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Silicon Valley investors 'glorify youth, and it’s a misallocation of capital,' VC says

Only founders 50 and older can pitch Brilliant Minds, a new early-stage VC firm. Its CEO says apps are through the roof.

Fortune

AI Startups Swap Independence For Big Tech's Deep Pockets

It's the case of the vanishing startup: some of Silicon Valley's most promising names in the fast-developing generative AI space are being gobbled up by or tied to the hip of US tech giants.

International Business Times

Silicon Valley is at war with itself over Kamala Harris vs. Trump, fighting in the open and spending millions to win

One investor says they have “lost lots of friends” over their position in this year’s election.

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Trump Offers Tech Sector Policy Flips Ahead Of Election

Fiercely against social media platform TikTok, cryptocurrency bitcoin and electric cars during his presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has recently flip-flopped on several issues that are dear to Silicon Valley.

International Business Times

JD Vance’s ‘cat lady’ attacks are just the beginning of Republicans’ childbirth obsession

Trump’s running mate brings the ‘natalist’ movement gripping Silicon Valley CEOs into mainstream GOP politics, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

Newsom’s call to sweep homeless encampments caught the eye of a Silicon Valley billionaire

But Vinod Khosla is dealing with his own housing woes, and has been for years.

Fortune

Tech Leaders Rally Behind Kamala Harris For Presidential Bid

Tech industry leaders in Silicon Valley rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential election.

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Box CEO says to back Kamala Harris he’ll need see 'a 10-point plan for pro-business, pro-tech, pro-entrepreneurship'

During her time in California state politics Vice President Kamala Harris had to both court and regulate Big Tech.

Fortune

Silicon Valley tech titans are taking sides in the presidential election. See who's supporting Donald Trump—and pulling for Kamala Harris

Elon Musk is backing Trump, but Reed Hastings is supporting Harris.

Fortune

'Olivia Pope Of Silicon Valley' Raises $1.5M For Kamala Harris, Adding To $81M Raised In A Day

A Zoom event with 44 K attendees raised $1.5M for Kamala Harris. Key figures spoke in support, and Biden's exit boosts Harris as the Democrats' top contender.

International Business Times UK

Silicon Valley-backed voter plan for a new California city won't be on the November ballot after all

A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area on land now zoned for agriculture won’t be on the Nov. 5 ballot after all

The Independent UK

War and rising nationalism is expected to spur a venture capital boom in a one-time Silicon Valley 'taboo' sector: defense tech

Software startups won’t be as good of an investment in the coming decades, according to several investors

Fortune

Meet the billionaire behind JD Vance

Peter Thiel has been supporting Trump's newly selected running mate since before he entered politics

Salon

Kamala Harris said Big Tech was her 'family'—but she wants more regulation of AI, antitrust, and privacy

The vice president and likely Democratic presidential candidate has a long history with Silicon Valley.

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Inside Iconiq Growth, one of Silicon Valley’s most mysterious venture capital funds that just closed a $5.8B startup war chest

Historically press shy, Iconiq Growth is sharing details about its VC fund for the first time.

France 24

The politics of Silicon Valley: Who are the tech barons backing Trump and Vance?

As the US presidential election campaign is roiled by Joe Biden's decision to pull out of the race against Donald Trump, we look at the role Silicon Valley has been playing in the contest so far. Long a bastion of liberal values, the US tech scene is seeing an increase…

Fortune

Can Kamala Harris win Silicon Valley?

Box CEO Aaron Levie hopes the Democratic Party can put forward a "very clear tech policy."

The Guardian - UK

Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, a longtime backer of the new vice-president pick, are among those pledging support

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The Guardian - US

How JD Vance’s path to being Trump’s VP pick wound through Silicon Valley

Yale Law School graduate found allies in tech billionaires including Peter Thiel who rallied privately for him

The Independent UK

Stephen Colbert wades into ‘biggest danger of making’ JD Vance Trump’s VP pick

Late night host insinuated that Trump picked running mate for his connections to Silicon Valley funding

Fortune

Kara Swisher says Silicon Valley’s growing concentration of power in Washington, D.C., is ‘really problematic’

“This sort of explicit grab for power has worked really nicely,” she said.

The Independent UK

JD Vance’s Silicon Valley connections run deep. So do Trump’s

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are key figures in a rising network of pro-Trump techies who are channelling tens of millions of dollars towards Republican campaigns. And Thiel is the one who reportedly introduced Vance to Trump in the first place. Io Dodds reports on the GOP’s increasingly cosy relationship…

The Canberra Times

APS 'dependence' on foreign AI crowding out Canberra firms

Default opinion is good tech 'must come from Silicon Valley.'

The Guardian - UK

Co-founders of Silicon Valley venture capital firm back Trump’s presidential bid

Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, founders of A16Z, plan to give large donations to former president’s campaign

Fortune

As VCs pledge support for Trump, Fearless Fund's Arian Simone keeps fighting for diversity

VCs are at odds when it comes to DEI.

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