The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that the presidential election is tense, and relations between Silicon Valley technology giants have turned sour over their support for Democrat Harris Harris and Republican Trump respectively . The two sides have openly swore at each other, and the situation is on the verge of boiling over. Former friends and colleagues are criticizing each other. I’m afraid it won’t stop until the election results are announced; but some people are questioning whether everyone has gone too far by making such a fuss over the election.
Musk, who supports Trump, said on the Aaron Levie, CEO of Box cloud computing company who supports Harris, said that technology investor David Sacks must have been “high” on cold syrup to support Trump.
Green technology investors used to respect Musk, but now call him a traitor for siding with Trump.
The public outcry in Silicon Valley is now on the verge of boiling over, a rare sight in the high-tech industry, which has historically leaned left in presidential elections. In this election, a small but influential group of Silicon Valley bosses, including Musk, spent heavily to support Trump and became louder and louder about their party change, triggering a strong backlash from people who had previously been reticent about politics.
This kind of hostility and yelling can even change the relationship between friends. Climate technology investor Josh Felser scolded a company founder who supported Trump, and said he didn’t know how he would feel if more of his friends or peers joined Trump’s “cronies”; he said that everyone’s Relationships may change forever, and history will never be kind to those who judge it favorably.
Several female technologists have begun to form groups such as Tech4Kamala to mobilize support for Kamala; Edda Collins Coleman, co-founder of Tech4Kamala He said that the left-right extremism we are witnessing is unprecedented.
A group supporting Harris Harris surveyed 225 venture capital investors last week and found that some billionaires who support Trump do not represent the views of the technology community; respondents believed their opinions were highly consistent with Harris’s, such as that Washington should empower technology workers Easier to obtain visas etc.
Some tech CEOs want to put an end to all the public barbs. Mark Pincus, co-founder of the video game company Zynga, said he does not support either party in this election, although he has donated to the Democratic Party in the past. He said in a LinkedIn post that everyone is so convinced that their side is just and using morality to judge the other party is going too far.
