'When Amazon hired me on H-1B...': Indian university co-founder wishes good luck to US without 'indentured servants'

JD Vance's use of the words 'indentured servants', describing foreign tech workers in the US triggered strong reactions. Amid overall outrage against Vice President JD Vance's "indentured servants" comment, Indian entrepreneur Shobhit Mathur, co-founder and vice chancellor of a private university in India, recalled his employment with Amazon in the US and said how such "indentured servants" helped Amazon grow over the years and how Jeff Bezos went on to become the world's richest man at that time."When Amazon hired me on an H-1B visa, Amazon was making losses for 10 straight years. It was operating out of a rented building where we worked on door desks in small cabins. I was in the initial team that built AWS," Mathur said. "Today AWS contributes more than 60% to Amazon's profit. The stock price has gone 300x. Amazon's buildings have changed the skyline of downtown Seattle. Jeff Bezos went on to become the world's richest man.""There were about a hundred H1B visa holders like me in the initial team of Amazon. Good luck building companies and wealth without these 'indentured servants'," Mathur, the VC of Rishihood University said.Strong reactions to US crackdown on Green CardIn its ...