Articles about xiao wang

Big Tech’s new hiring hurdle: Why bringing international talent to Seattle is now more expensive

New data from Seattle startup Boundless shows how H-1B visa reforms are favoring high-earners while creating a $100,000 barrier for startups and rural employers. Read More

Amid Trump immigration crackdown, Seattle startup Boundless acquires European competitor

Amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Seattle startup Boundless acquires a European competitor. Read More

‘Take things into your control’: Tips for immigrant entrepreneurs navigating the U.S. visa process

If it’s not hard enough to launch a tech startup, add to that navigating the U.S. immigration process — which… Read More

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How to be an ‘Uncommon Thinker’: What we learned profiling innovative leaders solving big problems

What does it take to create meaningful change in the modern world? A few ideas: Those are some of the… Read More

Uncommon Thinkers: Boundless CEO Xiao Wang on his quest to fix the immigration process

Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming… Read More

Vote for CEO of the Year: GeekWire Awards finalists find growth opportunities in uncertain times

Building and running a company is no easy task in the best of times, let alone amid the ongoing uncertainty… Read More

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Immigration and tech: New realities, old problems, and what’s at stake for the future

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: how the pandemic, politics, labor shortages, and the rise of remote work are impacting… Read More

Close connections and remote work: Investor in Seattle helped Ohio dad land at portfolio company

As a co-founder and managing director at Seattle venture capital firm Pioneer Square Labs, Ben Gilbert spends a lot of… Read More

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Leading a startup through the crisis: ‘We’ve just instantly transformed from peacetime to wartime’

For startup leaders accustomed to building their businesses in boom times, the economic impact from the COVID-19 pandemic goes beyond… Read More

Resilience and risk-taking: How the immigration experience shapes the path of foreign-born entrepreneurs

First- and second-generation immigrants make up only 27 percent of the U.S. population, yet more than half of the most… Read More

How can U.S. improve its immigration policy? We asked immigrant entrepreneurs and tech leaders

Seattle-area entrepreneur Mina Yoo has been in the United States since 1991, receiving a dual Ph.D. in sociology and business… Read More