A follow up question for you: why isn’t India lobbying heavily to end the H1B program? Wouldn’t it be a massive economic benefit to them?

That will come next.

YC has. There has been (if I remember correctly) batches entirely based on India.

No, you misunderstand, I am not saying run a batch there. I am saying that YC should startup an org there that purely contracts to their startups, no need to hire, no need for H1Bs.

Then you are competing for talent with Fortune 500 companies that pay more than startup wages.

in the US they are not competing?