“Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz and his wife Felicia plan to make a ‘significant’ personal donation to Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign" after endorsing and giving money to Trump in July. Some rich people are real weirdos!
“Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz and his wife Felicia plan to make a ‘significant’ personal donation to Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign" after endorsing and giving money to Trump in July. Some rich people are real weirdos!
According to the cited Axios' article's Horowitz and his wife's change of heart isn't so weird. He's donating to Harris because he's known her for a decade unlike Biden and Harris has been doing outreach to Silicon Valley (again not hard for Harris seeing as she's from San Francisco) who've been unnerved by the aggressive anti monopoly agenda coming out of the Biden Administration especially by one Lina Khan.
Let's just say the stated rationale isn't the only potential reason for such a donation. Remember Horowitz is a primary funder of Fairshake, which is putting 9 figures into positioning itself as a kingmaker this cycle. After going 33-2 in the primaries (on both sides of the aisle) and putting in major money against Sherrod Brown and Biden, they've more recently donated to Gallego and Slotkin and now Horowitz is plumping for Harris. I'd call that jumping on the bandwagon of the winning team to maintain a high winning percentage, maintain a credible threat, and maintain first tier access.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/05/venture-capital-titan-dumps-trump/
“Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz and his wife Felicia plan to make a ‘significant’ personal donation to Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign" after endorsing and giving money to Trump in July. Some rich people are real weirdos!
According to the cited Axios' article's Horowitz and his wife's change of heart isn't so weird. He's donating to Harris because he's known her for a decade unlike Biden and Harris has been doing outreach to Silicon Valley (again not hard for Harris seeing as she's from San Francisco) who've been unnerved by the aggressive anti monopoly agenda coming out of the Biden Administration especially by one Lina Khan.
OK. Well, I hope if she gets into office, she will maintain an aggressive anti-monopoly agenda...
Let's just say the stated rationale isn't the only potential reason for such a donation. Remember Horowitz is a primary funder of Fairshake, which is putting 9 figures into positioning itself as a kingmaker this cycle. After going 33-2 in the primaries (on both sides of the aisle) and putting in major money against Sherrod Brown and Biden, they've more recently donated to Gallego and Slotkin and now Horowitz is plumping for Harris. I'd call that jumping on the bandwagon of the winning team to maintain a high winning percentage, maintain a credible threat, and maintain first tier access.
Could you possibly give a little more background? Fairshake?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/26/crypto-pac-house-senate-elections.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/republicans-claim-betrayal-cryptocurrency-pac-backs-democrats-rcna166470
Thank you (personally, I'm wary of crypto and it's backers)