Microsoft, Google, Adobe, IBM, Micron – these are some of the biggest and the most traditional household names in the American tech industry.
They also share one common fact – their CEOs are of Indian descent.
See the following link for top tech companies by market cap and one can see roughly 1 out of 6 top US tech companies have CEOs of Indian descent.
It’s absolutely mind blowing how this particular group (namely Indian immigrants) created this much of executive success in the US, probably in just one generation.
America needs to make sure its immigration policy allows the best of best talents from all over the world come to the US and achieve their American dream, including becoming top executives at big companies. That’s what some of the Indian immigrants did and I’m sure there are many other countries that can produce top level executives who can pull off great success and contribute to the success of