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American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by TechCapon(m): 8:20am On Jul 03, 2018 |
TechCapon As president Trump of the United States of America continues his onslaught against immigrants, rolling out tough policies all in a bid to discourage hard working immigrants from entering the country it’s important for him to be reminded that almost all the biggest and richest tech companies in America were founded by immigrants. He should however think of how it would have been if previous presidents had stopped the parents of this founders from entering the United States. It is worthy to note that most of these people came into the United States as poor people but today, they and their children helped built the US to what it become today. I have compiled a list of all the major tech companies whose founders are not originally from the United States but were immigrants from other countries. These companies would not have existed in the United States without immigrants. These founders have called on the US to keep it’s doors wide open to immigrants. Maybe Trump should see this list and have a rethink. 1. Amazon : Founder Jeff Bezos whose father Mike Bezos was a Cuban immigrant. Today he’s the world’s richest man. 2. Apple : Founder Steve Jobs’s biological father is Abdulfattah Jandali, grew up in Syria and studied in Lebanon before moving to U.S. 3. Google: Co-founder Sergey Brin was Born in Russia but moved to Maryland. He is already joining other immigrants to protest against Trump policy. 4. Facebook: Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s grand parents are from Poland and Germany, his wife’s parents were refugees from China and Vietnam. 5. Facebook: Co-founder Eduardo Saverin is originally from Brazil. He’s also an immigrant 6. Uber: CEO Dara Khosrowshani is an Iranian immigrant who came to the US at the age of 9. Travis Kalanick is the founder and also an immigrant 7. Tesla/SpaceX : Founder Elon Musk is an ILLEGAL immigrant born in South Africa. Tesla is the world's leading electric car manufacturer. He’s also the co-founder of PayPal and has employed thousands of Americans. 15 Likes |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by TechCapon(m): 8:20am On Jul 03, 2018 |
TechCapon 8. Whatsapp: Founder Jan Koum is an Ukrainian immigrant who moved to the US with his mother at the age of 16. He later sold whatsapp to Zukerberg for a jaw-dropping, earth-quaking, rib-cracking amount of $19 billion. 9. Instagram: Co-Founder Mike Krieger is a Brazilian software engineer born in Sao Paulo who moved to California in 2004. He also sold Instagram to Zukerberg 18 months after its launch for $1 billion: $300 million in cash, the rest in Facebook stock. 10. YouTube: Steve Chen was born and raised in Taiwan, he later immigrated with his family to the US at the age of 15. Google later bought YouTube for $ 1.64 billion in stock. 11. Ebay: Pierre Omdiyar is an immigrant whose parents are from Iran. He founded eBay in 1995 and today he is the chairman and board member of the company. 12. SanDisk: Sanjay Mehrotra is the founder of the memory storage company. He is from India. 13. PayPal: Max Levchin is from Ukraine and he co-founded Paypal with another illegal immigrant Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. 14. Intel: Andrew Grove is a Hungarian-born survivor who escaped from Hungary and moved to the US at the age of 20. He’s the founder of Intel 15. Yahoo: Yes ! Jerry Yang, The founder of Yahoo is actually from Taiwan. The company has suffered a lot of misfortune in recent years but that doesn’t mean we should throw him away. He deserves some accolades. 16. Qualcomm: Andrew Viterbi is an Italian born inventor and electrical engineer. All the big smartphone makers in the world including Samsung uses Qualcomms’s powerful chips. SOURCE:http://techcapon.com/amazing-list-of-top-american-tech-companies-founded-by-immigrants/ 24 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by MANNABBQGRILLS: 8:21am On Jul 03, 2018 |
AMERICA: A country for all. 57 Likes 1 Share |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by MANNABBQGRILLS: 8:21am On Jul 03, 2018 |
GOD'S OWN COUNTRY. This is so educative. Thanks OP. 65 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by TechCapon(m): 8:23am On Jul 03, 2018 |
post=69036599:you're most welcome 16 Likes |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by hisgrace090: 8:55am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Underrate no one. No one knows where the help will come from. 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by holicalpha(m): 11:05am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Booking |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by IgbosNIGHTMARE: 11:05am On Jul 03, 2018 |
ME FOUNDER OF NCAN _ LAGOS CHAPTER 15 Likes |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by EasterDell: 11:05am On Jul 03, 2018 |
NL should stop promoting a false narrative! . . . Trump is battling illegal immigrants! That's the right thing any sensible government should do. If you want to enter America, do the right thing! Get your papers in tact! All these examples are people that properly and legally entered the US. People want America to become like one lawless giant of Africa who's opposition can easily import bandits from Libya to kill people at will and go Scot free! Rubbish! 108 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by dreamwords: 11:06am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Skull trappers association of Nigeria wont like this |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by neweraomo: 11:06am On Jul 03, 2018 |
No Nigerian what about them developers? 3 Likes |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by Nobody: 11:06am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Fake list. How are one and 2 immigrants 'a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country' immigrant |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by lilfreezy: 11:07am On Jul 03, 2018 |
neweraomo: Haven't you heard about... 17. Olayinka kolawole - founder of wire wire fraudtech company and skull minining industries INC 36 Likes 1 Share |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by MrAnele(m): 11:07am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Hmmm |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by ANSMEDIA: 11:07am On Jul 03, 2018 |
It is not so true. Because all those people made it because they were in America where government provided all the enabling environment and infrastructures. With the persistent power outage in Nigeria tell me how such exploits could have been possible. #America is more or less responsible for their success. GOD BLESS America 27 Likes |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by Nobody: 11:07am On Jul 03, 2018 |
USA is a country of immigrants. Even Trump's ancestors were/are immigrants. 7 Likes |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by BIXYBABE: 11:08am On Jul 03, 2018 |
ok |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by xwin(m): 11:08am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Wow, I see hope! |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by flex04(m): 11:08am On Jul 03, 2018 |
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Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by banty: 11:08am On Jul 03, 2018 |
#1 |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by LadyExcellency: 11:09am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Fake News about Trump has reached Nairaland. For your automatic citizenship invest billions and Trump will say "yes" moreover Trump appreciates immigrants but it must be merit based or genuine asylum seeker. How does merit based immigration synonymous to discouraging hardworking immigrants from entering US legally? Op na was for you. 17 Likes |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by wandeay: 11:09am On Jul 03, 2018 |
I'll soon join the list |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by DuBLINGreenb(m): 11:10am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Why is this on NL are we Americans? |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by Tokziby: 11:10am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Let Trump deport all these immigrants and revoke their citizenship then we'll know whats left of America... The real owners of America are red Indians... every other person in America are immigrants... Hence, Mr. Trump open ur doors let us enter cos ur parents were once immigrants... Also my great grand fathers, father's sister's uncle was among the people that those Europeans took as slaves to America and i want to come and visit his tomb to pay my last respect 9 Likes |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by myners007: 11:10am On Jul 03, 2018 |
I was hoping to see someone of Nigeria descent on the list 1 Like |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by showafrica(m): 11:12am On Jul 03, 2018 |
A lot are yet to be found.. |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by maxiuc(m): 11:12am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by Nobody: 11:12am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Boko haram founded by north Fulani herdsmen - all the land in Nigeria belongs to us also north we are fighting corruption - buhari- north the death in plateau is small to that of zamfara- north Abacha didn't steal anymore but we will share Abacha loot to poor nigerians- north an attack on Boko haram is an attack on north we are technically in recession-SW/north The oil in bayelsa belongs to us- north the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable-north Founded anything - no... 11 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: American Tech Companies Founded By Immigrants (See List) by tolexy007(m): 11:14am On Jul 03, 2018 |
Trump is only against illegal immigrants and terrorist sponsor country 11 Likes 1 Share |
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