Company Blueseed is working on a project to lure entrepreneurs from other countries to live 12 miles from Silicon Valley on a cruise ship. Idea behind this project comes as an answer to restrictive visa issues.
Vision behind San Francisco startup company Blueseed is a veritable Googleplex of the sea.
The company plans to anchor ship in international waters 12 nautical miles from US coast and make city with floating offices from where foreign entrepreneurs can start up their businesses without US working visa.
Co-founder Max Marty sees opportunity in this project because despite immigrant work visas, entrepreneurial visa does not exist.
High seas is perfect environment and answer to this challenge according to Max Marty.
What will floating city look like?
The city will have all amenities like on regular cruise ships like gyms, pools, massage areas, rock climbing walls, and indoor soccer fields. Blueseed model is Googleplex version at seas but unlike the Googleplex, where employees can walk out the door, entrepreneurs must take a ferry to the mainland.
Monthly cost for standard cabin will be $1,600 and more than 250 companies have already expressed interest.
However this project faces many challenges like immigration and maritime laws and there are some social elements that need to be considered
"The average entrepreneur is 39 years of age," says Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School. "The average entrepreneur has a family. They're going to move them out to a ship? If they do, what are the kids going to do? Go to school?"
