The startup visa is a bad idea (it makes immigration status conditional on funding, which adds perverse incentives to an already dysfunctional funding culture),

The startup visa is a bad idea (it makes immigration status conditional on funding, which adds perverse incentives to an already dysfunctional funding culture), but the fact that the tech industry can't even get small concessions like this from Trump vitiates the argument that it's worth attending very public meetings with him.