Comment by lovich
1 month ago
> Many leading Silicon Valley companies that are still around today were founding back then.
Define “leading”, then tell me what companies are still around. I can think of two off the top of my head and one of them has an immigrant CEO.
> But the whole argument is disingenuous. The article is about mass immigration. Silicon Valley’s success has fuck all to do with the millions of immigrants that come in every year illegally or through family reunifications.
Ah, I’m done responding to you with this conflating illegal immigration with family reunification
> Define “leading”, then tell me what companies are still around. I can think of two off the top of my head and one of them has an immigrant CEO.
Intel, AMD, Apple, Cisco, and Oracle, all have above $200 billion market cap and were founded in the 1960s or 1970s.
Being CEO of an established company obviously is a much easier job than building one in the first instance.
> Ah, I’m done responding to you with this conflating illegal immigration with family reunification
They’re both immigration pathways where people aren’t filtered based on skills and credentials.