1) Their reasoning honestly is predictable. Basically they want, of course, unregulated AI. They don’t want the Biden tax on unrealized capital gains that would only affect over 100 million dollars 💵😂 .

2) they made a very bold slippery slope argument that you can just make as much money at Google as if you started your own company ( and made 100 million dollars) lol. A very 🍌 banana stand moment

3) They said you we will be ‘presto change-o’ Argentina in the next 4 years if this happens 🤷‍♂️🤔🤔

a16z has always been toxic, it just used to pay to pretend to care about democracy.

This ☝🏽

😔 I also don’t predict any founders would refuse investor money 💰 even if you knew the money was coming from people who support these ideals

i don't think that's true. i don't think that it's a majority, but there are definitely people who will stick to their morals and aren't willing to get in bed with the morally bankrupt

I hope so

I used to run a scholarship program for women working on OSS (similar to Outreachy) & we definitely had to make hard decisions about whether to take certain types of money. Not the same obvi but.. just supporting Jedmund’s point that there are still people with morals out there💜

The best reasoning I’ve read is a simple one: billionaires support Trump because Trump tends to benefit billionaires.

The inevitable result of rich people being allowed to set fire to each others' money without oversight for so many years