PG is Right.

Paul Graham’s nail it on the essay about the founder’s visa proposal, it was not just brilliant, but it made a great tick with me personally. Like Reid Hoffman said “It’s the startups, stupid”. This would boost enormously the creation of jobs.

Being foreign at 23 years old, I’m from Mexico, and wanting to go to America in an almost zero budget, I cannot agree more with this. Because there are two types of people in this world: the entrepreneurs and those who do not, the employees.

So, if I have the ambition to create a great American company, that may be someday as big as Microsoft or Google, first I need to go an get a job there, wait years to get the green card or citizenship and then go to make the company. Why we need to get a job, if we can start making the company right away? This is a great restriction to innovation and also for aspiring entrepreneurs that will decide to stay home and create their companies there.

There is only one small problem with that. Why is the United States in most cases so attractive to aspiring potential entrepreneurs? Because of something called “American Dream”. Perhaps is the United States one of the few countries in the world, were a man or woman with great work ethic and intelligence can go as far as they want to go on their own merits. Creating a great big multinational company can be one.

Many Americans or so-called Americans had forgotten their roots. Had forgotten that the United States owe it’s economic power to immigrants. Fact is the United States should not be called the United States, it should be called United Immigrants. Immigrants made the United States, period, no doubt about that.

Now, congressmen are in the so-called “protecting the American jobs” attitude. While perhaps, may give them votes for future elections, that type of attitude would put the United States power in jeopardy in the near future. A powerful country is a country that has the best people to do the job. If they prefer to give the job to a mediocre American worker rather than an expert Indian worker, because we “Are protecting American jobs”, what would happen is that the Indian worker would go to India or other country and compete with the US, with a brighter mind against them.

What can keep the US as the #1 power in the world is having a policy towards having the best of the best. And it doesn’t matter were they come from. In the end, results is all that matter. Being the best is all that matters. And if that means raising the H-1B visas cap or creating a new type of visa for founders, congressmen should realize perhaps they owe their American citizenship to immigrants from all over the world that came back on the 18-19th century to realize their dreams to America. The future of the US as an economic power is in their hands.

Great entrepreneurs & individuals born outside the US: Andrew Carnegie (Scotland) Peter Thiel (Germany) Max Levchin (Ukraine) Vinod Khosla (India) Omid Kordestani (Iran) Sergey Brin (Russia) Jerry Yang (Taiwan) Steve Chen (Taiwan) John Kluge (Germany) Pierre Omidyar (France) George Soros (Hungary) Patrick Soon-Shiong (South Africa) Andrew Grove (Hungary) Steven Udvar-Hazy (Hungary) Andy Bechtolsheim (Germany) Jawed Karim (Germany) Tamir Sapir (Israel)

Haven’t they created jobs?

All US-born Americans had to realize they all have some connection to an immigrant in some way. The United States is a country made from Immigrants. They should be thankful to them.

Ambition, intelligence, creativity and determination have no boundaries.