Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders

Of these, half of the founders came to the US for university[1] (25% of all unicorns). That would be a pretty wealthy or non-representative group to begin with, since international tuition is very expensive, no? As a whole, immigrants have higher poverty rates in the US than native-born residents[2], which is also an interesting data point to juxtapose with this.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;stuartanderson&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;most-us-billion-dollar-startups-have-an-immigrant-founder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;stuartanderson&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;most-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irp.wisc.edu&#x2F;publications&#x2F;focus&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;foc262e.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irp.wisc.edu&#x2F;publications&#x2F;focus&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;foc262e.pdf</a>

This isn&#x27;t surprising to me since most of us upend our lives just to be in US, so we have more of an incentive to try harder to make it.

The US is only 5% of global population, so this suggests we&#x27;re leaving a lot of would-be unicorn founders on the table.

How many are h1b1?