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Are top performing US students less likely to start companies and create jobs than international?

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1. No evidence but imo probably. Immigrants are by their nature entrepunerial go getters, thats how they got here.

2. Top performing US students arent being crowded out by international students anyway.

What about the first US child from a family of immigrants?

What about them? Competent domestic students are not being crowded out by international students. Competent domestic workers are not being crowded out by immigrants. The opposite is happening, immigrants create new opportunities for natives out of thin air. That doesnt mean that natives dont, they both do.

Was just curious how you thought they ranked compared to the others since you had an opinion

An interesting thought. I think parents who work to instill an entrepreneurial mindset into their children are more likely to end up with entrepreneurial minded children. Whether immigrants do that Im not sure. Maybe they want their kids to have an easier/simpler life than they did

Objectively yes.

Immigrants make up 14% of the population but start more than 20% of businesses.

44% of fortune 500 companies are founded by immigrants or their children. Steve Jobs' dad was a Syrian immigrant student. Elon Musk was on F1, J1, and H1B visa.

Yes. Look at the top ten tech companies. Their founders were foreign born and in cases where they weren’t they’re children of foreign born immigrants.

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