No it is H-1B visa. Right out of the university it is hard to recognize extraordinary talent. People like Sundar Pichai were not recognized as extraordinary right out of the university, he had to start at the bottom and rise up the ranks.
replyThis makes even less sense, Trump admin has been here for 1 year, the implication here is a university grad on H1-B in January would become a world class researcher capable of building a frontier model in <18mo
replyMelania got a EB-1 "extraordinary ability" immigrant visa
replyTo be fair, that was clearly well deserved. Marrying Trump and then becoming first lady is definitely an extraordinary ability; I doubt I could have done it.
replyThis is why VC is actually hard. Everyone’s instinct is always “Man, once the company has demonstrated it’s awesome I would love to have been in the seed round”. The tendency to want “proven performers” is the default belief.
replyWhen people demonstrate their capability thoroughly, the Chinese government takes away their passports. You’re not exactly going to get them here with an O-1.
This admin and its policies on immigrant visas have been around for 1 year and Biden was famously pro immigration
replyThe O-1 has also been abused for a long time, basically any software engineer kid who gets into Y Combinator has been getting an O-1
replyThis is essentially the point of the visa, it feels wrong especially as YC drops standards and increases cohort sizes, but the same power laws that keep them winning also apply here in maximizing economic value of each O-1 approval
replyBasically of all visas O-1 is virtually guaranteed to have highly positive economic value
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