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Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen speaks onstage throughout TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016, at Pier 48 on September 13, 2016.
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Silicon Valley has moved to the precise in the previous couple of years, with Elon Musk being the general public face of a bigger pattern of tech lords aligning themselves with Trumpism. We now have a window into simply how reactionary Silicon Valley has change into due to reporting about non-public group chats the place the tech elite collect to complain about wokeness and rejoice Donald Trump’s plutocrat-friendly insurance policies.
My Nation colleague Chris Lehmann wrote about these group chats in a latest column. He joins the podcast to elucidate precisely why these rich leaders have gotten open supporters of autocracy.
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Jeet Lord
Jeet Heer is a nationwide affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He additionally pens the month-to-month column “Morbid Signs.” The writer of In Love with Artwork: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Artwork Spiegelman (2013) and Candy Lechery: Opinions, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for quite a few publications, together with The New Yorker, The Paris Evaluate, Virginia Quarterly Evaluate, The American Prospect, The Guardian, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe.
