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In fact H1B has to work for an employer and can not founder a company(at least easily or legally), you have to earn your permanent residence first, which takes quite a few years at least.

Correct. Many don't come right away to make a startup, they work, get contacts&experience and then the startup appears.

Yup.

It's a shitty system that locks you in to working for other places for years.

>Vinod Khosla - Founder of Sun Microsystems and well known VC was on H1B visa initially

The H-1B visa was created in 1990. Khosla started working in the U.S. in 1980 after graduating from Stanford, and founded Sun in 1982. It seems doubtful he was ever on an H-1B.

> 2. Kevin Systrom - Cofounder of Instagram was on H1B visa.

I don't think that's correct.

He probably meant the other cofounder Mike Krieger. http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-cofounder-mike-krie...

By "Jay Scaler" do you mean Jay Chaudhry?