• When Trump announced a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas on Friday, one startup cofounder wasn't concerned. • Shahriar Tajbakhsh told BI he's willing to pay the fee to hire the best talent at his AI company. • The company, founded in London, plans to continue to expand in the US in the coming months.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 34-year-old Shahriar Tajbakhsh, the CTO and cofounder of the AI recruitment platform Metaview, who lives between San Francisco and London. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

I woke up around 5:30 a.m. on Saturday in London and saw an email from lawyers with "urgent notice" in the subject line.

We had an employee who was supposed to enter the US in the coming days after their H-1B visa petition was approved earlier

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