#NeverTrump Round 2 - Tech Industry, Silicon Valley, and Entrepreneur Edition

[norseamd]

Includes Stewart Butterfield, Vint Cerf, Aneesh Chopra, Peter Diamandis, Caterina Fake, Reed Hundt, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Irwin Jacobs, Paul Jacobs, David Karp, William Kennard, Dinesh Moorjani, Alexis Ohanian, Pierre Omidyar, Jeremy Stoppelman, Jimmy Wales, Steve Wozniak, Tim Wu, Andrew Yang, and Arielle Zuckerberg.

We are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership.We believe in an inclusive country that fosters opportunity, creativity and a level playing field. Donald Trump does not. He campaigns on anger, bigotry, fear of new ideas and new people, and a fundamental belief that America is weak and in decline. We have listened to Donald Trump over the past year and we have concluded: Trump would be a disaster for innovation. His vision stands against the open exchange of ideas, free movement of people, and productive engagement with the outside world that is critical to our economy — and that provide the foundation for innovation and growth.

Let’s start with the human talent that drives innovation forward. We believe that America’s diversity is our strength. Great ideas come from all parts of society, and we should champion that broad-based creative potential. We also believe that progressive immigration policies help us attract and retain some of the brightest minds on earth — scientists, entrepreneurs, and creators. In fact, 40% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children. Donald Trump, meanwhile, traffics in ethnic and racial stereotypes, repeatedly insults women, and is openly hostile to immigration. He has promised a wall, mass deportations, and profiling.

We also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the Internet, as a seed from which innovation springs. Donald Trump proposes “shutting down” parts of the Internet as a security strategy — demonstrating both poor judgment and ignorance about how technology works. His penchant to censor extends to revoking press credentials and threatening to punish media platforms that criticize him.

Finally, we believe that government plays an important role in the technology economy by investing in infrastructure, education and scientific research. Donald Trump articulates few policies beyond erratic and contradictory pronouncements. His reckless disregard for our legal and political institutions threatens to upend what attracts companies to start and scale in America. He risks distorting markets, reducing exports, and slowing job creation.

We stand against Donald Trump’s divisive candidacy and want a candidate who embraces the ideals that built America’s technology industry: freedom of expression, openness to newcomers, equality of opportunity , public investments in research and infrastructure, and respect for the rule of law. We embrace an optimistic vision for a more inclusive country, where American innovation continues to fuel opportunity, prosperity and leadership.

*DISCLAIMER: The individuals listed below have endorsed in their personal capacity and this does not reflect the endorsement of any organization, corporation or entity to which they are affiliated. Titles and affiliations of each individual are provided for identification purposes only.

Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Hyperloop One
Adrian Aoun, Founder/CEO, Forward
Greg Badros, Founder, Prepared Mind Innovations; Former Engineering VP, Facebook
Clayton Banks, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem
Phin Barnes, Partner, First Round Capital
Niti Bashambu, Chief Analytics Officer, IAC Applications
John Battelle, Founder/CEO, NewCo, Inc.
Ayah Bdeir, Founder/CEO, Little Bits
Piraye Beim, Founder/CEO, Celmatix
Marc Bodnick, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners
John Borthwick, Founder/CEO, Betaworks
Matt Brezina, Co-Founder, Sincerely and Xobni
Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit
Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder/CEO, Slack
Troy Carter, Founder/CEO, Atom Factory
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder/CEO, Joyus
Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer
Amy Chang, Founder/CEO, Accompany
Aneesh Chopra, President, NavHealth; Former US CTO
Patrick Chung, General Partner, Xfund
Tod Cohen, General Counsel, StubHub
Stephen DeBerry, Founder/Managing Partner, Bronze Investments
Peter Diamandis, Entrepreneur; Author, Abundance and BOLD
Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia and IAC
Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Investor
Amy Errett, Founder/CEO, Madison Reed
Caterina Fake, Founder/CEO, Findery; Co-Founder, Flickr
Christopher Farmer, Founder/CEO, SignalFire
Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars
Josh Felser, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital & ClimateX
Hajj Flemings, Founder/CEO, Brand Camp University
Natalie Foster, Co-Founder, Peers
David Grain, Founder/Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLC
Brad Hargreaves, Founder/CEO, Common
Donna Harris, Co-Founder/Co-CEO, 1776
Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder/CEO, Meetup
David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital
Terry Howerton, CEO, TechNexus
Reed Hundt, Former Chair, FCC
Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies
Sami Inkinen, Founder/CEO, Virta Health; Co-Founder, Trulia
Craig Isakow, Head of Revenue, Shift Technologies
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., President and Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Irwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman/CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm Inc
Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm Inc
Leila Janah, Founder/CEO, Sama & Laxmi
Sujay Jaswa, Former CFO, Dropbox; Founder, Witt Capital Partners
Mark Josephson, CEO, Bitly
Sep Kamvar, Professor, MIT
David Karp, Founder/CEO, Tumblr
Jed Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners
Kim Keenan, President/CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council
Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple
William Kennard, Former Chair, FCC
Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures; Co-Founder, SUN Microsystems
Ron Klain, Executive Vice President, Revolution LLC
Walter Kortschak, Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor, Summit Partners
Jared Kopf, Founder AdRoll, HomeRun, Worldly
Joseph Kopser, Co-Founder, Ridescout
Karen Kornbluh, Former US Ambassador, OECD
Othman Laraki, Co-Founder/President, Color Genomics
Miles Lasater, Serial Entrepreneur
Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio
Aileen Lee, Founder/Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures
Bobby Lent, Managing Partner, Hillsven Capital
Aaron Levie, Co-Founder/CEO, Box
John Lilly, Partner, Greylock Partners
Bruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem
Ruth Livier, President, Livier Productions, Inc.
Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School
Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp
Nancy Lublin, Founder/CEO, Crisis Text Line
Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund
Jonathan Matus, Founder/CEO, Zendrive
Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter
Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks
Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube
Apoorva Mehta, Founder/CEO, Instacart
Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk
Dinesh Moorjani, Founder/CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder
Brit Morin, Founder/CEO, Brit + Co
Dave Morin, Founder and Partner, Slow Ventures
Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook
Amanda Moskowitz, Founder/CEO, Stacklist
Alex Nogales, President/CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition
Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit
Mike Olson, Founder/Chairman/CSO, Cloudera
Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay
Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder/Chairman/CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation
Jen Pahlka, Founder/Executive Director, Code for America
Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University
Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga
Shervin Pishevar, Co-Founder/Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co-Founder/Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One
Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776
Amy Rao, Founder/CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc.
Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup
Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana
Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future
Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA
Chris Sacca, Founder/Chairman, Lowercase Capital
Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital
Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech:NYC
Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code
Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising
Jake Schwartz, Co-Founder/CEO, General Assembly
Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR
Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google
Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital
Clara Shih, Co-Founder/CEO, Hearsay Social
Shivani Siroya, Founder/CEO, InVenture
Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future
DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV
Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter
Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi
Debbie Sterling, Founder/CEO, Goldiblox
Seth Sternberg, Co-Founder/CEO, Honor
Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook
Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp
Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp
Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit
Stephanie Tilenius, Founder/CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology
Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung
Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack
Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital
April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack
Max Ventilla, Founder/CEO, AltSchool
Tabreez Verjee, Co-Founder/Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google
Tristan Walker, Founder/CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder/Chairman, Code 2040
Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp.
Padmasree Warrior, CEO, NextEV USA; Former CTSO, Cisco
Laura Weidman Powers, Co-Founder/CEO, Code2040
Kevin Weil, Head of Product, Instagram
Phil Weiser, Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado and Executive Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center
Daniel J. Weitzner, Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emily White, Entrepreneur; Former COO, Snapchat
Ev Williams, Founder/CEO, Medium; Co-Founder Twitter, Blogger
Monique Woodward, Venture Partner, 500 Startups
Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple
Tim Wu, Professor of Law, Columbia University
Andrew Yang, Founder/CEO, Venture for America
Arielle Zuckerberg, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

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[yllus]

Silicon Valley has traditionally not been big into political donations, so other than rhetoric I'm curious as to what the effect of this will be.

 

[Jaskalas]

Maybe the rich and powerful hating somebody is motivational for the working class. If you're an enemy of Wall Street maybe you're a friend of mine.

 

[emperus]

Maybe the rich and powerful hating somebody is motivational for the working class. If you're an enemy of Wall Street maybe you're a friend of mine.

You guys need to figure out your positions.

1.) You do know silicon valley is not Wall Street tight?
2.) The candidate you support is a BILLIONAIRE, he is the rich and powerful.

 

[JSt0rm]

Maybe the rich and powerful hating somebody is motivational for the working class. If you're an enemy of Wall Street maybe you're a friend of mine.

lmao. Trump is not for the middle class. He puppet mastered you dummies by promising you things you will never get back. The disillusioned poor white voter is gonna be hella pissed after this election.

 

[flexy]

If Trump (or any conservative) would really be "for the middle class" and for the poor, they wouldn't require cheap demagoguery and fear-mongering, they could stick to actual ISSUES and propose solutions, rather than using fake irrelevant emotional topics to create fake "pseudo bonds" with their highly manipulated voting base.

As if it's not hideous enough to picture, OF ALL PEOPLE, Donald Trump as a person being supposedly "against the rich and powerful". LOLMAO level 9000

 

[glenn1]

lmao. Trump is not for the middle class. He puppet mastered you dummies by promising you things you will never get back. The disillusioned poor white voter is gonna be hella pissed after this election.

The last sentence is the only undeniably truthful thing you said and will come true no matter whether Trump or Clinton wins.

If Trump (or any conservative) would really be "for the middle class" and for the poor, they wouldn't require cheap demagoguery and fear-mongering, they could stick to actual ISSUES and propose solutions, rather than using fake irrelevant emotional topics to create fake "pseudo bonds" with their highly manipulated voting base.

As if it's not hideous enough to picture, OF ALL PEOPLE, Donald Trump as a person being supposedly "against the rich and powerful". LOLMAO level 9000

Cheap demagoguery and fear mongering like climate change and Republicans want to steal your Medicare and push you off a cliff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnE83A1Z4U

 

[theeedude]

Silicon Valley is going to put a lot of blue collar Republicans out of work in not too distant future. Then we'll hear no end of whining from them about how free markets are rigged.

 

[agent00f]

Silicon Valley is going to put a lot of blue collar Republicans out of work in not too distant future. Then we'll hear no end of whining from them about how free markets are rigged.

Smarter computers will make ever more mechanistic desk jobs obsolete. I recall there was a study which showed those jobs tend to skew red with creative careers the other way.

Regardless, this isn't a situation where factual reality matters. It's become a class issue where plebs don't trust in experts because they simply don't know any, and ones they're aware of are on the other side of some identity line.

The centrist path that the D party's taken might've got some swing votes in the short term, but corp/neoliberal identity's pushed them away from the lower classes where the left has traditional had support.

 

[werepossum]

Silicon Valley has traditionally not been big into political donations, so other than rhetoric I'm curious as to what the effect of this will be.

Well, it represents the first time that the Rev. Jesse Jackson has ever been included in the Tech Industry, Silicon Valley, or Entrepreneurs.

 

[Binarycow]

"The disillusioned poor white voter is gonna be hella pissed after this election."

They were PO'ed too right after the Civil War when the slaves were freed and that rightly put them at the bottom rung. Nothing new here. Instead of working smarter to compete they just want to keep drinking their cheap domestic beer and staying pissed as the world around them changes.

 

[feralkid]

You guys need to figure out your positions.

1.) You do know silicon valley is not Wall Street tight?
2.) The candidate you support is a BILLIONAIRE, he is the rich and powerful.

Not to mention the whole Tim Kaine vs Tom Kean mix up.

http://nypost.com/2016/07/27/trump-thinks-tim-kaine-did-a-terrible-job-as-governor-of-new-jersey/

Gotta love the poorly educated.

 

[Blue_Max]

The candidate you support is a BILLIONAIRE, he is the rich and powerful.

So is Hillary but you don't see her getting much flak for it... :hmm:

 

[Aharami]

So is Hillary but you don't see her getting much flak for it... :hmm:

The Clintons are not billionaires. Millionaires, but not billionaires.

 

[Meghan54]

So is Hillary but you don't see her getting much flak for it... :hmm:

Who pulled your string, Chatty Cathy?

 

[Blue_Max]

Who pulled your string, Chatty Cathy?

You disagree with something I said? Make your point instead of slinging mud.

 

[brycejones]

So is Hillary but you don't see her getting much flak for it... :hmm:

What is your evidence for the Clintons being billionaires?

 

[Victorian Gray]

What is your evidence for the Clintons being billionaires?

A YouTube propaganda video by some unknown internet 'personality'.

 

[bozack]

Maybe the rich and powerful hating somebody is motivational for the working class. If you're an enemy of Wall Street maybe you're a friend of mine.

they will be taxed into oblivion so who cares

 

[Pens1566]

What is your evidence for the Clintons being billionaires?

Jesus, here come the youtube videos and quoted tweets. Had to go and do the "SJW Beetlejuice", didn't you?

 

[elitejp]

I never saw the reasoning behind anyone caring what a celeb or some person that you dont know thinks about the presidential candidate.

 

[elitejp]

What is your evidence for the Clintons being billionaires?

I dont know if they are billionaires but they definitely arent hurting for money and when the FBI leaves you alone for crimes against the country, that goes without saying, you are VERY VERY powerful!