@paulg pointed out that you probably can't get venture capital funding in Silicon Valley if you have a "strong foreign accent:"
https://www.unz.com/isteve/paul-graham-h-1b-for-thee-but-not-for-me/ …
Paul Graham himself is an immigrant: his dad was a English-born professor at Carnegie-Mellon and he grew up in Pittsburgh.https://twitter.com/DavidSimonSPG/status/1115624866701611009 …
Only in the purely mechanical sense that investors can't get excited about a pitch if they can't understand it. But it's the strength that matters, not the foreignness. Sergey Brin has a foreign accent (among thousands of others).
