World American man reveals Indian CEO took over a firm, booted out founders, hired Indians. Post goes viral amid H1B visa debate

[Bagheera0084]

Date of Event: Dec 29, 2024 Source : https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/american-man-reveals-indian-ceo-took-over-a-firm-booted-out-founders-hired-indians-post-goes-viral-amid-h1b-visa-debate/articleshow/116730663.cms

American man reveals Indian CEO took over a firm, booted out founders, hired Indians. Post goes viral amid H1B visa debate

By ET Online
Last Updated: Dec 29, 2024,
10:36:00 AM IST

Synopsis

Debates about Indian immigrants in the U.S. tech sector surged after a viral post by a U.S. attorney. The post accused an Indian CEO of mismanagement, ousting founders, and replacing top executives with Indians, sparking heated social media discussions about workplace practices, equity, and cultural dynamics in corporate America.

According to the allegations, the CEO ousted the company’s original founders and replaced key leadership positions with a C-suite dominated by Indian professionals.

The ongoing discourse surrounding Indian immigrants, particularly those in the technology sector within the United States, has intensified following a viral post by a U.S. attorney. This post, which has sparked heated debates across social media platforms, accused an Indian CEO of mismanaging a company, displacing its founders, and reshaping its leadership team predominantly with Indian executives.

The attorney’s post detailed claims against the CEO, who allegedly took over a company acquired by a private equity firm. According to the allegations, the CEO ousted the company’s original founders and replaced key leadership positions with a C-suite dominated by Indian professionals. Additionally, the attorney asserted that the CEO leveraged the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to implement a 10% temporary pay reduction for employees and halted all promotions.

Further accusations included the CEO’s decision to lay off 15% of the workforce, targeting experienced employees, and shutting down a satellite office. The attorney claimed the associated work was outsourced to India, which reportedly disrupted the company’s culture, decreased client satisfaction, and increased the workload for remaining employees.

Netizens React

The post, since its publication, has amassed over 8 million views and sparked widespread discussions. Many users on X (formerly Twitter) shared their personal experiences, alleging similar practices by Indian executives in high-ranking positions. These anecdotes highlighted concerns about biased hiring practices and job losses among American employees, further fueling the ongoing debate about immigration and workplace equity in the tech industry.

This incident underscores the complexities of immigration dynamics, corporate governance, and diversity in the workplace, offering a lens through which broader issues of inclusion and fairness are being scrutinized in professional environments.

“My ex worked for IBM and they would send employees to India to train their replacements,” revealed one X user.

“Same thing happened at my company. The Indian CEO came in and overnight basically all of the US and European middle management was nuked. The office in India got 5 times bigger. All the talent left was pulling their hair out trying to explain how everything works to the new teams. Who then proceeded to implement 'improvements' that pushed their work back to Europe and made everything easier for them? The European teams are still delivering everything but it's harder now,” lamented another.

Another user revealed how in his hometown, an Indian immigrant came and purchased a gas station and fired 10–15 employees, replacing them with family members.

https://m.economictimes.com/magazin...mid-h1b-visa-debate/articleshow/116730663.cms

 

[Vsdoc]

I'd bet a year's earnings he was a Mallu.

 

[Sharma Ji]

And I'll bet, Mallu or not, that he made srs bank on the side sneaking this lot in.

Immigration goldmine > other frauds

 

[Sharma Ji]

Sajjad Izlamozhi Podrukulahh.

I bet they make a mean beef fry at his place

Flaky maida porotta too

 

[Bagheera0084]

‘I’m employed because an Indian immigrant’: American executive thanks Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas for job creation

By Sanya Jain
Dec 27, 2024 05:24 PM IST

A senior executive at Perplexity AI thanked Indian-origin CEO Aravind Srinivas for creating jobs in the United States.

A senior executive at Perplexity AI thanked Indian-origin CEO Aravind Srinivas for creating jobs in the United States, indirectly voicing his support for Sriram Krishnan in the process. Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity AI, identified himself as an American who is gainfully employed because of an Indian immigrant. His post came amid a raging debate on immigration in the US.

First, some context

Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of American AI firm Perplexity.

Indian-origin Sriram Krishnan, chosen as Senior White House Policy Advisor for AI by Donald Trump, became the target of online hate earlier this week after a number of far-right voices asked whether an Indian immigrant could be expected to promote American interests. Most prominent among his critics was Laura Loomer, a far-right political activist who suggested that Krishnan would use his influence to open up immigration for more Indians.

In a series of vitriol-filled social media posts, Loomer voiced her strong opposition to the continued use and expansion of H1B visas, which allows highly skilled workers to live and work in the US, as well as the issuance of green cards to immigrants.

“Our country was built by white Europeans, actually. Not third-world invaders from India,” she wrote.

Her views found support from a section of the internet which felt that immigrants from other countries were taking away jobs meant for Americans, especially in STEM occupations.

Support for Indian immigrants

Amid this discussion on American jobs, Krishnan – now an American citizen – and other Indian immigrants found support from various quarters, directly and indirectly. Among those who supported skilled immigration was Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity AI.

Shevelenko noted that he was employed by a company that was founded by an Indian worker on a visa.

“I’m an American who is gainfully employed because an Indian immigrant on a visa founded a company in the US. Thx Aravind Srinivas for creating 100+ American jobs,” Shevelenko wrote on X.

Perplexity AI is a conversational search engine that was founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas, Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho. Chennai-born Srinivas serves as the company’s CEO. He studied at IIT Madras and worked at OpenAI before launching his own company, which today has over a 100 employees based in the US.

Despite having lived in the US for several years, Srinivas still works on a visa. He recently tweeted saying he should get a green card and found support from Elon Musk.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/tren...vas-for-job-creation-101735188531259-amp.html

 

[Bagheera0084]

Sajjad Izlamozhi Podrukulahh.

I bet they make a mean beef fry at his place

Flaky maida porotta too

I have seen many Mallu restaurateurs make paratha. But wasn't paratha originally Northy dish?

 

[Sharma Ji]

I have seen many Mallu restaurateurs make paratha. But wasn't paratha originally Northy dish?

North does Atta, south make with maida

 

[Bagheera0084]

How the Vietnam War helped more Indian doctors migrate to the US in 1970s

In 'Indian Genius', Meenakshi Ahamed provides fascinating portraits of Indian Americans who started the wave of success stories abroad.

Meenakshi Ahamed
28 December, 2024 12:00 pm IST

Representational image | A severe doctor shortage arose in the US as the army drained away medical graduates, necessitating doctors from overseas to fill the gap | Wikimedia Commons

When Deepak Chopra, who today is internationally recognized as one of the leaders of the integrative approach to medicine, arrived in New Jersey in 1970 fresh out of medical school in India, he got a firsthand introduction to the situation. “When I walked into the ER for my first shift,” he recalled, “the doctors who showed me my locker and gave me a tour of the acute facilities were not Americans.

There was one German, but the rest had Asian faces like mine, from India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Korea… What had brought so many foreign doctors together was the Vietnam War. A severe doctor shortage had arisen as the army drained away medical graduates while other young men, who might have wanted to become doctors, were drafted to fight.”

War had added an additional layer of stress on the health care system. During the Vietnam War, the shortage of men in the labor force had become a cause for concern. More than 9 million Americans—mostly men—served on active duty between 1961 and 1975.

Medical personnel were needed in the war effort, adding to the shortage of available doctors for civilians. Thanks to advances in medical care on the frontlines, many more soldiers were surviving their injuries. Seventy-five thousand severely disabled veterans returned to the United States, many of whom would need years of continuing care, increasing the pressure on an already overwhelmed health care system.

Europe no longer supplied qualified doctors looking for overseas opportunities; they had plenty of jobs at home. In the forties and fifties, Indians still considered the U.K. as the place to go for higher education, but by the sixties it had lost ground to America. There was a class of research-oriented doctors in India that had reached the limit of the resources that Indian institutions had to offer. They had no choice but to come to the West if they wished to pursue their studies.

As Dr. Bibhuthi Mishra, an Indian physician recalled, “I left India after doing a specialization in internal medicine. I wanted to do work in molecular biology in DNA and immunology and although there were a few labs in India, only one was doing advanced work of an international standard and they didn’t take students. The money being spent on biological research in India in 1981 was pitiful. Many of my friends in the field who were gifted were leaving. The first place I went to was London, but there was no comparison to the United States where substantial investments in medicine and biological research were being made ever since Nixon began the Cancer Institute. The U.K. funding was limited unless you were at the top institutions. I was working on a research paper, but a group in the United States overtook me. The lab in the United States was like a palace compared to India. I wanted to pursue the work I was trained to do, so I moved to the United States Today, India has caught up, but in the eighties, there was no choice really.”

The United States had become the number-one destination for Indian graduates in STEM fields, but there were other reasons why America was such an attractive destination. It was a country of immigrants and a more welcoming environment for immigrants from India. Sanjiv Chopra, who rose to become a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, followed his older brother, Deepak to Boston in the seventies.

He observed, “Our father’s generation had gone to England to complete their training, but they had encountered a British ceiling. Indian doctors in England were allowed to rise to only a certain level, and when they returned to India they were behind their classmates in seniority and only rarely caught up… When people asked us what our plans were when we finished medical school, America was the obvious answer.”

Initially, some Indian-trained doctors had gone to the U.K., but the attraction of opportunities in the United States convinced many of them to move.

The most pressing need for doctors in the United States was among its most run-down or underserved populations, who resided primarily in cities or in rural areas like Appalachia. The 1960s saw a precipitous decline in urban areas of its wealthier, white population who were leaving en masse for the suburbs. This left urban areas with a lower tax base and far fewer resources as businesses followed suit and urban decay set in.

The shift to the suburbs had been facilitated by the massive highway-building program undertaken by the government after World War II, which had the ancillary benefit of making it easier for people to commute. The I bill had created opportunities for its white beneficiaries,63 and the relocation of businesses outside of urban centers had extended communities outwards. The migration of African American Southerners to the North that increased during this period combined with desegregation and the race riots in the sixties, contributed to what was called “white flight”—the white population moving out of cities in droves.

Wealthy, well-resourced hospitals moved with their clients to the suburbs, the preferred place for many doctors to practice. It was not easy for a hospital in downtown Newark or Detroit, still burning from the race riots, to attract a well-to-do white graduate of Harvard Medical School to practice there.

https://theprint.in/pageturner/how-vietnam-war-helped-indian-doctors-migrate-us-1970s/2420941/

 

[Bagheera0084]

Folks,

Just zoom in and look at their beautiful smiles.. So cute.. So sweet..!!

 

[Krishna with Flute]

After appointment of Shri Ramkrishna SD advisor of artificial intelligence domain of United States a debate has sparkled in US regarding the Indians taking over the America and American affairs. Some industrialist have said that country wise restriction on hH1b visa should go, so that in limitation of the quota, they can recruit maximum number of Indians. On the other hand, many American say that Indians are taking their job, but the innovators like Electronic n Mask say that they want innovator who can bring something new to the table in the front of technology, so that they want maximum Indians from IIT and engineering colleges of India. On being appointed Shri Krishna, in highest positions of us debate has started. Donald Trump is very much in the favour of retaining Indians not only those who are in service but also retaining the India students who come there for study so that they can live in US and build US, while one local lobby is totally against the Indians in fact they are envy of Indians occupying highest positions in all corporates and all other institutions of excellence of US. Let us see where this goes and where it ends but one thing is very clear that this hyper brilliant students and innovators has a very little place in India to make the dream come true. I think India need some visionary guy who has the vision to take India forward much head of any other country including US but Modi lacks that vision.This lack of vision is restricting this unfortunate country who is troubling to regain is past glory and nothing seems to have been done in that front. World don't want India to be strong and prosperous but unfortunately the traitor politicians of India are using the Liberty this country has given to them to pull back country and its progress to ensure and ensure that it doesn't progress as per its potential. Many of them like Traitor Rahul Gandhi are on the payroll of the state and person like your sorose. it is a very dark dark situation. I hope something will workout

 

[India?]

 

[India?]

@Jiangnan

 

[Guru Dutt]

well an economy controlled by DEEP STATE which made its complete dominence after 2021 when it bought all major legacy corporates in so called Hostile takeovers is calling for against Indian immigrants hostile take overs 😉 😛

 

[Krishna with Flute]

@Jiangnan

That is why Japan is a rare country with negative GDP growth rate and economy is sinking. From second position in the world, it has reached to forth position and set to become fifth.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

American man reveals Indian CEO took over a firm, booted out founders, hired Indians. Post goes viral amid H1B visa debate

By ET Online
Last Updated: Dec 29, 2024,
10:36:00 AM IST

Synopsis

Debates about Indian immigrants in the U.S. tech sector surged after a viral post by a U.S. attorney. The post accused an Indian CEO of mismanagement, ousting founders, and replacing top executives with Indians, sparking heated social media discussions about workplace practices, equity, and cultural dynamics in corporate America.

According to the allegations, the CEO ousted the company’s original founders and replaced key leadership positions with a C-suite dominated by Indian professionals.

The ongoing discourse surrounding Indian immigrants, particularly those in the technology sector within the United States, has intensified following a viral post by a U.S. attorney. This post, which has sparked heated debates across social media platforms, accused an Indian CEO of mismanaging a company, displacing its founders, and reshaping its leadership team predominantly with Indian executives.

The attorney’s post detailed claims against the CEO, who allegedly took over a company acquired by a private equity firm. According to the allegations, the CEO ousted the company’s original founders and replaced key leadership positions with a C-suite dominated by Indian professionals. Additionally, the attorney asserted that the CEO leveraged the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to implement a 10% temporary pay reduction for employees and halted all promotions.

Further accusations included the CEO’s decision to lay off 15% of the workforce, targeting experienced employees, and shutting down a satellite office. The attorney claimed the associated work was outsourced to India, which reportedly disrupted the company’s culture, decreased client satisfaction, and increased the workload for remaining employees.

Netizens React

The post, since its publication, has amassed over 8 million views and sparked widespread discussions. Many users on X (formerly Twitter) shared their personal experiences, alleging similar practices by Indian executives in high-ranking positions. These anecdotes highlighted concerns about biased hiring practices and job losses among American employees, further fueling the ongoing debate about immigration and workplace equity in the tech industry.

This incident underscores the complexities of immigration dynamics, corporate governance, and diversity in the workplace, offering a lens through which broader issues of inclusion and fairness are being scrutinized in professional environments.

“My ex worked for IBM and they would send employees to India to train their replacements,” revealed one X user.

“Same thing happened at my company. The Indian CEO came in and overnight basically all of the US and European middle management was nuked. The office in India got 5 times bigger. All the talent left was pulling their hair out trying to explain how everything works to the new teams. Who then proceeded to implement 'improvements' that pushed their work back to Europe and made everything easier for them? The European teams are still delivering everything but it's harder now,” lamented another.

Another user revealed how in his hometown, an Indian immigrant came and purchased a gas station and fired 10–15 employees, replacing them with family members.

https://m.economictimes.com/magazin...mid-h1b-visa-debate/articleshow/116730663.cms

US should stop giving Viza to Indians and manage company themselves.