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More from the article: But the forces of counterrevolution are strong. Last week, Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman went on Bloomberg Television to endorse a “moderated” approach to diversity that doesn’t “override merit” or reflect a climate of “hysteria” and “outrage.” “From my own experience talking to many CEOs, all the names that you know, privately, we are of the same mind,” he added. But as Slootman found out, there’s still a big difference between what you’re allowed to say privately and what you’re allowed to say in public: Following howls of outrage at his pro-merit remarks, he was forced to issue an apology.

For these CEOs, the problem isn’t just the media and external critics: The wokeness is coming from inside the building. At dinner parties, they ask each other the same question: How do we keep woke activists off the payroll? “It’s the first thing they want to talk about these days,” a vice president at a venture-capital shop told me. “It’s the crazy, activist, political stuff. I’ve not met a founder who doesn’t think it’s a problem. There’s a state of what the f**k?”

"How do we keep woke activists off the payroll?" This is a strange question. Do they mean somebody is trying to force them to put them on the payroll? Who is that and how do they do it?

Meanwhile, although some may be Republicans, I think most of these idiots are committed Democrats.

BTW, I own stock in Snowflake. It's taking the database software world by storm.

Do they mean somebody is trying to force them to put them on the payroll?

No one is trying to force them to do this. It's long since a done deal. The rot is everywhere.

...Do they mean somebody is trying to force them to put them on the payroll...

What it means is how can we make sure we are not hiring a Social Justice Warrior. They want someone who is a coding Warrior who stays focused only on writing code.

"How do we keep woke activists off the payroll?"

i.e. how to screen for them in the hiring process. One would think that would pretty simple.