FULLY A THIRD OF VENTURE-BACKED COMPANIES THAT WENT PUBLIC BETWEEN 2006 AND 2012 HAD AT LEAST ONE IMMIGRANT FOUNDER AT THE HELM. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON AND OTHER PROMINENT ENTREPRENEURS ON WHY THE U.S. NEEDS TO GET CREATIVE ABOUT IMMIGRATION POLICY.
What do Google’s Sergey Brin, eBay’s Pierre Omidyar, and Tesla Motors’s Elon Musk all have in common? Each of these serial entrepreneurs who founded companies that have market caps in the tens or hundreds of billions--employing tens of thousands of workers--were born outside the U.S. From Yahoo to Facebook and LinkedIn, each of these innovative companies that have played such a large role in the U.S. economy had at least one founder that was born abroad and then emigrated to the United States.
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