It's also just a very strange stance to take, since if you listen to most people working in start ups in technology their pitch is almost always expressly polit

It's also just a very strange stance to take, since if you listen to most people working in start ups in technology their pitch is almost always expressly political. Whether it's the libertarian principles of some developing the early web, or talk of "democratizing", there's always some political aspect of changing the world.