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Though no longer affiliated with YC, Sam Altman is stumping for Trump [0] [1]. Andreessen is also no longer affiliated with YC but has been a very vocal advoca

Though no longer affiliated with YC, Sam Altman is stumping for Trump [0] [1]. Andreessen is also no longer affiliated with YC but has been a very vocal advocate for Trump lately [2] [3] [4]. I don't follow YC's current administration or board very closely but I would be surprised if the current lineup weren't in lock step with Altman, Andreessen, Thiel, Musk and others. Please let me know if I'm jumping to conclusions incorrectly. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_LLC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_LLC [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZrLDMA56E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZrLDMA56E [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHWnPOKh_S0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHWnPOKh_S0 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8MOfxD5nU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8MOfxD5nU [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgTeZXw-ytQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgTeZXw-ytQ

senordevnyc 2y ago
So the answer is no, it’s not fair to lump YC in there. You don’t have any evidence or knowledge at all, you’re just jumping to conclusions.
- abetusk 2y ago
  "Garry Tan is hopeful about Trump" [0]. Donor lookup for Gustaf Alstromer [1]. Paul Buchheit "So good!" (video of RJK Jr. talk), reposting a tweet with the caption "they could have done it any time. They chose not too. Thats why ppl voted against them" on another tweet about illegal border crossings [3]. Jared Friedman "The young engineers going to DOGE remind me of the early days of the US Digital Service, when a bunch of SV engineers moved to DC to fix http://healthcare.gov http://healthcare.gov. It's the same energy, but now the mandate isn't to fix the government's tech, it's to fix the government." [4] Michael Seibel "Had an amazing talk about the US economy tonight. All kinds of feelings. Opportunities/ challenges abound. I choose to be optimistic." [5] It looks like there are a few board members that are either keeping silent about politics or are more vocally against Trump and some of his policies, but a large portion or the majority are actively supporting Trump. Considering the motivation of YC, the sentiment of many of the prominent figures and the brief amount of Googling, I would say that YC is much more in lock step than not. So it looks like, for the most part, I did jump to conclusions correctly. [0] https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/garry-tan-trump-ai-crypto-interview/ https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/garry-tan-trump-ai-crypt... [1] https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=tech+for+campaigns&order=desc&sort=D https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=tech+f... [2] https://x.com/paultoo/status/1890191142689632593 https://x.com/paultoo/status/1890191142689632593 [3] https://x.com/razibkhan/status/1890167090692387028 https://x.com/razibkhan/status/1890167090692387028 [4] https://x.com/snowmaker/status/1886672263216504853 https://x.com/snowmaker/status/1886672263216504853 [5] https://x.com/mwseibel/status/1888457501806653835 https://x.com/mwseibel/status/1888457501806653835
  - senordevnyc 2y ago
    This seems like very thin evidence to support your claim. But even if true, jumping to conclusions and maligning people and organizations without even doing a cursory amount of research is pretty shitty.
  - gustaf 2y ago
    I definately have never donated to Donald Trump and would never. It would have been easy to google tech for campaigns https://www.techforcampaigns.org/ https://www.techforcampaigns.org/.
    - abetusk 2y ago
      My apologies on this.

senordevnyc 2y ago

So the answer is no, it’s not fair to lump YC in there. You don’t have any evidence or knowledge at all, you’re just jumping to conclusions.

abetusk 2y ago
"Garry Tan is hopeful about Trump" [0]. Donor lookup for Gustaf Alstromer [1]. Paul Buchheit "So good!" (video of RJK Jr. talk), reposting a tweet with the caption "they could have done it any time. They chose not too. Thats why ppl voted against them" on another tweet about illegal border crossings [3]. Jared Friedman "The young engineers going to DOGE remind me of the early days of the US Digital Service, when a bunch of SV engineers moved to DC to fix http://healthcare.gov http://healthcare.gov. It's the same energy, but now the mandate isn't to fix the government's tech, it's to fix the government." [4] Michael Seibel "Had an amazing talk about the US economy tonight. All kinds of feelings. Opportunities/ challenges abound. I choose to be optimistic." [5] It looks like there are a few board members that are either keeping silent about politics or are more vocally against Trump and some of his policies, but a large portion or the majority are actively supporting Trump. Considering the motivation of YC, the sentiment of many of the prominent figures and the brief amount of Googling, I would say that YC is much more in lock step than not. So it looks like, for the most part, I did jump to conclusions correctly. [0] https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/garry-tan-trump-ai-crypto-interview/ https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/garry-tan-trump-ai-crypt... [1] https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=tech+for+campaigns&order=desc&sort=D https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=tech+f... [2] https://x.com/paultoo/status/1890191142689632593 https://x.com/paultoo/status/1890191142689632593 [3] https://x.com/razibkhan/status/1890167090692387028 https://x.com/razibkhan/status/1890167090692387028 [4] https://x.com/snowmaker/status/1886672263216504853 https://x.com/snowmaker/status/1886672263216504853 [5] https://x.com/mwseibel/status/1888457501806653835 https://x.com/mwseibel/status/1888457501806653835
- senordevnyc 2y ago
  This seems like very thin evidence to support your claim. But even if true, jumping to conclusions and maligning people and organizations without even doing a cursory amount of research is pretty shitty.
- gustaf 2y ago
  I definately have never donated to Donald Trump and would never. It would have been easy to google tech for campaigns https://www.techforcampaigns.org/ https://www.techforcampaigns.org/.
  - abetusk 2y ago
    My apologies on this.