Brad Gerstner

And I would also say...

It seems to me that certainly Sachs and other people in the administration know that we have to recruit the world's best and brightest.

We should not sacrifice the greatness of the brand.

Charging $100,000 or let's say it got lower to 50 or whatever the case is, it does seem like it tilts the playing field in favor of big companies who can effectively sponsor all these people.

And it's more challenging for the startup ecosystem where people are already super expensive.

No doubt.

And now I've got to pay this fee on top of it.

It's important to me, and the president talked about before, when he was running for office, he wanted to staple a green card to the, you know, to the diplomas of these STEM students.

So smart.

People coming to the United States from China AI researchers studying at Stanford.

Like, we want to keep them here.

We want to get, you know, and by the way,

If their families can't get here, they're going to leave after a few years.

So you might even want to make it easier for their families to come here and others.

Are you confident that we have a strategic plan in this administration?

You know, this is a start, but your conversations, they give you confidence that we have a broader strategic plan to make sure we're recruiting the best and the brightest?

Yeah.

I heard from a Chinese researcher leading one of our leading labs in the U.S.,

that three years ago, 90% of the top AI researchers graduating from universities in China wanted to come to the United States and did come to the United States to work in our leading labs.

And he guessed that today that's closer to 10 or 15%, right?