Q&A with Vinod Khosla on Elon Musk, AI, climate tech, Harris and Trump, the US economy, tech regulation, Silicon Valley's Trump supporters, taxation, and more
“Climate debt is much harder to pay off than economic debt,” Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, says on this week's episode of Zero.
A look at the Harris campaign's outreach to the tech sector, as it tries to convince companies that she'll chart her own course while avoiding policy specifics
they are not convincing independents with their current strategy Scott Kupor / @skupor : “Being more specific could test the party's cohesion. Replacing enforcement officials whom big donors don't lik...
Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July
tech oligarchs depend heavily on their access in washington, so will do everything they can to keep it. a16z desperately wants washington to legitimize crypto, so they can get a return on their signi...
Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July
- At the time, President Biden was still running for reelection. … - He notes that he and Felicia have known Harris …
In a letter, Kamala Harris is endorsed for president by 88 corporate leaders, including Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen
Many are former CEOs of big public companies … Forums: r/antiwork : Eighty-eight corporate leaders endorse Harris in new letter, including CEOs of Yelp, Box r/KamalaHarris : Eighty-eight corporate lea...
Kamala Harris, who began her career in the Bay Area and was involved in Biden's pro-tech actions like the CHIPS Act, sees a surge of support from tech donors
who respects the rule of law—is better for business and the economy, among many other things. @rsafian and I got into this and Silicon Valley politics on the Rapid Response pod. ⬇️ Lauren Goode / @lau...
FTC's Lina Khan says open-weights AI models can promote competition and “liberate startups from the arbitrary whims of closed developers and cloud gatekeepers”
noting that the FTC has now banned non-competed. The crowd of founders started clapping in Lauren Goode / @laurengoode : FTC Chair @linakhanFTC, and earlier, Asst Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, hav...