Silicon Valley’s transformation and has been marked since the presidential election. Tech Titans Voice to the second Trump administration.
but Melinda France Gatea veteran in the tech industry since her early work MicrosoftImpressed by Silicon Valley’s political transition to power, especially when powerful people don’t live with their values.
French Gates’ ex-husband Bill Gates sat down with the president after winning the Oval Office and talking to Trump about his charity.
Since then, Microsoft’s co-founders have been unhappy with some of the actions taken by the White House, namely through its government’s Department of Efficiency, previously Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Although Musk is the main financial and political partner of Trump 2.0 team, the rankings of those with links to the current administration include Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos, letter CEO Sundar Pichai, Yuan Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and apple CEO Tim Cook, all of which provide the president’s inauguration in January.
But people like venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have also observed a wider shift between the tech world, saying that dinner parties in Silicon Valley are now split within the political sphere of the most left.
Andreessen was a self-proclaimed “reputable” Democrat Telling the podcast earlier this year There are two types of dinner parties now: “Everyone there believes in everything in it New York Times That day…this is what they talked about at the dinner party. And I am no longer invited to those people, nor do I want to find them. ”
On the other hand, the French gateNow more important than ever, people in power should stick to their values, having previously told Fortune that she intends to set more agendas in the United States
Talking about the latest episode Bloomberg “Circuit” podcast“What I’ve seen in the last six months to a year is the people who have said one thing absolutely shifted here,” she said – “Let’s go right.”
“Democracy is made up of our beliefs, our investments and values. We should always put these values forward now, rather than pointing to what some people tell us is the right thing. It’s ridiculous.”
Like her former husband and co-founder, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, French Gates criticized Tesla CEO Elon Musk for being the supreme authority as a special government employee.
The relationship between Musk and Trump have cooled down a bit nowFrench Gates is an advocate for women and girls’ rights, which gives entrepreneurs the power to have so much private business interests “unprecedented”, adding that “no sense.”
History books won’t be friendly
As the DEI initiative has been scaled back, a shift to a more right-wing mentality has also been observed throughout the company.
Here, history will not be too friendly to companies that reveal some of its policies that promote diversity, equality and inclusion, said France Gates.
“You have to look at society,” said philanthropists. “Who is now in our society, our democracy, our state legislature, our Senate or Congress look like society? The answer is no.
“The reason you need to have all social representation in any governing body is because they have good policies based on their own life experience.”
The data supports the opinions of France’s Gates. Although the 119th Congress is the most racially and ethnically diverse group in history, it is far less diverse than the population of the entire United States.
January Pew Research Found that 139 of today’s senators and delegates are considered black, Hispanic, Asian American or Native American, continue the trend that Congress becomes increasingly diverse.
However, this number is still a long way from the social composition of the voters they represent.
Pew found that non-Hispanic whites accounted for a larger percentage of Congress (74%) than the total population (58%), which was actually about wider than 40 years ago in 1981, when 94% of Congress legislators were white, compared with 80% of the U.S. population.
