Overview
- Bansal arrived in the United States in 2000 at age 21 on an H‑1B visa, which allowed employment but not founding a company.
- After roughly seven years he obtained permanent residency and immediately left his job to start AppDynamics.
- AppDynamics grew to roughly 2,000 employees and was acquired by Cisco in 2017 for $3.7 billion.
- He now leads Harness, which has about 1,300 employees, and he also runs a venture firm and another company.
- He estimates hiring about 4,000 people since becoming a permanent resident and says immigration, including H‑1B talent, is central to Silicon Valley even as he prefers to hire Americans when possible.