Frédéric Jacobs
Silicon Valley Tech investors used to claim they were backing companies "to make a world a better place”, and to some extent they were (fooling themselves into) believing that.
But now it seems like most prominent venture capital partners from a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Craft Ventures ... are spending their days spouting very nationalistic bigoted pro-Trump ideology on X.
Are there any still, not entirely batshit crazy, VCs in the US?
Frédéric Jacobs
The amount of accepted bigotry in Silicon Valley VC circles, especially around a16z and Sequoia partners, is quite remarkable. I'm honestly quite stunned that some European pension and sovereign funds are still investing with them.
Frédéric Jacobs
a16z's Andreessen who counts university endowments amongst its investors says: “I view Stanford and MIT as mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation at this point [...] They declared war on 70% of the country and now they’re going to pay the price”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/12/marc-andreessen-private-chat-universities-diversity/
Frédéric Jacobs
And now … ex-Silicon Valley VC JD Vance becomes Trump’s running mate.
“Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the tech industry as a venture capitalist. He served as a principal at Peter Thiel's firm, Mithril Capital, between 2016 and 2017.“
Frédéric Jacobs
“Silicon Valley can’t let Musk and the All-In crew define its political identity. I still think the majority of tech workers oppose Trump. They need to be much louder about it.” https://www.newcomer.co/p/silicon-valleys-trump-embrace
Frédéric Jacobs
Please someone bring a camera when you're breaking the news to a16z's Marc Andreessen, who said he was forced to support Trump because Lina Khan was preventing his fund to get exits.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/trump-enforcers-affirm-lina-khans
Frédéric Jacobs
Frédéric Jacobs
The standards of compliance have gotten so low that a Sheikh bribing the president of the USA with a $2 billion deal negotiated through a Silicon Valley VC is not even news anymore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html
Frédéric Jacobs
“What’s happened to Silicon Valley? Why did the Ayn Rand–loving heroes of tech become Donald Trump’s bootlickers?”
“[Tech VCs and CEOs] may believe that submitting to Trump’s protection racket protects their shareholders. But tech giants are certainly capable of standing up for the long-term viability of their industry. And for democracy. So far they are doing the opposite. "
Frédéric Jacobs
Silicon Valley Tech CEOs, who have long been claiming to champion free speech, have effectively been muzzled by this administration.
Caught between their fiduciary duty and Trump’s intimidations, none has the courage to speak up first.
This is almost a textbook case of a prisoner’s dilemma.
Extract from: https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/andrew-ross-sorkin-on-the-stock-market-crash-that-shattered-america
Frédéric Jacobs
“A large part of the venture capital model is serving as a recruitment mechanism into tech fascism. You’ve got all these people with these companies who want this money from the venture capitalists, and increasingly it’s seen as sort of a litmus test of whether you're gonna go along with these ideas.”
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/10/Man-Who-Tracks-Silicon-Valley-Nerd-Reich/
Frédéric Jacobs
Alors que l'Europe se reprend en main et re-développe des capacités technologiques souveraines, il faut se rappeler de comment le renseignement américain et #InQTel ont sabotés, avec l'aide du groupe de private equity américain Texas Pacific Group, le géant français de la carte à puce Gemplus.
Méfiance donc quand des VC affiliés avec le #NerdReich cherchent à rentrer au capital des boîtes européennes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wMxldl3Alk
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