Monday, January 30, 2017

Silicon Valley’s Ambivalence Toward Trump Turns to Anger - The New York Times

Also see Airbnb, Salesforce and Etsy’s CEOs are the latest tech leaders to speak out against Trump's Muslim ban (Recode) and Apple, Google, Uber, Tesla, And Others React To Trump’s Refugee Ban (BuzzFeed); tangentially, see Google, in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans (NYT, from Friday)
"On Friday morning, Silicon Valley was largely ambivalent about President Trump. The software programmers, marketing experts and chief executives might not have voted for him, but they were hopeful about finding common ground with the new administration.

By Saturday night, much of that optimism had yielded to anger and determination."
Silicon Valley’s Ambivalence Toward Trump Turns to Anger - The New York Times

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