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'Not all VCs have turned MAGA': Slew of Bay Area investors endorse Harris
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | By Stephen Council, Tech Reporter

Posted on 08/04/2024 12:44:16 AM PDT by thecodont

More than 500 venture capitalists have signed a pledge revealed Wednesday to support Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for president, building a “VCs for Kamala” list that now represents billions of dollars in personal wealth and managed capital.

The coalition emerged even as outspoken supporters of Donald Trump like Elon Musk and David Sacks push the narrative that Silicon Valley is behind the former president — and just two weeks after Musk and Sacks rejoiced over the pick of J.D. Vance for Trump’s running mate.

“Add your name and firm to be a part of this pledge,” the Google form for the “VCs for Kamala” list said. “Let’s show founders that not all VCs have turned MAGA.”

The list includes titans of Bay Area venture capital like Greylock’s Reid Hoffman, a major Harris donor, and Khosla Ventures’ Vinod Khosla, who sparred with Musk on X about the election in July. Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban also signed on, as did longtime investor Ron Conway, Kleiner Perkins founding partner Brook Byers and Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee, who created the term “unicorn” for billion-dollar startups.

The “VCs for Kamala” site called the signers “pro-business, pro-American dream, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-technological progress.” It says the tech industry “would collapse” without trustworthy institutions, and the site, along with encouraging readers to sign the pledge, links to a donation portal for Harris’ presidential campaign.

Investor Leslie Feinzaig, of the Graham & Walker Venture Fund, began the list, the site says, after seeing “countless venture capital power players announce their support for Donald Trump.” Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the co-founders of Menlo Park venture powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz, were among the outspoken pro-Trump investors.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakevcs; harris; siliconvalley; venturecapital; venturecommunists

1 posted on 08/04/2024 12:44:16 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Viet Cong?


2 posted on 08/04/2024 12:45:57 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: thecodont

Article doesn’t mention Harris spent years in Canada.


3 posted on 08/04/2024 12:46:16 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont
Thin gruel from SF Chronicle.

And they are down to seeds and stems again too.

4 posted on 08/04/2024 1:01:23 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: thecodont

Crony Capitalists for Kamala!


5 posted on 08/04/2024 1:18:44 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: thecodont

when Biden chose Harris as VP, FakeNewsMSM had tons of stuff like the following:

12 Aug 2020: NYT: What Kamala Harris Means for Wall Street and Silicon Valley
A V.P. pick that big business can back
Joe Biden has selected Senator Kamala Harris of California as his vice-presidential running mate. On Monday, we wrote about how Mr. Biden was gaining traction among crucial donors in Big Finance and Big Tech. His pick for V.P. looks to have strengthened that support.
Wall Street is happy about the signal it sends...

12 Aug 2020: WSJ: Silicon Valley Sees Kamala Harris as One of Its Own


6 posted on 08/04/2024 1:19:22 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: LukeL

That was my first thought too.

I was thinking that ALL living Viet Cong (and NVA) are probably for Commiela.


7 posted on 08/04/2024 1:43:42 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: thecodont

Useful idiots


8 posted on 08/04/2024 2:10:15 AM PDT by Daveinyork ( )
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To: LukeL

That was my question.


9 posted on 08/04/2024 3:51:07 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: thecodont

“More than 500 venture capitalists have signed a pledge revealed Wednesday to support Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for president, building a “VCs for Kamala” list that now represents billions of dollars in personal wealth and managed capital.”

Whenever liberals do something like this, it means they have nothing to run on and are trying to use “More than 500” as their narrative. We are a nation of 350 million, so 500 in a field where there are thousands of VC’s is meaningless.


10 posted on 08/04/2024 4:47:17 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Paging Dr. Bandy Lee. Dr. Lee please pick up the white courtesy phone.)
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To: thecodont

they are right. but. the smart ones did go maga.

what does that make them?


11 posted on 08/04/2024 5:25:12 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: mbrfl
Crony Capitalists for Kamala!

AKA fascists.

12 posted on 08/04/2024 5:28:32 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: mbrfl

I would love to see a picture of this lily white group.

EC


13 posted on 08/04/2024 5:36:25 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: Ex-Con777

Krupp and I.G. Farben types.


14 posted on 08/04/2024 5:55:20 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: thecodont

Are these homeless folk the Harris Committee is paying to identify as venture capitalists?


15 posted on 08/04/2024 6:03:08 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“And they are down to seeds and stems again too.”

Long time since I heard that expression. LOL.


16 posted on 08/04/2024 6:05:10 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: thecodont

“Bay Area” = Kamela owners.

Kamela is a Californian...... there is no worse description

(with apologies to innocent California Freepers)


17 posted on 08/04/2024 6:07:53 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: thecodont

More than 500 venture capitalists have signed a pledge revealed Wednesday to support Vice President Kamala Harris.

Kickback notices have been sent out aka IOU’s


18 posted on 08/04/2024 6:47:19 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: LukeL

V***** Of Color.


19 posted on 08/04/2024 11:34:35 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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