"In posts on X and an opinion column penned for The San Francisco Standard, Hoffman writes: "We in Silicon Valley can't bend the knee to Trump. We can't shrink away and hope the crisis fades. Hope without action is not a strategy -- it's an invitation for Trump to trample whatever he can see, including our own business and security interests.""
"There's been some pushback among the most powerful in the Valley against these deaths. Besides Hoffman, a longtime critic of Trump, billionaire VC Vinod Khosla most been the most vocal, characterizing the White House and crew as "a conscious-less administration." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have also expressed concern over the Border Patrol incidents."
"Still, many of the largest tech companies depend on the federal government for business, including AI regulation, tariffs that affect the costs of their products, and massive, lucrative contracts to supply the U.S. government with technology. (OpenAI even got in a bit of hot water in November after its CFO said, and later walked back, that the company wanted the feds to backstop their loans, essentially guaranteeing payment so the AI lab could get more favorable rates.)"
Reid Hoffman urges Silicon Valley leaders to stop pacifying President Trump and to move beyond mere condemnation after two American citizens were killed by Border Patrol agents. He warns that hope without action invites Trump to trample business and security interests. Some powerful figures in the Valley have pushed back, with Vinod Khosla calling the White House "a conscious-less administration." CEOs including Sam Altman, Tim Cook, and Dario Amodei expressed concern, though many distanced their critiques from the President. Hoffman argues that inaction is not neutrality and many tech firms depend on federal regulation, tariffs, and government contracts. Tech workers have petitioned CEOs to demand ICE leave U.S. cities.
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