From Bloomberg, a great story about Mike Krieger, a native of Brazil and a graduate of Stanford in 2009. Upon graduation, he got a temporary work visa thru a job at Meebo, a software startup. Meebo immediately applied for a H-1B visa on behalf of Krieger, hoping to keep him working in the US. The process wasn't an easy one, and took a year before he was granted one. Meanwhile, over the course of a few weeks, Krieger created a web app now known as Instagram, which he launched in April 2010. Two years later, he sold it to Facebook for $1 billion.
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