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We all know the guys, the Bill Gates, the Bezos, the Cooks the Palmer Luckeys
They are in the news when they wish to be, at the very least they are known to write all-staff emails.
Here is the kernel of a living list of those who have expressed an opinion on the direction things are going in.
Tweets or links or news of actions taken are welcome. Searching google news by myself is boring AF.
Update - Sunday Feb 5th
* A long list of tech companies combine legal forces to file an amicus brief to block the immigration changes EO.
The companies include: Pintrest, Yelp, Square, Reddit (no wonder they banned the alt-right group), Kickstarter, Github, Glassdoor, Zynga, Medium, Salesforce.com http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...-amicus-brief-immigration-travel-case-n717146
And more !
https://twitter.com/briangoldman/status/828478743081603072
Here is the brief
https://m.box.com/shared_item/https://app.box.com/s/09dvucfviag1zlwzekupts084xzc8j5g
Update - Late Thursday night Feb 2nd
* Elon Musk is going to raise his "objection level" personally at the next meeting of the trump tech table! https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/e...ion-order-at-friday-advisory-council-meeting/
Trump "Tech Council"
* Intel CEO Brian Krzanich - Member of Trump Tech Summit. Crafted a spectacularly cautious tweet: https://twitter.com/bkrunner/status/825832748287877121
* Palantir - Alex Karp - "we have NOT been asked to build a muslim registry". Member of Trump tech summit
* Chuck Robbins, Cisco - He is posting pictures of Muslim employees but probably that is just a coincidence because he is telling CNBC that Trumps tax plans "will be good for business". Member of Trump tech summit
* The Uber CEO Travis Kalanick - he quit the trump tech council mentioning specifically openness and immigration policy concerns.
* Elon musk said the immigration EO was "still bad" but one should always read the source material. Update: going to raise his objection level above quiet murmur
* Tim Cook wrote a company email. http://www.businessinsider.com.au/tim-cook-on-trump-immigration-executive-order-2017-1
* Bezos owner of that lying MSM rag the Washington Post, wrote "note to employees" that outlined his efforts on a lawsuit regarding immigration http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac...-statement-opposing-trumps-immigration-order/.
* Zuck is "concerned" not sure if in response to a question or by his own initiative.
* Larry Page has remained so far regrettably silent he is also part of the Trump Council.
* Satya Nadella CEO of Microsoft has spoken out against trump on immigration policy. Twice.
Others:
* Michael Dell - "We will advocate for immigration reform that supports our business, our customers, our team members and their families". But will it support anyone else Michael?
* Google Sundar Pichai and founder Sergey Brin spoke at a SFO employee rally critical of trump policy. "Outraged".
* Eric Schmidt, former CEO of google, so free of The Man and free of facing angry board members, says Trump will "do evil" http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/31/14450516/eric-schmidt-google-trump-immigration-ban-evil-things
* Howard Schultz (Not tech but I am running out of CEOs so why not) CEO of Starbucks took a stand and won't be making any more lattes for alt-right customers as a result of his stand. their choice, not his.
* Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has offered free housing to those impacted by the refugee/immigrant EO and has tweeted his discontent.
* Netflixs Reed Hastings wrote in a "personal" statement on Facebook that Trump was hurting his company and his actions are un-american.
* Pandora - Tim Westergren - Issued company memo that "immigration is central to everything we do", but it does not use the word President Trump anywhere in it.
* Spotify - Daniel Ek - Made a humorous swipe at Trump and invited Obama to be President of Playlists but notsureifserious.gif
* TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer - strong viral linked-in letter condemning immigration order and is raising money for refugees.
the following are cribbed from http://www.recode.net/2017/1/29/14428524/roundup-tech-leaders-opposition-trump-muslim-ban
* Lyft co-founders have decided to donate to the ACLU as a way to protest
* Jack from Twitter tweeted on how successful Syrian refugees have been as business owners in the USA
* Salesforce Marc Benioff has tweeted #noban and possibly donated to the ACLU
* Stripe Patrick Collison has tweeted in opposition to the immigration ban
* Etsty Chad Dickerson has tweeted in support of immigration.
* eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has tweeted that immigration EO is un-american.
* Mozilla has a un-credited statement about diversity and a healthy society, on their home page
* Linked-in CEO Reid Hoffman seems unable to bring himself to make a definitive statement, instead mentioned vaguely how linkedin supports a refugee charity, but is aiming zingers at Trump and the alt-right on his twitter. Good Job! (i guess).
* Edward Snowden - despite living each day only at the grace of Putin, condemns almost everything about Trump and his administration.
Big Fans, the biggest:
* Palmer Luckey ☠️, pro trump, is alt-right bonkers and now won't get invited to Zucks executive retreats anymore because He owes him half a billion in I am sorry money.
Softbank billionaire Masayoshi Son ☠️ met with Trump and promised $25 billion in VC funds, matched with $25 billion of Saudi Arabian money https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald...ledges-to-invest-50-billion-in-u-s-1481053732
* Randall Stephenson☠️ CEO of AT&T, which is basically a data center for the NSA, spoke glowingly of Trump, not at all because he can smell the money that would come in from massive market deregulation with only two big players
* Notch☠️, ex minecraft, who still seems very lonely, fallls towards the Palmer Luckey spectrum on trump however he may also just be growing slowly unhinged.
* IBM CEO Ginni Rometty ☠️ is on the Trump advisory panel and IBM issued the the most banal statement imaginable on behalf of openness. http://gizmodo.com/ibms-statement-on-the-muslim-ban-is-embarrassingly-weak-1791814225
* Peter Thiel ☠️☠️ - is 100% the prince of darkness and recently got approved to buy his way into new zealand so he can build a mountain redoubt if the libtards learn how to shoot straight.
* Meg Whitman ☠️, CEO HP, who has been busy buying a football club, issued a note to employees saying she was "working to understand" who might be affected by the immigration ban. You tell em Meg!
* Wikileaks guy ☠️☠️, - I forget his name. I think he promised to go back to the USA if they released Chelsea Manning which Obama did a few weeks ago? which in Trump time is now the jurassic period, so he probably thinks everyone forgot that.
Hesitating or Silent:
* Comcast CEO Brian Robert didn't fire anyone for protesting the Trump plan and instead gave them paid time off "as if they were going to the doctor", however he has to dance around minefields like Baryshnikov as he owns the lying NBC and NBCUniversal execs called Trump "Toxic" and "Pompous" but if Trump helps AT&T, then Comcast will end up benefiting as well. [Sorry perhaps I am injecting too much of my own opinion here].
* Cox CEO John M Dyer :| radio silence I think?
* Verizon - indigestion from trying to eat the part of Yahoo that isn't interesting or valuable, and Charter too, is drooling openly at the future of deregulation of everything especially those unions
* Marissa Myer :| - "Very proud" of not having to release quarterly results that plumb new depths of suck, or announce hackers have been selling hosting on the dark web out of her corporate data center, has remained radio silent on Trump anything.
* Gabe Newell :|, probably entirely unaware that a parody account has a "who would make a better president" poll shows twice the support for Trump than for Clinton (but 84% for him) has remained silent His Jan 17th AMA did not allow any Trump questions.
* Steve Ballmer :|, ex Microsoft CEO, has fallen silent since Dec 26th after a number of tweets being excited about government/tech/poverty cooperation and summits, and NBA picks
* Larry Ellison :| admired Ivanka Trumps foil-heat-blanket-refugee dress at a black tie dinner at the end of January, attended by a number of similar types, but neglected to make any statement about anything, perhaps because he is $1b richer since day 1 of the Trump presidency.
* Michael Bloomberg :| since "thanking Obama for his service", has kept his mouth shut, probably because Trump got ugly in a spat with him late last year.
* Marc Andressen :| - "the 4 lawyers handling the shit I am in do not permit me to say anything. Even alone in my sleep. Don't quote me on this.".
* Jack Ma, founder Alibaba, seems more worried about his business, which makes sense as Trump isn't his president and he has enough despotic regimes to worry about already, predicts a trade war and "wishes everybody luck".
* Bill Gates :| who seems joined at the hip now with Warren Buffet, gave a talk at Columbia U on Jan 29th where they danced around any questions on Trump, the best on record out of Bill was Trump might make his foundation work harder, and Warren mentioned the immigration thing. http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2017/01/29/buffett-gates-visit-columbia-talk-trump-administration
* Snapchat - well they are in their pre-3 billion IPO "shush we're all going to get insanely rich" period so I think perhaps they're not going to lead the way on anything.
* Richard saul wurman - TED Talks - I don't know much about him but this is surprising, he has been silent AFAIK
Trivia Round
* Brock Pierce: bitcoin entrepreneur. Brock believes Trump will drive people to bitcoin because of uncertainty fear etc. Trivia: Brock Pierce was the owner of a 2005 WOW gold farmer, IGE, that used Chinese workers to make bank. Steve Bannon sniffed it out and joined the board in 2005 and used his old rolodex to flog it to Goldman Sachs a year later, dazzled by money in gaming, were IMO hoodwinked to pay $60m to buy everyone out, only to see the whole edifice crumble to dust in their hands. I doubt Steve Bannon has any good business leads at GS anymore https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/823927944271851524 A real fascinating story this whole period was too! https://twitter.com/brockpierce/status/785903487619993604 <-- a link that Brock, like all good bitcoin evangelists for whom all news is good news, is not afraid to promote.
I have marked the powers of darkness with the handy-dandy and totally unbiased ☠️ emoji. If this bothers you, pretend it is an angel.
The ones that are keeping it zipped so far are denoted by :|
Anyone else?
By all means tech hedge fund billionaires too.
I can edit the OP with input received.
If this is an inappropriate topic for Gaf to be hosting please delete it and I am sorry for raising it.
We all know the guys, the Bill Gates, the Bezos, the Cooks the Palmer Luckeys
They are in the news when they wish to be, at the very least they are known to write all-staff emails.
Here is the kernel of a living list of those who have expressed an opinion on the direction things are going in.
Tweets or links or news of actions taken are welcome. Searching google news by myself is boring AF.
Update - Sunday Feb 5th
* A long list of tech companies combine legal forces to file an amicus brief to block the immigration changes EO.
The companies include: Pintrest, Yelp, Square, Reddit (no wonder they banned the alt-right group), Kickstarter, Github, Glassdoor, Zynga, Medium, Salesforce.com http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...-amicus-brief-immigration-travel-case-n717146
And more !
https://twitter.com/briangoldman/status/828478743081603072
Here is the brief
https://m.box.com/shared_item/https://app.box.com/s/09dvucfviag1zlwzekupts084xzc8j5g
Update - Late Thursday night Feb 2nd
* Elon Musk is going to raise his "objection level" personally at the next meeting of the trump tech table! https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/e...ion-order-at-friday-advisory-council-meeting/
Trump "Tech Council"
* Intel CEO Brian Krzanich - Member of Trump Tech Summit. Crafted a spectacularly cautious tweet: https://twitter.com/bkrunner/status/825832748287877121
* Palantir - Alex Karp - "we have NOT been asked to build a muslim registry". Member of Trump tech summit
* Chuck Robbins, Cisco - He is posting pictures of Muslim employees but probably that is just a coincidence because he is telling CNBC that Trumps tax plans "will be good for business". Member of Trump tech summit
* The Uber CEO Travis Kalanick - he quit the trump tech council mentioning specifically openness and immigration policy concerns.
* Elon musk said the immigration EO was "still bad" but one should always read the source material. Update: going to raise his objection level above quiet murmur
* Tim Cook wrote a company email. http://www.businessinsider.com.au/tim-cook-on-trump-immigration-executive-order-2017-1
* Bezos owner of that lying MSM rag the Washington Post, wrote "note to employees" that outlined his efforts on a lawsuit regarding immigration http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac...-statement-opposing-trumps-immigration-order/.
* Zuck is "concerned" not sure if in response to a question or by his own initiative.
* Larry Page has remained so far regrettably silent he is also part of the Trump Council.
* Satya Nadella CEO of Microsoft has spoken out against trump on immigration policy. Twice.
Others:
* Michael Dell - "We will advocate for immigration reform that supports our business, our customers, our team members and their families". But will it support anyone else Michael?
* Google Sundar Pichai and founder Sergey Brin spoke at a SFO employee rally critical of trump policy. "Outraged".
* Eric Schmidt, former CEO of google, so free of The Man and free of facing angry board members, says Trump will "do evil" http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/31/14450516/eric-schmidt-google-trump-immigration-ban-evil-things
* Howard Schultz (Not tech but I am running out of CEOs so why not) CEO of Starbucks took a stand and won't be making any more lattes for alt-right customers as a result of his stand. their choice, not his.
* Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has offered free housing to those impacted by the refugee/immigrant EO and has tweeted his discontent.
* Netflixs Reed Hastings wrote in a "personal" statement on Facebook that Trump was hurting his company and his actions are un-american.
* Pandora - Tim Westergren - Issued company memo that "immigration is central to everything we do", but it does not use the word President Trump anywhere in it.
* Spotify - Daniel Ek - Made a humorous swipe at Trump and invited Obama to be President of Playlists but notsureifserious.gif
* TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer - strong viral linked-in letter condemning immigration order and is raising money for refugees.
the following are cribbed from http://www.recode.net/2017/1/29/14428524/roundup-tech-leaders-opposition-trump-muslim-ban
* Lyft co-founders have decided to donate to the ACLU as a way to protest
* Jack from Twitter tweeted on how successful Syrian refugees have been as business owners in the USA
* Salesforce Marc Benioff has tweeted #noban and possibly donated to the ACLU
* Stripe Patrick Collison has tweeted in opposition to the immigration ban
* Etsty Chad Dickerson has tweeted in support of immigration.
* eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has tweeted that immigration EO is un-american.
* Mozilla has a un-credited statement about diversity and a healthy society, on their home page
* Linked-in CEO Reid Hoffman seems unable to bring himself to make a definitive statement, instead mentioned vaguely how linkedin supports a refugee charity, but is aiming zingers at Trump and the alt-right on his twitter. Good Job! (i guess).
* Edward Snowden - despite living each day only at the grace of Putin, condemns almost everything about Trump and his administration.
Big Fans, the biggest:
* Palmer Luckey ☠️, pro trump, is alt-right bonkers and now won't get invited to Zucks executive retreats anymore because He owes him half a billion in I am sorry money.
Softbank billionaire Masayoshi Son ☠️ met with Trump and promised $25 billion in VC funds, matched with $25 billion of Saudi Arabian money https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald...ledges-to-invest-50-billion-in-u-s-1481053732
* Randall Stephenson☠️ CEO of AT&T, which is basically a data center for the NSA, spoke glowingly of Trump, not at all because he can smell the money that would come in from massive market deregulation with only two big players
* Notch☠️, ex minecraft, who still seems very lonely, fallls towards the Palmer Luckey spectrum on trump however he may also just be growing slowly unhinged.
* IBM CEO Ginni Rometty ☠️ is on the Trump advisory panel and IBM issued the the most banal statement imaginable on behalf of openness. http://gizmodo.com/ibms-statement-on-the-muslim-ban-is-embarrassingly-weak-1791814225
* Peter Thiel ☠️☠️ - is 100% the prince of darkness and recently got approved to buy his way into new zealand so he can build a mountain redoubt if the libtards learn how to shoot straight.
* Meg Whitman ☠️, CEO HP, who has been busy buying a football club, issued a note to employees saying she was "working to understand" who might be affected by the immigration ban. You tell em Meg!
* Wikileaks guy ☠️☠️, - I forget his name. I think he promised to go back to the USA if they released Chelsea Manning which Obama did a few weeks ago? which in Trump time is now the jurassic period, so he probably thinks everyone forgot that.
Hesitating or Silent:
* Comcast CEO Brian Robert didn't fire anyone for protesting the Trump plan and instead gave them paid time off "as if they were going to the doctor", however he has to dance around minefields like Baryshnikov as he owns the lying NBC and NBCUniversal execs called Trump "Toxic" and "Pompous" but if Trump helps AT&T, then Comcast will end up benefiting as well. [Sorry perhaps I am injecting too much of my own opinion here].
* Cox CEO John M Dyer :| radio silence I think?
* Verizon - indigestion from trying to eat the part of Yahoo that isn't interesting or valuable, and Charter too, is drooling openly at the future of deregulation of everything especially those unions
* Marissa Myer :| - "Very proud" of not having to release quarterly results that plumb new depths of suck, or announce hackers have been selling hosting on the dark web out of her corporate data center, has remained radio silent on Trump anything.
* Gabe Newell :|, probably entirely unaware that a parody account has a "who would make a better president" poll shows twice the support for Trump than for Clinton (but 84% for him) has remained silent His Jan 17th AMA did not allow any Trump questions.
* Steve Ballmer :|, ex Microsoft CEO, has fallen silent since Dec 26th after a number of tweets being excited about government/tech/poverty cooperation and summits, and NBA picks
* Larry Ellison :| admired Ivanka Trumps foil-heat-blanket-refugee dress at a black tie dinner at the end of January, attended by a number of similar types, but neglected to make any statement about anything, perhaps because he is $1b richer since day 1 of the Trump presidency.
* Michael Bloomberg :| since "thanking Obama for his service", has kept his mouth shut, probably because Trump got ugly in a spat with him late last year.
* Marc Andressen :| - "the 4 lawyers handling the shit I am in do not permit me to say anything. Even alone in my sleep. Don't quote me on this.".
* Jack Ma, founder Alibaba, seems more worried about his business, which makes sense as Trump isn't his president and he has enough despotic regimes to worry about already, predicts a trade war and "wishes everybody luck".
* Bill Gates :| who seems joined at the hip now with Warren Buffet, gave a talk at Columbia U on Jan 29th where they danced around any questions on Trump, the best on record out of Bill was Trump might make his foundation work harder, and Warren mentioned the immigration thing. http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2017/01/29/buffett-gates-visit-columbia-talk-trump-administration
* Snapchat - well they are in their pre-3 billion IPO "shush we're all going to get insanely rich" period so I think perhaps they're not going to lead the way on anything.
* Richard saul wurman - TED Talks - I don't know much about him but this is surprising, he has been silent AFAIK
Trivia Round
* Brock Pierce: bitcoin entrepreneur. Brock believes Trump will drive people to bitcoin because of uncertainty fear etc. Trivia: Brock Pierce was the owner of a 2005 WOW gold farmer, IGE, that used Chinese workers to make bank. Steve Bannon sniffed it out and joined the board in 2005 and used his old rolodex to flog it to Goldman Sachs a year later, dazzled by money in gaming, were IMO hoodwinked to pay $60m to buy everyone out, only to see the whole edifice crumble to dust in their hands. I doubt Steve Bannon has any good business leads at GS anymore https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/823927944271851524 A real fascinating story this whole period was too! https://twitter.com/brockpierce/status/785903487619993604 <-- a link that Brock, like all good bitcoin evangelists for whom all news is good news, is not afraid to promote.
I have marked the powers of darkness with the handy-dandy and totally unbiased ☠️ emoji. If this bothers you, pretend it is an angel.
The ones that are keeping it zipped so far are denoted by :|
Anyone else?
By all means tech hedge fund billionaires too.
I can edit the OP with input received.
If this is an inappropriate topic for Gaf to be hosting please delete it and I am sorry for raising it.
