21 minutes 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.
14 hours ago
a day 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.
14 hours ago
Bezos and Zuck moved to neutral…
That is a fairly big change.
2 hours ago
Really I thought Bezos cancelled the WP opinion piece of endorsing Trump after they met up at Blue Origin?
10 minutes ago
no idea what you are referring to; This is what I am referring to:
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-5165353/washington-post...
a day ago
A16Z
a day ago
Also Peter Thiel I believe.
3 hours 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.
a day 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.
a day ago
Got a source for that?
15 hours ago
All of them...?
Those with power want deregulation, those without want regulations that constrain those with power. Just so we're on the same page, those with power is corporate America, those without is everyone else.
7 hours ago
Trump certainly did not have the backing of all of them…
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/silicon-valley-leaders-kamal...
a day ago
15 hours ago
It must be untrue, because you’re unfamiliar with the matter?
Here are some examples
Susa Ventures https://x.com/lpolovets Craft Ventures https://x.com/davidsacks Keith Rabois (khosla Naval https://x.com/naval Balaji https://x.com/balajis
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/silic...
19 hours 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.
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