This is an interesting tale. When I read these, and all the we should have an "entrepreneur visa" stories, I can't help but feel sorry for all the others who aren't as well educated and will never be able to hack our system.
This is true for everything in life. E.g. I became a permanent resident after winning the green card lottery. The process of getting together nearly five pounds worth of documents, spending thousands of dollars talking to lawyers in three different countries, reading enough legal jibberish to understand that the way the law works in the U.S. is always subject to interpretation and knowing what that interpretation actually is makes me very certain that if I had got the lottery at any other previous point in my life, I would never have made it. In fact, thousands of the "poor, unwashed masses" who this lottery is supposed to help make it easier for, never get in for stupid silly reasons.