In Reply to: Sadly, this is real posted by mh on September 24, 2025 at 10:17:23
Here across the pond, many founders and policy makers hope making it harder for highly skilled talent to come to the United States will make it easier for companies elsewhere to recruit them.
“Trump has handed the UK an unprecedented opportunity,” Barney Hussey-Yeo, founder of British AI unicorn Cleo, told European startup news site Sifted.
“Since the H-1B turmoil this weekend, I’ve had over 1,000 direct messages from highly skilled professionals considering leaving the US, computer science graduates from the world’s top universities now working at elite tech companies,” he added. “The calibre is exceptional.”
Apparently, he’s not alone in this talent windfall. Ross McNairn, founder of Scotland-based AI startup Wordsmith also reported “a big surge in applicants at the top of our funnel who were in the process for US companies, who are now expanding their search more widely.”