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Frédéric Jacobs Jul 15, 2024

Silicon Valley Tech investors used to claim they were backing companies "to make a world a better place”, and to some extent they were (fooling themselves into) believing that.

But now it seems like most prominent venture capital partners from a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Craft Ventures ... are spending their days spouting very nationalistic bigoted pro-Trump ideology on X.

Are there any still, not entirely batshit crazy, VCs in the US?

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Supership 79

@fj I moved around those valley VC circles in the late 90s through to the mid 2000s, and they were all, behind closed doors, shockingly right-wing in their views and opinions. they all liked Bush until they didn't. they had a slight whisper thin veneer of libertarianism in that they didn't care if their employees were gay, and they were generally atheist. their politics were to support "whoever cuts my taxes".