66% of Silicon Valley Tech Workforce are Foreign-Born
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-08-30
A discussion highlights that 66% of the tech workforce in Silicon Valley is foreign-born, with about 20% of NVIDIA's employees on H1B visas and 70% of AI graduate students being international. The argument posits that relying solely on American talent would lead to the decline of Silicon Valley and the US tech sector.
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