Look, according to National Review’s readership, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc are private companies and therefore allowed to hire and fire anyone they want. If this Republican engineer is unhappy, he can go build his own Google and compete in the market place of freedom!
You are correct JP, however. Where is vaulted wealthy talkers, industrialist on our side of the ledger to throw him 10 million to get going? The Koch's? the Anschutz? the Vos's? Limbaugh? Hannity? etc etc. I don't have it. fractional shares couple hundred bucks, I am in. I am so jaded / acrimonious especially after all the Senatorial Swamp Snakes have gone on record against Tariffs against what is a Terr***-narkho-state, I am supposed to have hope any of these clowns including our chattering class will do the right thing? Sadly, it is PDJT against the world, thank G-d at least we have his back, his own party doesn't, neither does the Digital Totalitarians of the Palo Alto Mafia...
Do you have half a trillion dollars to lend him to build another Google?
If not, your idea is unrealistic. The days of starting a Trillion dollar internet company in your garage to compete against Google are long over.
If you want in this poker game, you have to plunk down 500 billion.