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Shobhit Mathur, co-founder and vice chancellor of an Indian university, responded to Vice President JD Vance’s comment about H-1B visa workers being “indentured servants” by sharing his personal experience working for Amazon. Mathur was part of the initial team that built AWS while on an H-1B visa during a period when Amazon faced annual losses; today, AWS contributes over 60% to Amazon's profits. He questioned how companies like Amazon could have achieved such success without H-1B workers and challenged critics who label these employees as exploited laborers.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-09,
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Story summary
Shobhit Mathur, co-founder and vice-chancellor of Rishihood University in India, defended skilled foreign workers' contributions to the U.S. tech industry by recalling his experience joining Amazon on an H-1B visa when the company was still making losses. He stated that he was part of the initial team that built Amazon Web Services (AWS) and noted that approximately 100 H-1B visa holders were involved in building AWS, which has since become a significant source of revenue for Amazon. Mathur’s comments come as the U.S. administration imposes restrictions on green-card sponsorship processing for several tech companies amid debates over skilled immigration policies.
Mathur highlighted how these foreign workers contributed to Amazon's growth from operating out of rented spaces with makeshift desks made from doors inside small cabins to becoming a technology giant. He emphasized that AWS now contributes more than 60% to Amazon’s profits and has driven up the company’s stock price by over 300 times, changing Seattle’s skyline in the process. In response to criticism like Vice President JD Vance's "indentured servants" comment, Mathur remarked sarcastically, “Good luck building companies and wealth without these 'indentured servants.'”
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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.
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Bezos → recall → time
"When Amazon hired me on an
H-1B visa, Amazon was making losses for 10 straight years.
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Amazon → hire → years
It was operating out of a rented building where we worked on door desks in small cabins.
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we → operate → cabins
I was in the initial team that built AWS," Mathur said.
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Mathur → build → AWS
"Today AWS contributes more than 60% to Amazon's profit.
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AWS → contribute → profit
The stock price has gone 300x.
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price → go → ?
Amazon's buildings have changed the skyline of downtown Seattle.
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buildings → change → Seattle
Jeff Bezos went on to become the world's richest man.
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Bezos → go → ?
Good luck building companies and wealth without these 'indentured servants'," Mathur, the VC of Rishihood University said.
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Mathur → build → University
Strong reactions to US crackdown on Green Card
In its continued effort to weed out visa abuse, the Donald Trump administration stopped the Green Card process for workers in eight IT majors: Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Capgemini.
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administration → continue → majors
Amazon and Google were not named.
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Amazon → name → ?
The restriction announced is also not on H-1Bs but on Green Card sponsorships for their employees.
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restriction → announce → employees
When Vice President JD Vance announced the restriction, he mentioned the H-1B visa workers and called them bonded labor.
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he → announce → them
"If you are working as an H-1B visa in the United States of America, you’re earning $20,000 less than an American citizen hired in the same position.
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you → work → position
If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you’re making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position.
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you → bring → position
So I’m sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played.
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that → ’m → game
You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers and, if you’re a corporation, you make a ton of money by under cutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn’t be in the United States of America to begin with," Vance said.
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Vance → bring → America
India officially objected to the use of the words and said i was unwarranted as talent mobility from India to the US help US companies with "cutting-edge talent, innovation, research, productivity, competitiveness and job creation, besides creating shareholder wealth."
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mobility → object → wealth
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