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.“
@fj look at this marvelous paragraph from NYT: «Mr. Thiel’s relationship with Mr. Trump has since soured while Mr. Vance’s ties to the former president have strengthened. At a conference in Aspen, Colo., last month, Mr. Thiel said he would vote for Mr. Trump only “if you hold a gun to my head.”»
They are only interested in having access to the WH through Vance, nothing else.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html
@rpaulo That quote is deceptive, or someone is really holding a gun to his head because he did also say he's voting for Trump.
“Peter Thiel said he’d vote for Donald Trump over Joe Biden but he won’t provide money to the Republican presumptive nominee’s super PAC.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/27/peter-thiel-says-if-you-hold-a-gun-to-my-head-ill-vote-for-trump.html
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