Will H-1B restrictions cost the US its next Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai?

For decades, the United States has relied on a steady influx of highly skilled international talent to fuel its technology sector. Engineers, researchers, and innovators from around the world have been central to the rise of Silicon Valley, driving breakthroughs from search engines to electric vehicles. But the recent decision by the Trump administration to hike the H-1B visa fee to $100,000 has sent shockwaves through global tech circles, raising urgent questions: Could restrictive immigration policies force the next generation of visionaries to build elsewhere? Billionaire investor Michael Moritz, whose early-stage investments in Google, PayPal, LinkedIn, and YouTube helped shape the modern internet, has been one of the loudest voices warning against the policy. Writing in the Fina