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What Will Happen to Obama’s Tech Startups in the Trump Era?

• jerf 10y ago
  'Four days after the election, Noah Manger, an 18F designer-developer, published an impassioned blog post outlining the dilemma progressive techies face. “When I woke up on Wednesday, my mind immediately went to the people who would soon be targeted by both the hateful policies of the incoming administration and Republican-led Congress and by the acts of hate sweeping the country,”' Well... it doesn't sound to me like they're all that interested in surviving, because anyone interested in surviving doesn't call their boss "hateful". If they're going to explicitly pitch themselves as in opposition to the administration before the administration has even taken power, what do they expect to happen? This isn't even politics 101. This is the prerequisite to politics 101. And it seems like rather an unforced error. There is no feasible chance that Trump is going to cut the government back to zero. The government was certainly going to offer services in the future. Trump is going to want those services to be efficient; he's a businessman, not a politician. It is not out of the question that they could have had far better and more opportunities under Trump, if they deliver, than they ever could have had under Obama or Clinton. Probably not any more, though.