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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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Frédéric Jacobs Jul 15, 2024

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

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Frédéric Jacobs Jul 17, 2024

“Silicon Valley can’t let Musk and the All-In crew define its political identity. I still think the majority of tech workers oppose Trump. They need to be much louder about it.” https://www.newcomer.co/p/silicon-valleys-trump-embrace

Silicon Valley's Trump Embrace

My thoughts on Silicon Valley's love affair with Trump

Newcomer

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Frédéric Jacobs Feb 19, 2025

Please someone bring a camera when you're breaking the news to a16z's Marc Andreessen, who said he was forced to support Trump because Lina Khan was preventing his fund to get exits.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/trump-enforcers-affirm-lina-khans

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Frédéric Jacobs Jul 6, 2025

The amount of accepted bigotry in Silicon Valley VC circles, especially around a16z and Sequoia partners, is quite remarkable. I'm honestly quite stunned that some European pension and sovereign funds are still investing with them.

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RootWyrm 🇺🇦

@fj as someone with literal decades of experience dealing with Sand Hell Road and their ilk, I can tell you for fact, it's *ALWAYS* been an exclusive club for the most disgusting, bigoted, racist pieces of shit who very very much don't want anyone to know that's exactly what they are and always have been.