More Than Half of America’s Billion-Dollar Startups Have Immigrant Founders

If it weren’t for immigrant entrepreneurs, many of America’s most valuable startups–names like Uber, WeWork, and SpaceX–would not exist.

Companies Find a New Allure in Going Private

It’s a tectonic shift: In three of the past six years, more tech companies (by total value) have fled the public markets—Sayonara, hectoring activist investors! Death to the tyranny of quarterly numbers! Begone, SEC reports!—than have gone public, according to M&A advisory firm Bulger Partners. Think about that. Till recently, the only thing more certain than a Ping-Pong table in a Silicon Valley office was the dream of cashing out in an IPO. Now? The shaky markets and pressures of being public have changed the equation.

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