Video of Gates saying IITians helped strengthen Microsoft resurfaces amid H-1B visa row
A 2024 video, showing Bill Gates talking about how IITians helped Microsoft, resurfaced amid US' $100,000 H-1B visa fee, which effectively made it difficult for people to migrate to US. He recalled that a Microsoft employee said he'd hire 15 IITians, which would "strengthen Microsoft's engineering capabilities". Incident happened 25 years ago, when Microsoft had few hundred employees, he added.