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Episode 2086: Keith Teare on Silicon Valley's Trump-Biden dilemma

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That Was The Week author and Silicon Valley based entrepreneur Keith Teare isn’t a great fan of either Trump or Biden. But as he notes in this week’s newsletter, while Joe Biden is no dream candidate, Donald Trump is a “big no no” nightmare. But not everyone in Silicon Valley shares Keith’s distaste for Trump. Sequoia Capital partner, Doug Leone, for example, tweeted this week that he would be voting for Donald Trump in November. And other tech investors like former PayPal COO David Sachs are even holding San Francisco fundraisers for Trump. So would a Trump or Biden White House be better for Silicon Valley? Or is possible that in their mutual opposition to Chinese tech and their shared ambivalence about technological innovation that the two alter kockers aren’t quite as different as their supporters imagine?Keith Teare is the founder and CEO of SignalRank Corporation. Previously, he was executive chairman at Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd., a U.K.-based global investment company focused on startups at all