Of course. A view he is entitled to like any other citizen with political opinions. As you probably know Peter Thiel is a partner of Ycombinator. https://blog

Of course. A view he is entitled to like any other citizen with political opinions. As you probably know Peter Thiel is a partner of Ycombinator. https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter In the article link you provided: > Trump does have the support of one of Silicon Valley's biggest names: Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir. And sama says: > On a personal note, Peter is one of the two people (along with PG) who has taught me the most about how to invest in startups. So it is possible for people with different politics to work together. In fact I thought that was the whole point of diversity, that it was represented intellectually instead of having just a phenotype of diversity. Personally I do not believe intellectual diversity is spread equally across all people. Many people look different to each other but exhibit evidence they are the same person because they hold so many views in common with each other. If you meet people who watch television all day you know it is true. Their minds are in sync with that of the hive. They ask the same questions and seek the same answers. That is the essence of tribalism, which is fine in competition or conflict but disadvantageous if you're searching for flaws in something, trying to found a new business model or find an untapped market segment, because that is where it makes more sense to think like a cross-pollinator. I don't think it is a coincidence that Silicon Valley personalities are drawn to contrarianism. This is probably the biggest reason I don't like social justice people. I don't believe they are capable of being innovators. Their personality mitigates against it. I think they are masquerading as something they are not. I can think of many software projects and I'm sure you can too, in which there is a vocal minority with political opinions that sank the enterprise. The number of lines of code contributed by such people is typically either zero, low or of no real importance. I think if you look at this upsidedown what I'm saying is obvious. Imagine you had programmers giving each other 'brofist' all the time and breaking into impromptu song 'Onward Christian Soldiers', handing each other leaflets bemoaning the local abortion clinic, maybe trying to get former army buddies onto the board...