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Elon Musk Change EXPOSES Massive Tech Shift Toward The Right Over This
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8:20Now PlayingElon Musk's transformation from tech billionaire to political influencer reveals the larger shift of tech billionaires from praising Barack Obama to going full Donald Trump over these key areas. John Iadarola and Jacob Silverman it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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"How did Silicon Valley leaders go from heaping praise on Barack Obama to going all in on Donald Trump?
To hear characters like venture capital firm a16z’s Marc Andreessen tell it, much of their current support for Trump has to do with a Joe Biden administration that attempted to throttle tech innovation. In December, Andreessen said in a podcast that he and other tech figures had meetings with Biden officials that were “absolutely horrifying … we came out basically deciding that we had to endorse Trump.”
But according to Jacob Silverman, author of the newly released book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the tech industry flourished under Biden as well, benefitting in particular from increased cooperation with the defense sector. Rather, characters like Musk, Andreessen, Peter Thiel and David Sacks found common ground with Trump on many cultural issues, and realized that if they asked nicely, he would deliver them exactly what they wanted from the federal government."
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