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The CEO of This $2 Billion Startup Is Hosting a Big Hillary Fundraiser
TIME ^ | June 4, 2015 | by Laura Lorenzetti

Posted on 06/04/2015 10:42:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Box CEO Aaron Levie has thrown his support behind presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as the 2016 race kicks into gear.

Levie, the 30-year-old founder of the recently-public company, has agreed to host a fundraiser for the Democratic frontrunner.

Levie, who was busy building his “cloud” data storage business back in 2008 the last time Clinton ran, told Reuters that this year’s election is a big one for the tech sector. The stakes are high given that issues such as improving the patent system, securing visas, and protecting privacy rights directly affect his business and others in and around Silicon Valley.

At the same time, candidates know they need the cachet that tech elites can bring — and their dollars. Clinton’s campaign has been courting technology leaders such as Levie who would potentially help support her run for the top office.

“Young, innovative entrepreneurs are key to growing and strengthening our economy,” a Clinton spokesperson told Reuters.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


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1 posted on 06/04/2015 10:42:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is “Box”.

Want to know so I can avoid it.


2 posted on 06/04/2015 10:45:08 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The high tech LEFT now runs the country. They have almost all of the big money.


3 posted on 06/04/2015 10:47:41 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Westbrook
Just another server farm masquerading as a business
4 posted on 06/04/2015 10:47:52 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“issues such as ... securing visas”

No doubt. Levie and his buddy Suckerberg can’t get enough cheap foreign labor to displace their American workers.


5 posted on 06/04/2015 10:48:41 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I won’t buy their stock and I won’t shed a tear if they ever go bankrupt.

You undermine our country... we undermine you.


6 posted on 06/04/2015 10:53:21 AM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Westbrook

it’s a thing you put CRAP into


7 posted on 06/04/2015 10:54:01 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I really think the support of Hillary from the business people comes down to the abject fear that if they showed any support for a Republican they would be hounded out of town like the CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich.

So these business leaders might naturally support Republican economic programs, and may pragmatically support ostensibly Democrat social issues (in order to compete for labor talent). But the average Millennial employee cannot separate the two. A Republican politician might support tax, trade and immigration policies beneficial to the company, but the Millennial employee only knows the Republican as an evil individual who hates homosexuals.

What is a CEO to do? He has to find a Democrat who will support his business to some extent. Not as much as the average Republican, not necessarily with broad support of tax, immigration, and trade policies, but enough to benefit his business some, usually with a specific carve-out.


8 posted on 06/04/2015 12:33:58 PM PDT by magellan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pay to play is right, and the Democrats control the protection racket in California.


9 posted on 06/04/2015 12:44:07 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Westbrook

A cloud storage service like Dropbox.


10 posted on 06/04/2015 1:11:51 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

” Levie, who was busy building his “cloud” data storage business back in 2008 the last time Clinton ran”

Does it store E-mail and does it allow the user to irrevocably erase it all?

Just askin...


11 posted on 06/04/2015 2:04:08 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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