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Chamath on H1-B visa: There's a lot of people that look at me and say 'That guy is part of the problem' you can see it in the comments on X." "I came on an H1B visa. Elon came on an H1B visa, okay? This is in the early 2000s. Why? Nobody was applying for these things. And who did you have? Forget about me, I'm relevant, but you had guys like him, you had these incredible scientists, Urs Hölzle that ends up at Google. These are giants, okay?" "What's happening now, for the last 15 or 20 years, you have farms of applications. 20,000 slots open up, so you can't stipulate abuse because what that means is so overwhelming that the next Elon or Urs Hölzle was already gone. I sure as shit would never say that the program works today." "So I think it's fair to say two things. We can stipulate the following two things: Immigration is really good. We should be attracting the best. But we should also make it fair for the best who have, for the last five years, been blocked because a handful of companies have abused this system. You need to stop and fix it so that you can reestablish trust with the American population at large. There's a lot of people that look at me and say, 'That guy's part of the problem.' You can see it in the comments on X. And I'm like, 'Wow, me?'" "No, I think that's because they see the abuses on the ground. They see the people that show up and they're like, 'This person is not smarter than me. All I can see is wage suppression.' We have a responsibility to the people who are working and paying into the system to answer their questions honestly. You can't stipulate and ignore it. You can't. Sometimes you gotta say, 'You know what? That was gross abuse.'"