New Delhi, Dec. 8 -- $100,000 per day? A US-based tech co-founder has become the talk of the town after he publicly declared he would gladly pay the staggering amount on a daily basis if it meant hiring the best global talent for his company.

At a time when Donald Trump's $100,000 H1-B visa fee hike has left a lot of foreign workers in the US on edge - San Francisco based firm Metaview founder's comment has taken everyone by surprise. Shahriar Tajbakhsh, co-founder and chief technology officer of Metaview - made the '$100,000 per day' remark while responding to a X user's comment that the H-1B visa fee should be set at $100,000 annually rather than as a one-time payment.

In posts made both on LinkedIn and X in September, Shahriar Tajbak...