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Comment by jgalentine007 | Hacker News Reader

It's almost like it's easier to start your own company than to get hired at one of these places and actually be happy.

Starting your own company is easy for sure! Starting your own successful company is something else, and I found it much harder than getting into FANG, but it requires very different skills and I'm sure some people are better at the former.

True, even in countries with high burocracy like Germany starting a company isn't more difficult than doing a tax declaration.

One more option is to do freelance though, that's somehow a mix of both worlds.

Maybe it's not easier, but I feel that for some it could be a great motivator after certain age...

If you have the privilege, then yeah absolutely.

Haha, "privilege"? There are immigrants fresh off the boat who don't speak english that own their own companies. What's your excuse?

Yeah, 20 years ago. Now the landscape has changed massively. The only minorities today who can start a new company, that makes them more money than a job at a FAANG company, are women.

Do you have numbers to back that up?

> There are immigrants fresh off the boat who don't speak english that own their own companies.

> Do you have numbers to back that up?

If you want me to look up the actual numbers, I can, but are you really suggesting that there isn't a single immigrant company owner in the US?

> immigrants fresh off the boat who don't speak english that own their own companies

Do you have a single example of this ?

Immigrant here, and I can read, write & speak english.

If i don't have a job with a company willing to sponsor my visa I would have to get back on the boat and leave.

My friends, who are from smaller countries have the privilege but I do not.

Stats from travel.state.gov

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Immigr...

    Waiting list size by country
    Country             Applicants
    Mexico              1,229,505
    Philippines         314,229
    India               298,571
    Vietnam             231,519
    China-mainland born 231,519
    Bangladesh          169,231
    Dominican Republic  146,160
    Pakistan            115,625
    Haiti               94,506
    El Salvador         64,868
    Cuba                55,847
    All Others          840,393
    Worldwide Total     3,791,973

yes!

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