After months of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) processing and likely several thousand dollars, you or your family member has received “lawful permanent resident status” or a “green card.” This is the immigration equivalent of a “golden ticket” because it means two very important things: You can live and work in the U.S. without regard…
Editor’s note: Max Levchin is the CEO of Affirm, co-founder of PayPal, Chairman of Yelp & Glow, and Director at Yahoo and Evernote. We often hear that America is a nation of immigrants, but some members of Congress have forgotten the simple truth – immigration is our country’s single greatest competitive advantage in a growing global…
Napster founder Sean Parker and a group of major players in the Silicon Valley tech scene have launched a new “ideas laboratory and advocacy organization” called the Economic Innovation Group in Washington, D.C. to promote the kind of agenda in Congress that the entrepreneurs backing the group have been pushing for for a while, with…
A new bipartisan think tank with a focus on creating better opportunities for startups and small businesses is launching in Washington, D.C. today with backing from Silicon Valley. Sean Parker, Ron Conway and other well-known tech figures have aligned themselves with several academics and Washington policymakers to form the Economic Innovation Group (EIG). This is…