebait and you simply misevaluated the intent and effects of this post.
- dang 6y agoProvocative one liners on divisive topics are certainly flamebait.