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.“
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
Fascism for first time founders https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/ As usual I’ve found that techdirt is doing more to call out the fash in tech than most
The standards of compliance have gotten so low that a Sheikh bribing the president of the USA with a $2 billion deal negotiated through a Silicon Valley VC is not even news anymore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html
“What’s happened to Silicon Valley? Why did the Ayn Rand–loving heroes of tech become Donald Trump’s bootlickers?”
“[Tech VCs and CEOs] may believe that submitting to Trump’s protection racket protects their shareholders. But tech giants are certainly capable of standing up for the long-term viability of their industry. And for democracy. So far they are doing the opposite. "
Silicon Valley Tech CEOs, who have long been claiming to champion free speech, have effectively been muzzled by this administration.
Caught between their fiduciary duty and Trump’s intimidations, none has the courage to speak up first.
This is almost a textbook case of a prisoner’s dilemma.
Extract from: https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/andrew-ross-sorkin-on-the-stock-market-crash-that-shattered-america
Le conseiller IA du 🇻🇦 pape (oui, c'est une fonction) fait un diagnostic de l'hérésie de Peter Thiel et c'est honnêtement brilliant:
“Peter Thiel agit sur deux registres simultanés, révélateurs de la profondeur de son hérésie politique : d’un côté, il finance les forces centrifuges qui érodent l’État-nation ; de l’autre, il arme l’État pour instaurer un contrôle panoptique”
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/14/thiel-heresie-benanti/
Les théories de Thiel concernant l’Antéchrist sont remplies d'incohérences.
Il a bien compris les mécanismes du bouc-émissaire des travaux de René Girard mais à la place de les redouter, Thiel les utilise comme arme.
Analyse brillante d’Antonio Spadaro:
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/04/04/refutation-spadaro-thiel/
@fj Il y a bien longtemps, j'ai lu avec beaucoup d'intérêt La violence et le sacré, puis Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde, mais j'étais loin d'imaginer que Peter Thiel utilisait René Girard pour voir l'antéchrist dans la technologie.
Je me coucherai moins bête ce soir, mais pas plus rassuré.
Frédéric Jacobs
Jerome