Apr 18
Immigration reform is a huge issue in Silicon Valley (and the rest of the country) right now, and we’ve seen a bevy of realistic proposals for dealing with a system that many describe as “broken.” But Blueseed, a group of entrepreneurs aiming to build a floating city off the coast of San Francisco to house foreign tech workers who can’t obtain visas, is definitely the wildest. The premise of the 2-year-old Mike Maples-backed startup is simple: give foreign workers a place to live that’s close enough to commute a few times a week on a business tourism visa, but far enough that they don’t need work visas. More »
