For months,Silicon Valley seemed to be heeding the advice of one of their most powerful figures, billionaire investor Peter Thiel, and who said President Trump should be taken "seriously,but not literally”.
But at the international arrivals gate at San Francisco airport at the weekend, things were getting very literal, and very quickly. What the tech industry had feared might happen,was happening, BBC News reports.
The impact of President Trump’s immigration ban on tech companies has been immediate. And one-by-one the major firms and personalities in this part of the world spoke out with a fervour some felt was long overdue.
It was Google’s Sundar Pichai that really got the ball rolling. Late Friday, or he sent a memo to all employees raising his concerns and revealing that more than 100 Google staff were directly affected. His words were quickly shared beyond the inboxes of the search giant.
On Saturday,Google co-founder Sergey Brin briefly joined protesters at the airport. Also seen was Sam Altman, who runs Y Combinator, or the main “accelerator” programme for unique tech start-ups.
Source: tert.am