Silicon Valley does not like Donald Trump. That, more than anything, is probably why many tech industry heavyweights are today endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.
Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt and a bunch of other tech heavyweights are endorsing Hillary Clinton
Reminder: Silicon Valley hates Donald Trump.
Sara D. Davis / Getty
Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki all attached their names to an endorsement letter being circulated by Clinton’s campaign. We’ve attached the full list below, and you’ll almost certainly recognize a bunch of the venture capitalists and tech executives who have signed the letter.
Some of the people named (Sandberg, Schmidt) have long been involved in Democratic politics. Others (Hastings) aren’t quite cookie-cutter Democrats. But, as Hastings puts it in a quote provided by the campaign, all of them pretty much believe that “Trump would destroy much of what is great about America.”
Here’s the full list of Hillary’s private sector pals:
- Miki Agrawal, founder and CEO of Thinx
- Dan Akerson, former Chairman and CEO of General Motors
- Richard Anderson, Executive Chairman, Delta Air Lines, Inc.
- Stewart Bainum Jr., Chairman of Choice Hotels International
- James Bell, former Interim CEO of Boeing; former Corporate President and CFO of Boeing
- Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce
- Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and CTO of Airbnb
- Jeff Brotman, co-founder and Chairman of Costco Wholesale Corporation
- Warren E. Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
- Robert Burt, Retired Chairman, CEO FMC Corporation; former Chairman Business Roundtable
- Ron Busby, President and CEO of the U.S. Black Chambers
- Brook Byers, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- Peter Chernin, CEO, The Chernin Group
- Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb
- Jim Cicconi, Senior Executive Vice President, AT&T Services, Inc.
- David Crane, former CEO of NRG Energy, Inc.
- Erroll Davis, Retired Chancellor, University System of Georgia
- Barry Diller, Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and Expedia
- John Doerr, Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
- Margot Dorfman, President and CEO of U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce
- Candy Ergen, co-founder, DISH Network
- Joe Gebbia, co-founder and CPO of Airbnb
- Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix
- Reid Hoffman, Partner at Greylock
- Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox
- George Hume, President and CEO of Basic American Foods
- Irwin Jacobs, founding Chairman and CEO Emeritus of Qualcomm
- Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm
- Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Sama and Laxmi
- Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Chairman and CEO, Magic Johnson Enterprises
- Robert Johnson, Chairman, The RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television
- Andrea Jung, CEO of Grameen America, and former CEO of Avon
- Lynn Jurich, CEO and co-founder of Sunrun
- David Karp, founder and CEO of Tumblr
- Ellen Kullman, former Chair and CEO of DuPont
- Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television
- Ted Leonsis, founder and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment
- Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box
- Peter Lowy, CEO of Westfield
- Monica Lozano, former Chairman and CEO, U.S. Hispanic Media
- Rob Marcus, former Chairman and CEO Time Warner Cable Inc.
- William L. McComb, CEO (retired) of Liz Claiborne & Fifth and Pacific Companies, Inc.
- Rebecca Minkoff, founder of Rebecca Minkoff
- Hamid R. Moghadam, Chairman and CEO of Prologis
- James J. Murren, Chairman and CEO, MGM Resorts International and Chairman, MGM Growth Properties
- Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor
- Mark Pincus, co-founder of Zynga
- Laura M. Ricketts, co-owner, Chicago Cubs
- Gary Rodkin, CEO (retired) of ConAgra Foods
- Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook
- Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet
- Jim Sinegal, co-founder, Director and former CEO of Costco
- Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO and co-founder, Yelp
- Walter Ulloa, Chairman and CEO, Entravision Communications Corporation
- Wendell P. Weeks, Chairman of the Board, CEO and President, Corning Incorporated
- Anne Wojcicki, CEO and co-founder, 23andme
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
See More:
