Silicon Valley /Obama’s campaign
...suggests Joshua Green in the June issue of Atlantic magazine....
...From the start, the venture capitalists did for Obama what they would do for any start-up; they hit up their friends for money.
Mark P. Gorenberg, managing director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and a fundraiser for John Kerry in 2004 and for Democratic Congressional candidates in 2006, early on committed to bring in $250,000 for Obama.
Like Gorenberg, Steven J. Spinner, an entrepreneur and CEO of Sports Potential Inc., also became a member of Obama’s national finance committee and pledged to raise $250,000. “I’m a startup guy,” he told Green. “We take measured bets. … If you’ve got the right plan and the right leadership, the game can be won. That’s how I looked at Obama.” ...
Reaching out to SanFrancisco. (Isn’t that where Nancy P and her real estate husbandband live?)
Article on a Boxer fund raiser..
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...Among Obama’s list of Bay Area supporters are San Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris, Hummer Winblad venture capitalist Mark Gorenberg and John Roos, chief executive officer of technology law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto....