Visa-free high-tech startup community on an ocean vessel 30 minutes by ferry from the Silicon Valley coast, in international waters outside US jurisdiction.
Of the top 25 most valuable tech companies, 60% were founded by first- or second-generation immigrants.
WeWork 🇮🇱
SpaceX 🇿🇦
Stripe 🇮🇪
Palantir 🇩🇪
Epic Games 🇨🇦
DoorDash 🇨🇳
Wish 🇨🇦
Instacart 🇮🇳
Slack 🇨🇦🇷🇺🇬🇧
They employed 1.9 million people last year.
Getting Internet to the ship is getting easier and easier... Now if only the same could be said of funding :) @elonmusk, want to beta-test a high-tech Mars colony on a ship first?
@BuiltTechLaw@ConversationEDU@Disney There's a third type of VLFS, quite successful and widespread: cruise ships. We've laid out the plans to launch a startup community on a cruise ship 12 nautical miles from the coast of Silicon Valley. The barrier has been funding, rather than political.
@izakaminska Our main objective is to enable startups to access both Silicon Valley and international talent, without the madness[1] of immigration.
[1]: https://t.co/2PrOAaUOYe