- Trump’s Draft High-Skill Visa Policy Threatens US Economy Last Saturday a preliminary draft order titled “Protecting American Jobs and Workers by Strengthening the Integrity of Foreign Worker Visa Programs” surfaced that targets H-1B “genius” visas. The order signals a second wave of the new administration’s immigration agenda—with potentially catastrophic effects to our economy. I’ve written and spoken extensively on the H-1B topic recently […]
- The Assured Cost of Clamping Down On H-1B “Genius” Visas The entire US economy is at stake with Trump’s draft work-visa order About a month before President Trump was sworn into office, CNBC asked me what I would do if I held the executive office for one day. My answer to Kayla Tausche was that I’d work to fix the growing student visa and H-1B visa […]
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work Artificial Intelligence has been the topic de jour lately with every corner of intellectual thought sounding in on the perils, and the potential rewards, of synthesizing a machine intelligence that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human can. Elon Musk, Bill Gates and even Stephen Hawking have all suggested that an AI with […]
- Six Bits of Wisdom For the Aspiring Entrepreneur This week, Fortune Magazine (as part of their Leadership Insider network series) asked me “What advice would you give someone looking to start their own business?” You can read the edited version here, but as it happens, I had a bit more to say on the subject than Fortune’s format would allow. I’ve posted my full […]
- Ringing the Bell at the NYSE with Customers and Care It’s hard not to be on cloud nine this week. The ramp up to taking GoDaddy public has been invigorating, exhausting, and deeply educational. Ringing the bell at the New York Stock exchange yesterday morning was the high-point of the week, but it wouldn’t have been quite so amazing without the people there to celebrate […]
- Catalyst and Cause – Parsing the Challenge of Gender in Tech This morning it was announced that I was part of the executive producer team for the feature-length documentary “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap,” which is set to premiere next month at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The film takes a critical look at why so many American women and minorities eschew careers in […]
- Changing Course on GoDaddy Advertising Earlier today we previewed GoDaddy’s Super Bowl spot on a popular talk show, and shortly after a controversy started to swirl about Buddy, our puppy, being sold online. The responses were emotional and direct. Many people urged us not to run the ad. We’ve made a tremendous amount of progress over the past two years, […]
- Women in Tech: A Cause Worth the Effect I recently published an op-ed in Fortune magazine on the barriers I see in our progress toward improving the gender diversity in the tech industry. The full article can be read here, but I’ve also chosen to post an enhanced version below that includes some of my personal motivations on the subject as well as […]
- GeekWire 2013: Vision, Culture & Rainy Seattle For those of you who missed the live stream of my chat with John and Todd from the 2013 GeekWire Summit in Seattle, here’s a transcript of the talk: Jonathan Sposato: So I have the honor of introducing Blake Irving. He is one of the coolest cats that I’ve ever had the pleasure of working […]
- Fortune Brainstorm: On Attracting Great Talent Today I had the opportunity to talk to a small group of folks at the 2013 Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference about the role CEOs play in fueling company growth with talent—both acting as a magnet for new talent and mentoring existing talent on our teams. I was joined on the panel by Keith Krach, the CEO […]