Trump's Immigration Ban : Tech Giant Company Founded by 'Immigrant'
So eventually I woke up and all the news feed I get is Trump, The 45th President of the United States, has giving an orders to ban 7 majority countries (who is mostly lived by moeslem) such as Syria, Iran, and Iraq entering the country (America). It is not even two weeks after He took the presidency and this unjustice orders came out.
As an Indonesia people, I also think "What can I do about this ?". I know that in our country the about same thing is also happening, the anti-non muslim also emerged as part of politician agenda to a chinese christian descendants. The court justice is on the way so it is too soon to judge wether he was wrong or not in front of law. I do have my own opinion but maybe I could write it later (I also want to hear your thought).
Lets move back again to America, the thing that I recognize first is that they are the tech giant. Silicon valley is famous all over the world, in Indonesia it is Slipi-con valley (as much Indonesia tech based company resided there like tokopedia, berrybenka, traveloka and so on). So eventually Trump executive order has affected these american tech company that (wether you are happy or not) were build by immigrant or the descendant of immigrant. Here are seven prominent company.
1. Elon Musk, Tesla/SpaceX (Revenue 4.05 billion USD)
Musk, who came to U.S. in his twenties after growing up in South Africa and studying in Canada. Since coming here, he has built not one, but two ground-breaking technology companies.
2. Sergey Brin, Google (Revenue 74.54 billion USD)
Born in the former Soviet Union, Brin moved to Maryland with his academic parents, who sought to escape the discrimination they faced as Jews. He grew up to co-found a certain search engine company. It's probably no coincidence Brin was spotted at immigration protests this weekend in San Francisco.
3. Alexis Ohanian, Reddit (Revenue 10 billion USD)
Known to many as "the front page of the Internet," Reddit has had a big role in defining culture and communities on the web. The site's Brooklyn-born founder is the son of a refugee who fled Armenia.
4. Jeff Bezos, Amazon (Revenue 107 billion USD)
Jeff Bezos takes his last name from the man who married his mother when he was a young child in New Mexico. That man, Mike Bezos, was an immigrant from Cuba.
5. Jerry Yang, Yahoo (Revenue 4.968 billion USD)
The company has been on hard times for years, so it's easy to forget Yahoo is one of three firms that symbolized the 1990s dot-com boom (Amazon and eBay are the others). Yang reportedly knew only one English word when he moved from Taiwan at the age of 12.
6. Pierre Omidyar, eBay (Revenue 8.59 billion USD)
Speaking of eBay, the founder of the famous auction site was born in Paris to two parents from Iran, one of the countries targeted by Trump's travel ban.
7. Steve Jobs, Apple (Revenue 215.6 billion USD)
Steve Jobs was raised by his adoptive family in California, including a mother who was the daughter of Armenian immigrants. The name of Jobs's biological father is Abdulfattah Jandali, who grew up in Syria and studied in Lebanon before moving to U.S.
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As President Trump excludes certain immigrants, it's worth asking what the U.S. will be losing. Is it possible the ban will lead the next great inventors of smartphones, search engines, and electric cars to start their companies somewhere else ? maybe Indonesia ?
source :
1. http://fortune.com/2017/01/30/tech-immigrant-founders/
2. *Companies revenue are data gathered from google either from 2016 or 2015 at latest
As an Indonesia people, I also think "What can I do about this ?". I know that in our country the about same thing is also happening, the anti-non muslim also emerged as part of politician agenda to a chinese christian descendants. The court justice is on the way so it is too soon to judge wether he was wrong or not in front of law. I do have my own opinion but maybe I could write it later (I also want to hear your thought).
Lets move back again to America, the thing that I recognize first is that they are the tech giant. Silicon valley is famous all over the world, in Indonesia it is Slipi-con valley (as much Indonesia tech based company resided there like tokopedia, berrybenka, traveloka and so on). So eventually Trump executive order has affected these american tech company that (wether you are happy or not) were build by immigrant or the descendant of immigrant. Here are seven prominent company.
1. Elon Musk, Tesla/SpaceX (Revenue 4.05 billion USD)
Musk, who came to U.S. in his twenties after growing up in South Africa and studying in Canada. Since coming here, he has built not one, but two ground-breaking technology companies.
2. Sergey Brin, Google (Revenue 74.54 billion USD)
Born in the former Soviet Union, Brin moved to Maryland with his academic parents, who sought to escape the discrimination they faced as Jews. He grew up to co-found a certain search engine company. It's probably no coincidence Brin was spotted at immigration protests this weekend in San Francisco.
3. Alexis Ohanian, Reddit (Revenue 10 billion USD)
Known to many as "the front page of the Internet," Reddit has had a big role in defining culture and communities on the web. The site's Brooklyn-born founder is the son of a refugee who fled Armenia.
4. Jeff Bezos, Amazon (Revenue 107 billion USD)
Jeff Bezos takes his last name from the man who married his mother when he was a young child in New Mexico. That man, Mike Bezos, was an immigrant from Cuba.
5. Jerry Yang, Yahoo (Revenue 4.968 billion USD)
The company has been on hard times for years, so it's easy to forget Yahoo is one of three firms that symbolized the 1990s dot-com boom (Amazon and eBay are the others). Yang reportedly knew only one English word when he moved from Taiwan at the age of 12.
6. Pierre Omidyar, eBay (Revenue 8.59 billion USD)
Speaking of eBay, the founder of the famous auction site was born in Paris to two parents from Iran, one of the countries targeted by Trump's travel ban.
7. Steve Jobs, Apple (Revenue 215.6 billion USD)
Steve Jobs was raised by his adoptive family in California, including a mother who was the daughter of Armenian immigrants. The name of Jobs's biological father is Abdulfattah Jandali, who grew up in Syria and studied in Lebanon before moving to U.S.
***
As President Trump excludes certain immigrants, it's worth asking what the U.S. will be losing. Is it possible the ban will lead the next great inventors of smartphones, search engines, and electric cars to start their companies somewhere else ? maybe Indonesia ?
source :
1. http://fortune.com/2017/01/30/tech-immigrant-founders/
2. *Companies revenue are data gathered from google either from 2016 or 2015 at latest
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