Indian-origin CEO shares woes about obtaining US green card on X, gets one-word reply from Elon Musk, says…
New Delhi: World’s richest man and owner of enterprises like SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk is very active on the social media platform X, that he owns. Very recently he has responded to a query posted on X by an Indian-origin CEO, Aravind Srinivas and now, it is going viral on social media.
Aravind Srinivas posted on X: “I think I should get a green card. Wdyt?”.
I think I should get a green card. Wdyt?
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) December 14, 2024
Aravind Srinivas received many comments on this post, but the one that stands out is the one by Elon Musk, who responded with just one word, Yes.
Yes
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2024
Aravind Srinivas is the CEO of Perplexity, an AI-based search engine, backed by several notable investors such as Jeff Bezos, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Tobi Lutke, Jeff Dean, Susan Wojcicki, Yann LeCun, Naval Ravikant, Paul Buchheit, and Andrej Karpathy.
He started his career at OpenAI as a research intern and worked for several other companies, such as Google and DeepMind.
This is not the first time that the two have had an exchange of posts.
On October 31, Aravind Srinivas posted: “Yep. I have been waiting for my green card for like the last 3 years. Still haven’t gotten it. People mostly have no idea when they talk about immigration.”
Yep. I have been waiting for my green card for like the last 3 years. Still haven’t gotten it. People mostly have no idea when they talk about immigration. https://t.co/X2o34kiFjP
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) October 30, 2024
Replying to this post Musk wrote: “We have an upside down system that makes it hard for highly talented people to come to America legally, but trivial for criminals to come here illegally. Why is easier to get in illegally as a murderer than legally as a Nobel Laureate? @realDonaldTrump & DOGE will fix this.”
We have an upside down system that makes it hard for highly talented people to come to America legally, but trivial for criminals to come here illegally.
Why is easier to get in illegally as a murderer than legally as a Nobel Laureate?@realDonaldTrump & DOGE will fix this. https://t.co/RgMGWeyX1X
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2024