'It's your sense of entitlement': US officials slam Indian-origin entrepreneur Ankit Gupta over H-1B comments

Indian-origin serial entrepreneur Ankit Gupta, general partner of YC, is at the center of a major social media storm over his comments on H-1B which he deleted later. Indian-American entrepreneur Ankit Gupta landed in a soup after his H-1B comments on social media that stirred the hornet's nest, following which Gupta made his X account private. Inspector General of the US Department of Labor took note of Gupta's comment and slammed him publicly, calling out what he termed as his "sense of entitlement". Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission of the United States Andrew Ferguson said individuals like Gupta do not have the best interests of Americans in their minds.Who is Ankit Gupta? What is the latest H-1B controversy?Gupta, a distinguished computer scientist from Harvard, is a serial entrepreneur and currently a partner of Y Combinator. Before joining YC, he was the co-founder and CTO of Reveries Labs. The controversy that he landed in stemmed from his comment on JD Vance's post."If an American corporation needs workers, it should hire and train Americans," Vice President JD Vance wrote on X, reacting to the Donald Trump administration's new H-1B visa fee. "in a win for the woke ...