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?

And now … ex-Silicon Valley VC JD Vance becomes Trump’s running mate.

“Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the tech industry as a venture capitalist. He served as a principal at Peter Thiel's firm, Mithril Capital, between 2016 and 2017.“

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-15/trump-taps-rising-republican-star-jd-vance-as-running-mate

Donald Trump Vice Presidential Pick Is JD Vance

Donald Trump tapped JD Vance as his running mate, elevating to the Republican presidential ticket a venture capitalist-turned-senator whose embrace of populist politics garnered national attention and made him a rising star in the party.

Bloomberg
@fj As an aside, how does someone like Peter Thiel love Lord of the Rings so much that he names companies after it (Mithril, Palantir, Valar), and yet decide to be Sauron?