alt Hacker NewsThe visa that would correlate to this is the O-1 visa
20k O-1 visas were issued last FY which was mostly under the Trump admin, up from 19.5k the previous FY under the Biden admin
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arjie • yesterday at 7:56 PM
This is why VC is actually hard. Everyone’s instinct is always “Man, once the company has demonstrated it’s awesome I would love to have been in the seed round”. The tendency to want “proven performers” is the default belief.
When people demonstrate their capability thoroughly, the Chinese government takes away their passports. You’re not exactly going to get them here with an O-1.
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dbbk • yesterday at 8:42 PM
The O-1 has also been abused for a long time, basically any software engineer kid who gets into Y Combinator has been getting an O-1
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No it is H-1B visa. Right out of the university it is hard to recognize extraordinary talent. People like Sundar Pichai were not recognized as extraordinary right out of the university, he had to start at the bottom and rise up the ranks.