Immigrant Founders: The Secret Sauce Behind America's Tech Giants

Some of America's most valuable companies were founded by individuals who immigrated to the US as students. Elon Musk, for example, lived in South Africa and Canada before studying physics at the University of Pennsylvania. The Collison brothers, founders of Stripe, moved from Ireland to attend MIT and Harvard respectively. Over half of America's billion-dollar startups have at least one immigrant founder; a quarter had a founder who arrived as a student.