Brad Gerstner
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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?
So seeing a precipitous drop.
Right, so have you seen this?
You're paying attention to both markets.
Do you see this?
And what are the things we need to do in order to reverse that?
I think of it a bit like the Warriors.
If they have an advantage of recruiting all the best players in the NBA, then they can continue to win championships.