A drawn-out list of Silicon Valley ’s top players have signed an capable letter mosh Donald Trump ’s bigotry and policies , arguing that the bloviating , radioactive orange guck puddle “ would be a disaster for innovation . ”
The letter , published this morning on Medium , includes the endorsements of Apple co - founder Steve Wozniak , Tumblr CEO David Karp , Reddit co - founding father Alexis Ohanian , Twitter co - founder Ev Williams , billionaire enterpriser Pierre Omidyar , venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar , Slack laminitis Stewart Butterfield , Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman , and Arielle Zuckerberg , a partner at Kleiner , Perkins , Caufield & Byers and sister to Facebook CEO Mark .
The letter specifically call out Trump ’s “ divisive electioneering , ” “ poor judgment and ignorance about how applied science work out , ” and position toward cleaning lady , immigrants , and people of coloring . It argues that his approach runs counter to “ the capable exchange of idea , loose movement of hoi polloi , and productive fight with the outside world that is critical to our economy . ” There ’s not much in the means of specific policy callouts , but the letter does criticize Trump ’s giant wall and plans for exile and profiling .
A sample distribution :
We trust in an inclusive country that fosters opportunity , creativeness and a story playing field . Donald Trump does not . He run on ire , dogmatism , concern of new ideas and new people , and a fundamental belief that America is weak and in decline . We have take heed to Donald Trump over the past year and we have concluded : Trump would be a cataclysm for initiation . His vision put up against the open rally of ideas , free movement of people , and productive engagement with the international world that is critical to our economy — and that provide the base for design and ontogeny .
permit ’s start with the human talent that drives innovation forward . We think that America ’s variety is our strength . Great melodic theme come from all parting of society , and we should champion that broad - based creative potential . We also believe that progressive in-migration policies help us draw in and keep back some of the smart minds on earth — scientist , entrepreneur , and creators . In fact , 40 % of Fortune 500 society were found by immigrant or their nipper . Donald Trump , meanwhile , traffic in ethnical and racial stereotypes , repeatedly insults women , and is openly hostile to immigration . He has foretell a bulwark , peck deportation , and profiling .
And here ’s the full list of signees , along with their rubric :
Marvin Ammori , General Counsel , Hyperloop One
Adrian Aoun , Founder / CEO , Forward
Greg Badros , Founder , Prepared Mind Innovations ; Former Engineering VP , Facebook
Clayton Banks , Co - Founder , Silicon Harlem
Phin Barnes , Partner , First Round Capital
Niti Bashambu , Chief Analytics Officer , IAC Applications
John Battelle , Founder / CEO , NewCo , Inc.
Ayah Bdeir , Founder / CEO , Little Bits
Piraye Beim , Founder / CEO , Celmatix
Marc Bodnick , Co - Founder , Elevation Partners
John Borthwick , Founder / CEO , Betaworks
Matt Brezina , Co - Founder , Sincerely and Xobni
Stacy Brown - Philpot , CEO , TaskRabbit
Brad Burnham , Managing Partner , Union Square Ventures
Stewart Butterfield , Co - Founder / CEO , Slack
Troy Carter , Founder / CEO , Atom Factory
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy , Founder / CEO , Joyus
Vint Cerf , Internet Pioneer
Amy Chang , Founder / CEO , Accompany
Aneesh Chopra , President , NavHealth ; Former US CTO
Patrick Chung , General Partner , Xfund
Tod Cohen , General Counsel , StubHub
Stephen DeBerry , Founder / Managing Partner , Bronze Investments
Barry Diller , Chairman , Expedia and IAC
Esther Dyson , Executive Founder , agency to Wellville ; Investor
Amy Errett , Founder / CEO , Madison Reed
Caterina Fake , Founder / CEO , Findery ; Co - Founder , Flickr
Christopher Farmer , Founder / CEO , SignalFire
Brad Feld , Managing Director , Foundry Group ; Co - Founder , Techstars
Josh Felser , Co - Founder , Freestyle Capital & ClimateX
Hajj Flemings , Founder / CEO , Brand Camp University
Natalie Foster , Co - Founder , Peers
David Grain , Founder / Managing Partner , Grain Management , LLC
Brad Hargreaves , Founder / CEO , Common
Donna Harris , Co - Founder / Co - CEO , 1776
Scott Heiferman , Co - Founder / CEO , Meetup
David Hornik , General Partner , August Capital
Terry Howerton , CEO , TechNexus
Reed Hundt , Former Chair , FCC
Minnie Ingersoll , COO , Shift Technologies
Sami Inkinen , Founder / CEO , Virta Health ; Co - Founder , Trulia
Craig Isakow , Head of Revenue , Shift Technologies
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr . , President and Founder , Rainbow tug Coalition
Irwin Jacobs , Founding Chairman / CEO Emeritus , Qualcomm Inc
Paul Jacobs , Executive Chairman , Qualcomm Inc
Leila Janah , Founder / CEO , Sama & Laxmi
Sujay Jaswa , Former CFO , Dropbox ; Founder , Witt Capital Partners
Mark Josephson , CEO , Bitly
Sep Kamvar , Professor , MIT
David Karp , Founder / CEO , Tumblr
Jed Katz , Managing Director , Javelin Venture Partners
Kim Keenan , President / CEO , Multicultural Media , Telecom & Internet Council
Ben Keighran , Entrepreneur ; Former Design Lead , Apple
William Kennard , Former Chair , FCC
Vinod Khosla , Founder , Khosla Ventures ; Co - Founder , SUN Microsystems
Ron Klain , Executive Vice President , Revolution LLC
Walter Kortschak , Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor , Summit Partners
Jared Kopf , Founder AdRoll , HomeRun , Worldly
Joseph Kopser , Co - Founder , Ridescout
Karen Kornbluh , Former US Ambassador , OECD
Othman Laraki , Co - Founder / President , Color Genomics
Miles Lasater , Serial Entrepreneur
Jeff Lawson , CEO , Twilio
Aileen Lee , Founder / Managing Partner , Cowboy Ventures
Bobby Lent , Managing Partner , Hillsven Capital
Aaron Levie , Co - Founder / CEO , Box
John Lilly , Partner , Greylock Partners
Bruce Lincoln , Co - Founder , Silicon Harlem
Ruth Livier , President , Livier Productions , Inc.
Mark Lloyd , Professor of Communication , University of Southern California — Annenberg School
Luther Lowe , VP of Public Policy , Yelp
Nancy Lublin , Founder / CEO , Crisis Text line of merchandise
Kanyi Maqubela , Partner , Collaborative Fund
Jonathan Matus , Founder / CEO , Zendrive
Josh McFarland , Vice President of Product , Twitter
Andrew McLaughlin , Head of New Business , Medium ; Venture Partner , betaworks
Shishir Mehrotra , Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering , YouTube
Apoorva Mehta , Founder / CEO , Instacart
Doug Merritt , CEO , Splunk
Dinesh Moorjani , Founder / CEO , Hatch Labs ; Co - Founder , Tinder
Brit Morin , Founder / CEO , Brit + Co
Dave Morin , Entrepreneur ; Partner , Slow Ventures
Dustin Moskovitz , Co - Founder , Asana ; Co - Founder , Facebook
Amanda Moskowitz , Founder / CEO , Stacklist
Alex Nogales , President / CEO , National Hispanic Media Coalition
Alexis Ohanian , Co - Founder , Reddit
Mike Olson , Founder / Chairman / CSO , Cloudera
Pierre Omidyar , Founder , eBay
Felix W. Ortiz III , Founder / Chairman / CEO , Viridis ; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation
Jen Pahlka , Founder / Executive Director , Code for America
Barney Pell , Founder Powerset , MoonExpress , Locomobi ; plant Trustee , Singularity University
Mark Pincus , Executive Chairman and Founder , Zynga
Shervin Pishevar , Co - Founder / Managing Director , Sherpa Capital and Co - Founder / Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One
Brandon Pollack , Director of Global Affairs , 1776
Amy Rao , Founder / CEO , Integrated Archive Systems , Inc.
Justin Rosenstein , Co - Founder , Asana
Javier Saade , Venture Capitalist ; Former Associate Administrator , SBA
Chris Sacca , Founder / Chairman , Lowercase Capital
Dave Samuel , Co - Founder , Freestyle Capital
Julie Samuels , Executive Director , Tech : NYC
Reshma Saujani , Founder , lady friend Who cypher
Jake Schwartz , Co - Founder / CEO , General Assembly
Robert Scoble , Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist , Upload VR
Kim Malone Scott , CEO , Candor , Inc ; Former Director , Google
Tina Sharkey , Partner , Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital
Clara Shih , Co - Founder / CEO , Hearsay Social
Shivani Siroya , Founder / CEO , InVenture
Steve Smith , Executive Director , Public Policy Institute , Government Relations & Telecommunications Project , Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Jonathan Spalter , Chair , Mobile Future
DeShuna Spencer , CEO , kweliTV
Katie Stanton , CMO , Color Genomics ; Former VP of Global Media , Twitter
Jenny Stefanotti , Co - Founder , OneProject ; Board of Directors , Ushahidi
Debby Sterling , Founder / CEO , Goldiblox
Seth Sternberg , Co - Founder / CEO , Honor
Margaret Stewart , Vice President of Product Design , Facebook
Jeremy Stoppelman , CEO , Yelp
Michael Stoppelman , SVP , Engineering , Yelp
Baratunde Thurston , Former supervising producer , The Daily Show with Trevor Noah ; Co - Founder , Cultivated Wit
Stephanie Tilenius , Founder / CEO , Vida Health ; Board of Directors , Seagate Technology
Richard D. Titus , Entrepreneur ; SVP , Samsung
Anne Toth , VP of Policy & Compliance , Slack
Bill Trenchard , Partner , First Round Capital
April Underwood , VP of Product , Slack
Max Ventilla , Founder / CEO , AltSchool
Tabreez Verjee , Co - Founder / Partner Uprising ; Board Director Kiva.org
Jimmy Wales , Founder of Wikipedia
Hunter Walk , Partner , Homebrew VC ; Former Director of Product Management , Google
Tristan Walker , Founder / CEO , Walker & Company Brands , Inc. ; Founder / Chairman , Code 2040
Ari Wallach , CEO , Synthesis Corp.
Padmasree Warrior , CEO , NextEV USA ; Former CTSO , Cisco
Laura Weidman Powers , Co - Founder / CEO , Code2040
Kevin Weil , Head of Product , Instagram
Phil Weiser , Hatfield Professor of Law , University of Colorado and Executive Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center
Daniel J. Weitzner , Principal Research Scientist , Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emily White , Entrepreneur ; Former COO , Snapchat
Ev Williams , Founder / CEO , Medium ; Co - Founder Twitter , Blogger
Monique Woodward , Venture Partner , 500 inauguration
Steve Wozniak , Co - Founder , Apple
Tim Wu , Professor of Law , Columbia University
Andrew Yang , Founder / CEO , Venture for America
Arielle Zuckerberg , Partner , Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Though the list includes some big names , perhaps the full-grown public figure in tech — Mark Zuckerberg , Sheryl Sandberg , Marissa Mayer , and Jack Dorsey , for illustration — are notably lacking .
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