Posted on 01/03/2019 10:23:35 AM PST by simpson96
The Daily Mail reports that in his upcoming book Wise Guy, former Apple marketing chief Guy Kawasaki claims that during the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton refused multiple offers of help from Silicon Valley tech executives. Kawasaki claims that he himself reached out on three separate occasions after noticing that the Clinton campaign was failing to utilize social media, an area in which the Trump campaign excelled.
In his book, Kawasaki claims that executives at Microsoft and Facebook told him that they wanted to help the Clinton campaign “above and beyond their job responsibilities,” but the Clinton campaign reportedly ignored these offers in an “attitude akin to hubris.” While the Clinton campaign reportedly did not accept help from these companies, they did accept money. (snip)
Kawasaki noted that at one point he attended a Clinton campaign party and attempted to livestream from the event. Kawasaki’s livestreams regularly receive tens of thousands of viewers, which would have been a boost for the Clinton campaign’s online presence, but Kawasaki notes that: “no one was permitted to take selfies or hand his camera to someone on her staff to take photos.”(snip)
Kawasaki believes that it was a mistake for the campaign not to embrace social media: “Instead of permitting only a staff photo that people never received, members of the audience that night could have handed their phone to one of the many millennial staffers who were standing around. I assume this procedure as repeated at other appearances, so the lost exposure was easily in the tens of millions.”(snip)
Kawasaki’s final words on the Clinton campaign are quite scathing, writing: (snip...) "I learned several things from this debacle: If someone with over 10 million followers offers to help you, you should probably accept the help.”
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And some idiots STILL think she should have been President(!)
Silicon Valley?
The Smartest Woman in the Galaxy probably thought: “Why? My boobs are big enough”.
And a sterling example of how Silicon Valley probably donated or was willing to donate millions if not tens of millions of dollars worth of in-kind services to the Clinton campaign. Our system is so corrupt and slanted toward the Dems its not funny.
Don’t just turn off your mind and take the article’s statements at face value.
Hillary didn’t turn down SV because of hubris, even though she is mightily arrogant.
Nope. She turned down SV because she couldn’t take a chance of a non-believer seeing her emails.
Why don’t I believe this? A Clinton turning down money? Clinton probably told them to return to their offices, rewrite their forms, and re-submit the money using a method to funnel it into the Foundation. Clintons don’t refuse money. Ever. It’s their reason for living.
......here is one of her backers trying to fill her car with gas. A Tesla.
Why would she need help from Silicon Valley? Hillary was so tech-savvy that she set up her own email server.
This chump Kawasaki probably repeatedly addressed her as “my Queen”, in his written request to help her in 2016.
One of the topics from mid-2017 that came out....is that Bill attempted to talk to Hillary privately around the convention period and stated in a blunt way...his polling connections said that she was NOT going to take a majority of electoral votes. Hillary responded that Bill was out of date, and didn’t grasp the modern era with data.
I think the same crew who were telling Bill this...told Obama’s own crew of the numbers and presented the case that President Trump was now very likely.
Hillary was not geared or capable of understanding the whole campaign business. Obama and his crew clobbered her in 2008, and she should have put Bill in charge of her campaign for 2016.
“A Clinton turning down money?”
Oh she took their money, alright. It’s in the story.
She just wouldn’t hear any advice. She knew it all.
Agree - this doesn’t pass the smell test.
This is a distraction / deflection.
Schmidt wanted a campaign role at least, and to her, campaign information was power and had to be concealed. She would have had to give up some sort of power (then or later) to accept SV help, so she refused.
How rich that Wikileaks pretty much ruined it all. It’s scary what information can make non-savvy people do.
I think she DID get free in-kind support from big players in Silicon Valley- Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and so on, plus had access to Obama’s famous database.
This article is intended to convince us that she did not, and that nobody did anything wrong, like slant search engine results, provide access to user databases, and cover up anonymous credit card donations (hiding country of origin).
Offering services for free? That’s like offering her a free meal to come into your restaurant. That’s not how it is done by the Clintons. You have to PAY THEM to use your services, dummy!
Akin? It was plain as day.....................
Has that Planned Parenthood flack, Guy Kawasaki, done ANYthing in business since the mid ‘80s besides write books and Mac magazine articles?
My visceral reaction is that Silicon Valley should be treated like the enemy.
They are as bad or worse than the Deep State horror at DOJ, FBI, State, et al.
She couldn’t hide what she was up to if tech professionals were involved.
The true number isn’t known, due to the large amount of fake ballots traditionally cast on behalf of democrats.
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