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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/how-trump-became-the-first-silicon-valley-president.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/how-trump-becam

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/how-trump-became-the-first-silicon-valley-president.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/how-trump-became... > “Trump is the Silicon Valley candidate in every way except that the ideology is flipped,” said Sam Altman, a prominent technology leader, chief executive of Y Combinator. So now that the government has been "disrupted", YC has decided to avoid the issue by fleeing the country? Maybe instead of avoiding the issue, YC could organize Silicon Valley and spend some of it's political power actually addressing the issue (lobbying, funding local candidates, etc). Silicon Valley is home to many fantastically powerful corporations and individuals, it's time they took a stand for justice.

aasarava 10y ago
Yes, this is an important comment. While it's a virtue for Silicon Valley organizations like YC to adapt quickly, adapting in this case means clearing the way for the administration to solidify its haphazard immigration policy. Hopefully the YC staff is using its connections to Peter Thiel and others who have the president's attention to lobby hard against a policy that will directly and indirectly hurt many people and businesses in Silicon Valley.