[timewarrior]

Did Facebook know that they will be worth 100s of billions when they started. Neither did Google.

Anyone who is net positive on the welfare system should be welcome to US. Even a company which makes a million dollar profit per year in 5 Years should be welcome.

[ricardonunez]

Exactly. Jessica Livingston mentioned in a video, many founders don't know for sure where things are headed in the beginning. It's hard to picture you are going to be a billion dollar company when you are starting.

[leereeves]

How would immigration officials recognize Facebook or Google among the millions of web sites that won't be successful?

[timewarrior]

Anyone who can create a startup should be allowed as long as they can pay themselves and their employees. If they employ more than 5 citizens/green card holders who are more than 50% of employees and have more than 0 profit for 3 years give them a green card. These company should build products and not provide services.

[leereeves]

Were Facebook or Google able to pay themselves and their employees a living wage before they got venture capital?

[timewarrior]

You gotta start somewhere. Right now the situation is an utter clusterf*! And if an Entrepreneur who is moving to US can't pay for food and lodging to himself and his employees - how are they gonna survive.