When I sat down with Slate's Natasha Pawa, I had a question about how he has been spending his time.

Between J.D. Vance's announcement last week, the Biden news over the past weekend,

how much time do you think you have spent thinking about Silicon Valley's

reaction reading about Silicon Valley's reaction and listening to

Silicon Valley's reaction over the past few days. I think probably 23 out of 24 hours of each day.

Oh my God.

It's truly inescapable in my online and real world orbits these days.

Nittish covers business and tech for Slate and he's been writing about what Silicon Valley CEOs and investors want out of this election,

especially a very vocal group of them.

Elon Musk, Peter Teal, David Sachs, Mark Andreson, just to name a few, who are throwing their weight

behind former President Trump and Jadie Vance. I was trying to compare and contrast

some of their like old posters even just like last month and

they're so hard to find you have to do so much scrolling because they post

non-stop, non-stop, like probably hundreds of times a week, it's crazy making.

For a long time, Silicon Valley was regarded as solidly blue,

with a bit of a libertarian streak. Sure, there were conservatives

like Teal, but they were few and far between, outnumbered by Democratic fundraisers like

Cheryl Sandburg, Reed Hoffman, and large progressive workforces.

But Nittish argues that the tech backlash and COVID lockdowns began to sour an outspoken handful of tech entrepreneurs on democratic leadership.

Add to that the Biden administration's lawsuits against Big Tech and the stage was set

for some disgruntled billionaires.

All this combined, I think, really started making these folks' heads turns again.

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