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Things get a bit more complicated when the founders are russian and had R&D offices in russia. To my knowledge they claimed to have cut all financial ties to russia and they also positioned themselves publicly against the war.



Watch out there are russian immigrants founding companies all over the place! Some of them have name Sergei. USA is even trying to attract those russian kids on purpose! What a conspiracy.


The google founders are american citizens.


> Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the Soviet Union

> The Brin family lived in Vienna and Paris while Mikhail Brin secured a teaching position at the University of Maryland with help from Anatole Katok. During this time, the Brin family received support and assistance from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. They arrived in the United States on October 25, 1979.

He is an immigrant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin


Yes, he is an immigrant but he is no longer a russian citizen. That is the whole point.


If he can be trusted to be an "American" as a naturalised citizen, why does America bar a naturalised citizen from becoming the President? (The US constitution bars naturalised citizens from contesting in the Presidential poll).


Because the Constitution was written hundreds of years ago by people who were afraid a foreign interest would subvert their nascent state?


So why hasn't that been revised 200+ years later?


Because nobody has cared enough.




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