It's my belief a lot of the tech VC are autodidactic. They place a very high value on their own certainty. This tends to depreciate academic knowledge. Experien

It's my belief a lot of the tech VC are autodidactic. They place a very high value on their own certainty. This tends to depreciate academic knowledge. Experiential, engineering grounded thinking predominates. And, a historical tendency to seek and value Ayn Rand and "self made man" schools of thinking. They emphasise Individualism over collectivism, and naturally that goes to smaller non interventionist government philosophy along with anti unionism and low taxes. Another common component of this is a belief to be poor is bad life choices, and sometimes even genetic: poor people are unsaveable. Why bother? It's innate and/or their own choice. Since they find and value their own fellow minded people of HNW they aggregate, self confirm, and now organise. Some (mostly older) tech entrepreneurs and creators are different. Bell labs types, European education, stronger affinity to community and social enterprise, less rigid belief in IPR and their own "rightness" Gates is somewhat in the middle. Melinda helped him unpack a lot of socially beneficial choices, as did Warren Buffet. I wouldn't call either of them left but they are certainly not Peter Thiel or Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. They appear to appreciate collectivism, at some level.