Posted on 06/01/2016 6:36:36 PM PDT by Mariner
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Donald J. Trump would not be Silicon Valley’s first choice as president. Or its second. Or maybe even its third.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee wants to restrict immigration while bringing back manufacturing. He compulsively uses tech products like Twitter but is not in awe of the people who built them. He made his fortune the old-fashioned way, by going into the family business, in the old-fashioned industry of real estate. He’s not the valley’s kind of entrepreneur.
Worst of all, Mr. Trump is revealing Silicon Valley’s vulnerability. In recent years, technology companies have extended their enormous reach while becoming ever wealthier and more powerful. Yet Mr. Trump has paid no political price for attacking them, with broadsides in recent months against Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Timothy D. Cook at Apple.
“There is some surprise among tech executives — or perhaps just naïveté — that the tech mainstream is now a target,” said Garrett Johnson, an entrepreneur and one of the founders of the Lincoln Initiative, which connects right-of-center tech workers.
For all these reasons, support for Mr. Trump here is minimal. Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech maverick who backed Ron Paul’s presidential bid in 2008 with millions of dollars in support, is a Trump delegate. Mr. Thiel, who was revealed last week as a secret backer of the wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media, is the candidate’s first, and so far only, prominent enlistee in Silicon Valley.
Support for Mr. Trump here may deepen. Brian Krzanich, the chief executive of Intel, was planning to hold a fund-raiser for Mr. Trump on Thursday night at his Atherton, Calif., house that included “a full exchange of views,” an Intel spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Hours later, Intel said the event was canceled.
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50% of their US workers are H-1B working for 1/2 of US wages...and 80% of their manufacturing is overseas at 1/3 the cost.
Sounds like the boys on the board think that having to hire Americans and pay them American wages will jeopardize their wallets. Poor babies.
Intel’s under enough jeopardy since they completely missed the boat on mobile devices. Qualcomm and other smaller, nimbler companies are taking them to the cleaners.
“Worst of all, Mr. Trump is revealing Silicon Valley’s vulnerability. In recent years, technology companies have extended their enormous reach while becoming ever wealthier and more powerful. Yet Mr. Trump has paid no political price for attacking them, with broadsides in recent months against Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Timothy D. Cook at Apple.”
bezos, zuckerberg & cook; left wing “practice what i preach not what i practice” hypocrites...
The croniest of the cronies.
Not to deny “renewable” “industry” it’s due...
More uber-rich fascist leftists who are holier-than-thou RAT cronies. It would be an incredibly good thing for the country to have their practices shut down. It is exactly the Bezos, Zuckerberg pigs who are profiting off America’s decline.
We need all abusive practices hiring foreign workers terminated immediately. If that means they leave, they leave.
Screw Silicon Valley, let them use American workers or close!
WE the American Voters really don’t give a rat’s butt what you want or what you don’t want...this is OUR election this time, and TRUMP is WHO we want...deal with it!!!
I really wonder what will happen if the H1B abuse is shut down. A lot of multinationals have their own low-cost offshore divisions and employees. They will just transfer jobs there. From what I’ve seen, good luck with that.
The truth is that there actually exists resources in other countries that may be better than is available here. The problem is that the greedy bastards killed their own golden goose by abusing the system.
American workers got the tech industry to where it is, then get bad mouthed for being too greedy by the greediest of the greedy...burn in hell.
Intel took the future immediately upon cash purchase of Altera for $16.7bil.
Tut tut say the bastards.
“Silicon Valley Finds Trump’s Disruption Unwelcome”
Good. Americans built Silicon Valley. There’s very few left there anymore. Eff the imports that don’t like Trump.
They, or we in the business, call it "Little India".
A friend of mine, now retired, started his career when Silicon Valley was 100% American engineers. He said I wouldn’t believe how few Americans were left by the time he retired. If the place got nuked it would kill a million, 100 or so casualties being American.
It sucks when there is a disruption in the Force.
To them it's heaven.
A million of them are Chinese spies.
The product manufacturers do.
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