Ivanka Trump is in the heart of Silicon Valley tonight — in Atherton, California — to raise money for her father’s presidential campaign.
Here’s the invite. Tickets range from $2,800 to $50,000.
Believe this is the first major Silicon Valley event featuring a member of the Trump family since Donald Trump himself came to raise money here last September.
one week ago
Trump has torqued up his anti-Silicon Valley rhetoric in the final weeks of the campaign.
But at the end of the day — when running low on cash and in need of every dollar — Team Trump is coming back to the Silicon Valley ATM.
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Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan have responded to the 270+ scientists at the @ChanZuckerberg Initiative who called on Zuckerberg to curb misinformation.
Zuckerberg says he and Chan are "deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump’s
divisive and incendiary rhetoric."
@ChanZuckerberg The full quote in the letter is sharper than the rhetoric I've seen from Mark Zuckerberg to date:
"And personally, like you, we are deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump’s divisive and incendiary rhetoric at a time when our nation so desperately needs unity."
"Although CZI & Facebook are entirely separate and independent
organizations with different missions and teams, we do share the same co-leader. And in this moment, we understand that CZI’s relationship to Facebook is not an easy tension to bridge."
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is heavily funding a secretive group called STAC Labs that is working with Democratic state parties to help them model their data.
New: The email in Silicon Valley that offered expedited coronavirus testing — due to a "unique relationship" — came from DCVC, a VC firm.
They published it publicly after I contacted them late last night for comment.
I've been working on a story today — stand by for more.
I'll share the email copy for now.
Been speaking with DCVC, Carbon Health and bioethicists throughout the day.
Worth reminding PR folks that when you publish something pre-emeptively after a reporter asks you for comment, it incentivizes them to give you as little time for a comment in the future.
Which isn't in anyone's interest.
The PR pro's know this and that's why they don't do it.