Thank you for answering my questions and I will gladly answer yours. First let me say I consider myself a labor activist so am very well aware of the number of American jobs, including IT jobs, that have been lost to outsourcing in recent years. This has been done in a wide variety of creative ways that I won't elaborate on here. My impression then, from your website, was that you not only planned to bring entrepreneurs over for your venture but also planned for these start-ups to hire their workers from overseas, using the ship to beat US worker Visa requirements. Looking at your website again, I think I got that impression because you use the word "individuals" and don't make a distinction throughout between the entrepreneurs and who would work for them. There was also an article in Wired entitled "Startup Ducks Immigration Law With ‘Googleplex of the Sea" that helped to bolster this impression. While obviously you will not have a "must hire a certain number of Americans" requirement, like with the EB-5 Visa, if you intend to locate near Silicon Valley with the hope of attracting qualified US IT workers to your start-ups, that would be something that might help allay some of the pro-labor sets' fears. To be totally honest, there is nothing that would seem to prevent a start-up from hiring cheaper foreign IT labor, though presumably the wage differential would be reduced at least somewhat by transaction cost (i.e. the start-ups having to bring the labor to the ship). Otherwise your argument looks pretty sound, though I didn't check your job creation numbers very closely because anything involving multipliers can always be challenged. Lastly, I would like to add that in the case of your ship, even if all IT workers were foreign (which hopefully they would not be), the possible creation of a new Google, etc. might be worth it, especially given the fact you can only fit some many IT workers on one ship. Now, if your business takes off, and I next read that you have a fleet of ships off the coast, all employing only foreign IT workers, you will certainly hear from me or people like me again...[:)]
In all seriousness, I hope your venture does work, create another Google or Twitter or whatever, and grow to create a lot of jobs as there certainly is need for them.
Thank you for taking the time to clarify your mission...but do you have to be associated with Peter Thiel? Okay, only kidding:)
Supertascha
p.s. You can unfollow me on Twitter if you like and you will not need to worry about me sending unfavorable tweets again about your project. I do recommend you do this unless you like being barraged with leftist tweets-but you don't have to of course.