Launching FWD.us with other Silicon Valley power players.
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Silicon Valley is takinâ it to the streetsâvirtually speaking. In an op-ed published in The Washington Post, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the creation of a new organizationâFWD.usâwhose mission is to bring together the tech community to pass immigration reform. Joining Zuckerberg in the endeavor are some of Silicon Valley's finest, including Google Inc. chairman Eric Schmidt and Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer. Zuckerberg used himself as an example (his grandparents came in through Ellis Island) of the importance of immigrants to America. âWe have a strange immigration policy for a nation of immigrants ... itâs unfit for todayâs world,â he argued.