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This just sounds a lot like The Groundwork, which was the Eric Schmidt-funded company that did all of Hillary Clinton's campaign technology work. During the 201
by ocdtrekkie 7y ago
This just sounds a lot like The Groundwork, which was the Eric Schmidt-funded company that did all of Hillary Clinton's campaign technology work. During the 2016 campaign, The Groundwork's site consisted solely of an Illuminati-esque logo, but today has a more informative/generic site offering their services to people that are not Hillary Clinton.
https://thegroundwork.com/ https://thegroundwork.com/
Presumably it's cool to start a company in this space solely to elect one person, because if you can say you got a President elected, it's going to be good business after that?
- woodhull 7y agoExcept the groundwork has effectively gone out of business and no longer has anyone working there. They made a good faith effort to find non HRC campaign and non profit customers after the election but never found meaningful market fit. It was an odd assortment of tech that felt like what it was: an attempt to productize an enormous consulting engagement to build whatever the campaign wanted. It's all an interesting campaign finance loophole though. You can fund money loosing tech companies to work with candidates and as long as they charge the campaign something, it's an interesting way to spend huge amounts of dark money on elections.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoWhoa, the front of the site would give you no idea of that! Though the blog is an intriguing hint that something's amiss: https://thegroundwork.com/blog/ https://thegroundwork.com/blog/ It's all SEO spam.