JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES (BRIN); KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES (MUSK);
NOAH BERGER/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES (KHOSLA)
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DRAIN
to a report earlier this year by the
Partnership for a New American
Economy. And their companies
have produced sizable economic
benefits. This year, engineering and technology companies
founded in the United States employed about 560,000 workers
and generated $63 billion in sales,
according to Wadhwa. About a
quarter of those companies had at
least one foreign-born founder.
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An estimated three out of every four startups fail, if not more.
But by the conventional wisdom
of Silicon Valley, Darash’s chances
were even slimmer. For one, he
does not have a co-founder. He
insists he doesn’t need one. (Paul
Graham, creator of the startup
incubator Y Combinator, has said
having a co-founder is critical
because “a startup is too much
for one person to bear.”) Darash
also never worked for a major tech
company before, so he did not
have the network of contacts that
Left to right:
Google coFounder
Sergey Brin,
co -founder
of Paypal and
Tesla Elon
Musk and
Vinod Khosla,