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The Blue Wave hits Sand Hill Road

All Content from Business Insider·Ben Bergman,Katie Roof·5 days ago
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Ben here. VCs are paid to predict the future and bet on the right people, so the wager by some VCs to go all in on MAGA now looks like a bad bet after Tuesday's overwhelming Democratic victory.

On X, owned, of course, by GOP megadonor Elon Musk, there were lots of quips about returning to an era of DEI, pronouns, and land acknowledgments.

On Wednesday morning, some of the loudest VC voices on the right, such as a16z's Marc Andreessen and Craft's David Sacks, who also served as the White House's AI and crypto czar, were remarkably quiet.

Those on the left have been much more talkative, eager to point out that they never joined the MAGA bandwagon.

Remember when all the VCs in Silicon Valley endorsed Trump and said he “made sense”?…

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