An angel investor in 350 startups, including Airtable and Rippling, says founders shouldn't copy Silicon Valley playbooks

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Immad Akhund
Immad Akhund, an angel investor since 2016, says blindly copying Silicon Valley playbooks like "founder mode" never works.

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I moved to Bengaluru after working for years in Silicon Valley. The intense work culture shocked me.

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Punit Soni
Soni now lives in Silicon Valley and runs his healthcare startup, Suki, but visits India often.

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Sriram Krishnan's White House role stirred hope among Indian immigrants in Silicon Valley. Then came the backlash.

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Sriram Krishnan
Sriram Krishnan

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Immigration lawyers tell tech workers on visas to get back to the US before Trump takes office. 'A storm is coming.'

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President-elect Donald Trump
President-elect Donald Trump.

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Immigration attorney Sophie Alcorn is sharing this advice with her high-tech clientele: Get back to the US before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

I'm a dual citizen who lives in Canada. It's not as easy as you think to move here.

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Dual citizen Michael Stiege has lived in Canada and the US for an extended time.

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I was born in the 'Silicon Valley' of India and watched it change from a quiet, green city to an international tech hub

Tech Insider : Business, Style, Technology
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Chandrashekar supports carpooling and rainwater harvesting to deal with infrastructure issues in the city.

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A guide to tech billionaire Peter Thiel's Washington web

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Crypto
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel's influence in Washington stretches far and wide, from politicians to tech leaders to his own companies' government contracts.

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As many as one in 10 coders are 'ghost engineers' Stanford researcher says, lurking online and doing no work

Tech Insider : Business, Style
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Trump made unprecedented inroads in Silicon Valley this election

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Style
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Sriram Krishnan is leaving Andreessen Horowitz and is reportedly in talks to join Elon Musk at DOGE

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Technology
Sriram Krishnan
Sriram Krishnan is not the only Silicon Valley leader rumored to be involved with DOGE.

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