{"id":1010724,"date":"2026-05-29T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010724"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:01:13","slug":"lost-four-h-1b-lotteries-quit-google-2-years-later-this-techie-has-a-green-card-and-a-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/lost-four-h-1b-lotteries-quit-google-2-years-later-this-techie-has-a-green-card-and-a-company\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lost four H-1B lotteries, quit Google\u2019 \u2014 2 years later, this techie has a Green Card and a company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>My father gave up American dream, I didn\u2019t <\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s attic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010744,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010724\/revisions\/1010744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}