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by ChuckMcM 4403 days ago
He makes an interesting claim, that immigration policy is doing more harm to American jobs than helping them. That said, having discovered that the team in Columbia is performing well, he's worked around the situation.

Unfortunately, hiring is just one piece of many puzzles that have to be solved when building your business. In 3 to 5 years, or at his first big 'liquidity' event (acquisition or what ever), where he switches over from 'startup' to 'S&P 500 material', that is when the other externalities of these decisions will be visible, in the future looking back. At that time, and that will be a good data point going forward. The cautionary tale is to let a decision that is working for you now define its total value. Business decisions have very long tails that stretch into the future.