Showing posts with label immigration and innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration and innovation. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Immigrants Founded Many Famous U.S. Companies

Whenever anti-immigrant sentiment arises--almost always during a recession--I wonder how people can forget the jobs and inventions immigrants have given to America:

http://www.smartmoney.com/investing/stocks/10-companies-founded-by-immigrants

If you've ever used eBay, Google, or almost any technology company's products, chances are, you are benefiting from an immigrant's work. Even Steve Jobs is ethnically part-Egyptian.

More on immigration here, where I wrote, "Being anti-immigration seems like another case of cutting your nose to spite your face--at the end of the day, you just hurt yourself."

Bonus: from Palo Alto's Sutter Hill Ventures, an article titled, "America’s Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration."