Sri Lankan-origin American billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya said he came to the country on the much-discussed, much-abused H-1B visa program at a time when there were no takers for the visa program. Speaking to the Axios Show, Palihapitiya said he also gets called out on social media as "part of the problem". "I came on an H1B visa. Elon came on an H1B visa. This is in the early 2000s. Why? Nobody was applying for these things. And who did you have? Forget about me, I'm irrelevant, but you had guys like him, you had these incredible scientists, Urs Hölzle that ends up with Google. These are giants," he said.
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