‘Lost four H-1B lotteries, quit Google’ — 2 years later, this techie has a Green Card and a company

A Nepal-born engineer once made a decision many would hesitate to take. He walked away from a nearly $300,000-a-year job at Google, all because of an immigration lottery that kept saying no. Two years later, he now has a green card and his own company.

My father gave up American dream, I didn’t

The story begins not with the founder, but with his father, a researcher who completed postdoctoral work at Harvard and Berkeley, only to abandon his American career to raise two young sons alone after a marriage ended. The family returned to Nepal, to a single room in a grandparent’s attic.