For a generation, the smartest people I knew dreamed of moving to America.

They took uninspiring jobs, learned to wait through endless paperwork, and believed that one visa stamp could change their lives. That belief built an empire of talent that powered some of the world’s most iconic companies. And now, that same empire is dying, or at the very least, dreaming of moving elsewhere. Talent is now voting with its feet.

As someone born in the USSR, a few years before its collapse, who grew up in Kazakhstan and Russia and later........

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