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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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Felipe grew up in Brazil. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

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John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. Thanks, guys! Plus he likes Legos. Thanks, Chris! Thanks, Adriano!

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