Microsoft Layoffs, Immigration Blunders, & Office Hours with Jeremy Redman of Airfive | E2127

If we make it harder to get a visa to come build here and to hire here, we are literally handing the baton of technological leadership to places where those people would have come from. Like uh s US technology companies would not be as strong if so many Europeans weren't hopping United flights over from London and Paris. Not even just Europeans. I mean, you know, Indian people and people from China, China, all around the world. I was just thinking about a couple of the companies in particular, but to me, this is ceding our competitive advantage as the technology and startup capital of the world.

That is a mistake. That is stupid. A huge mistake. So I want more companies here. Yeah.

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