One thing I didn't notice before is that the founders visa idea (however implemented) has the huge advantage of being testable. Startups whose founders got in o

One thing I didn't notice before is that the founders visa idea (however implemented) has the huge advantage of being testable. Startups whose founders got in on such visas would be easy to track. Any big successes that resulted would become prominently associated with the visa program. This would provide political cover against the sort of attacks that are perenially made against H1-Bs and so on. One new Google might even eliminate the controversy permanently. (Admittedly it would be hard to prove that the founders wouldn't have gotten in some other way. But I'm not sure that matters.)