The Silicon Valley Founder With a Pocket Full of Visas

The immigrant entrepreneur's road to Silicon Valley is paved with visas. And every one tells a tale. In the case of Purva Gupta, who is now the 29-year-old founder of Lily, a Palo Alto-based startup that's building an AI-driven fashion app, the precious US government documents weave a kind of personal epic. In the short three years she has been in the United States, Gupta has had six separate visas, each marking a different phase of her startup quest. Gupta's first visa came in 2013, when she moved to the US with her husband, who was getting an MBA at Yale.