Posted on 08/23/2016 1:04:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Tim Cook will mark his five-year anniversary as the CEO of Apple by doing something that his predecessor Steve Jobs typically avoided: hosting a fundraiser for a presidential candidate.
On Wednesday, Cook and Lisa Jackson, Apple's (AAPL, Tech30) head of environmental initiatives, will host an event in California to raise money for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Those invited have reportedly been asked to contribute as much as $50,000.
Cook is just the latest in a growing list of tech executives and venture capitalists working to raise big money to help Clinton beat Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked tech companies and opposes the industry on key issues like immigration and trade.
Salesforce (CRM, Tech30) CEO Marc Benioff, Google (GOOG) CFO Ruth Porat, Zynga (ZNGA) chairman Mark Pincus, Napster founder Sean Parker, SolarCity (SCTY) CEO (and Elon Musk's cousin) Lyndon Rive and LinkedIn (LNKD, Tech30) founder Reid Hoffman have all contributed or raised at least $100,000 for Clinton's bid.
That's according to a lengthy list of top fundraisers, dubbed "Hillblazers," put out by the campaign.
The list also includes tech investors like Brook Byers, a founding partner of Kleiner Perkins, and Chamath Palihapitiya, an early Facebook (FB, Tech30) exec.
Even Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple's late apolitical founder, is there.
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When will the government start taxing the “windfall profits” of silicone valley? Long overdue.
They want their virtual slaves to keep coming in on the H1B to keep artificially depressing wages in the Tech Sectors...
Traitors the whole lot.
And that explains why the hackers are going after the dems. They are anti-establishment.
Anything beyond about the 7th century is forbidden to musloids. Nothing left for them to do but interbreed.
If you're thinking Android, that's from Google who is also on that list.:(
Of course. The Silicon Valley companies are the epitome of those companies that want foreign labor that they can exploit. They make this big deal that they can’t get enough qualified American workers - which is BS. They fire the American workers when they can and replace them with cheap, compliant foreign ones, many of whom have problems communicating in English. There are plenty of unemployed, experienced American engineers, but these companies don’t want them.
Trump’s policies would be anathema to these companies.
The fact that so many Silicon Valley companies don’t want to give Trump any money is a great big plus in his favor, in my book.
“...she might be able to be bought.”
Might?
“And we need to make a point to severely burn these bastards. I think Silicon Valley has become the most evil place on earth.”
Agree with you. I’ve seen enough from the Silicon valley commies to call them traitors. Send in the 1st Marine Division to arrest this scum and try them for treason. An American-style Nuremberg trial would suit me.
They are all wannabe despots, and we need to treat them as such. Google needs to be busted up "Sherman anti-trust act" style. So does a bunch of other googleoppolies in Silicone valley.
You pretty much nailed it.
Spoken to a lot of folks with the Samsung and to a person, they like it better than the iPhone.
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