Silicon Valley got what it wanted

31 pointsposted 8 months ago
by dotcoma
(bloodinthemachine.com)

20 Comments

some-guy

8 months ago

SV, and California as an extension of that, has never been as liberal as people say it is. It has always been about money. Any "social justice" messaging a lot of tech companies professed was all a poker play in the current zeitgeist around the time. It has died down quite considerably because they see the direction the country is going--they would rather have a president that espouses populism without actually following through on most of their promises.

user

8 months ago

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dlachausse

8 months ago

Were there any other major Silicon Valley companies or executives that were pro-Trump other than Elon Musk and X? The whole premise of this post seems untrue on its face.

viscanti

8 months ago

A16Z

xg15

8 months ago

Also Peter Thiel I believe.

nojvek

8 months ago

Look at Palantir stock. It has gone brrrrrr since announcement.

VCs associated with All-in podcast are heavy Trump supporters. Crypto companies funded 100s of millions to Trump super pacs. Coinbase comes to mind.

reverius42

8 months ago

Also David Sacks I believe.

xg15

8 months ago

I read an interesting article recently about Thiel's, Musk's and Sacks' common career paths, views and ambitions.

One point that stuck out for me was how all three of them had spent a significant part of their childhood in Apartheid-era South Africa, as part of the white ruling class (so learned of Apartheid as a good thing or even had family that belonged to the ruling class). This is well-known for Musk, but I think less so for Thiel and Sacks.

Seems to me that gives their ultra-libertarian, "anti-woke", pro-inequality views another context.

The article is in German, at https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000243890/tech-investor...

dlachausse

8 months ago

Yes Peter Thiel, but he’s the only other one I’m aware of.

That’s not exactly a groundswell of support from Silicon Valley.

underseacables

8 months ago

That's a difficult question to an answer. The employees of those companies were most if not entirely anti-Trump, so, if the CEO was pro Trump, then they may not have want to say anything in fear of upsetting the employees.