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It always is. Year after year thousands of bright young minds just come to the valley to build and innovate. Just look at Musk, it was either PayPal or militar

• heavyset_go 5y ago
  > Year after year thousands of bright young minds just come to the valley to build and innovate. The US requires immigrants to hold college degrees if they want work visas to work in SV.
  • rrdharan 5y ago
    Well not exactly, you get 12 months of work on an F1 student visa (meaning you don’t have to already “hold” the degree).
• nnoitra 5y ago
  Not sure if sarcastic. Immigration to US is incredibly difficult.
  • 908B64B197 5y ago
    Not that hard if someone is qualified; thousands do it every year.
    • fomine3 5y ago
      We're talking about for who isn't qualified.
    • vbezhenar 5y ago
      Thousands from billions.
• tester756 5y ago
  >Just look at Musk, it was either PayPal or military service during Apartheid... weren't his parent relatively rich, which makes going to the other country, especially US kinda easier?
• 2143 5y ago
  > Just look at Musk Not a good example. You make it sound like he was being persecuted back in South Africa, which is not true. Musk was from a wealthy family. And he actually went to Canada first. (Don't get me wrong — I think it's a good thing for the world that Musk ended up in America). A better example to make your point would have been Andrew Grove. He had a horrible early life in eastern Europe during the Nazi WW2 era before he made his way to America. And he was one of first employees at Intel, and eventually became CEO. See how that literally ties in with going to "Silicon" valley? :)