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Who involved with the early stages of Google, Apple, or Facebook was a leftist? (I can't name any - no, Jobs's time as a hippy doesn't make him a leftist.) Who
by morelisp 5y ago
Who involved with the early stages of Google, Apple, or Facebook was a leftist? (I can't name any - no, Jobs's time as a hippy doesn't make him a leftist.)
Who was a libertarian? (I can name several. And they're mostly still around one way or another.)
IMO, any leftist influence in SV was killed (or carefully cordoned for marketing purposes) early in the first dot-com boom.
- mistrial9 5y agoI was there and the political lense you are using, appears to be a retrofit, not real influences. The real influences are too many to list, no one can, but small companies routinely delivered products while larger, funded, probably conservative, companies were left in the dust, repeatedly. Jobs was not left or right exactly, he was 26 years old and they shipped products while giant companies had meetings. The lubricant for this small company action was certainly cash money, but the parts were sophisticated and non-trivial electronics with a lot of physics math involved, and inventory problems to deliver. Political-lens descriptions of early Silicon Valley are telling only one corner of a large and active situation, IMO.