Though President Donald Trump has increased the fee for H-1B visa from $1,500 to $100,000, thinking that it would force the US tech companies to hire local professionals, Microsoft founder Bill Gates thought something else. He hired Indian professionals instead. He later said that these engineers helped him transform the company and make what is now known as Microsoft. A snippet of the video has gone viral. It is a part of the speech the Microsoft boss delivered at IIT Delhi in February 2024.

Why did Bill Gates hire engineers from IIT?

Recalling the events of the 1980s, Bill Gates told the crowd of engineering students at the IIT that these were the initial days when Microsoft was still a young company with only a few hundred workers. He was mulling the idea of hiring some talented and

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