Who Will Silicon Valley Support In 2024?
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Silicon Valley leaders have been weighing in loudly on the upcoming presidential race. Over four hundred venture capitalists and other tech executives recently signed a pledge to support Vice President Kamala Harris, while some prominent holdouts like Tesla CEO Elon Musk are backing former President Donald Trump. To learn more about the tech figures getting involved in this election and precisely what's at stake for them in the 2024 election, we spoke with New York Times business journalist Erin Griffith.
And in headlines: the United States and Russia complete a major prisoner swap, Israel says it killed the head of the Hamas military in July, the Senate blocks a bill that would've expanded the child tax credit, and an incredible comeback from Team USA's Simone Biles.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, August 2nd. I'm Juanita Toliver. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Priaka Arabindy and this is what a day, the show where we are thrilled to report that since |
| 0:14.0 | Kamala Harris has entered the presidential race Donald Trump's net worth has |
| 0:17.6 | plummeted by $900 million dollars. Oh my god that's my favorite song. Apparently people were |
| 0:24.4 | investing in truth social as a hedge that Trump would win in 2024 but now they're |
| 0:29.3 | just jumping ship. You know what would be even better than this though? |
| 0:31.9 | It's just if more people kept doing it like just let's make it a billion why not? |
| 0:36.3 | Let's go let's go |
| 0:42.2 | On today's show at least 24 prisoners were released during a multi-country |
| 0:46.8 | prisoner exchange. Plus the Senate rejected a bill to expand the child tax |
| 0:51.3 | credit. But first Silicon Valley leaders have been weighing in loudly on the upcoming presidential |
| 0:57.0 | race. |
| 0:58.0 | This week, over 400 venture capitalists and other tech executives voice their support for vice president |
| 1:03.6 | Kamala Harris signing onto a pledge on the website VCs for comala.org. |
| 1:08.6 | Prominent names on that list include LinkedIn co-founder Reed Hoffman and billionaire businessman |
| 1:13.7 | turned Shark Tank star Mark Cuban. However there are still several |
| 1:18.2 | influential tech figures backing former President Donald Trump that's actually |
| 1:21.7 | quite different than in years past |
| 1:23.6 | when this industry has been very well known for backing Democratic candidates, |
| 1:27.7 | but there is a large faction backing Republicans and right-wingers this time around, |
| 1:32.8 | the most notable of whom is of course |
| 1:35.0 | ex-owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. |
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