I am completely puzzled too by this controversy. I did not see pg saying that people with heavy accents could not be funded. He just said that CEO has to be a g

I am completely puzzled too by this controversy. I did not see pg saying that people with heavy accents could not be funded. He just said that CEO has to be a good communicator and not having a heavy accent (compare late 1960s Schwarzenegger to one in 2000s to see how one can improve) is part of the deal. There is nothing preventing people with heavy accents taking a technical co-founder role. Anecdotal evidence: my father the technical co-founder of a products company has a rather heavy accent while his US born co-founder was the CEO. It worked out decently for them and very well for the company itself: company has been bought for the 2nd time, that is VCs sold it to a conglomerate.