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Teddy Schleifer

27 Oct, 9 tweets, 5 min read

NEW —

We tallied the biggest Silicon Valley donors this cycle.

These 15 people have spent $120 million in two years to get rid of Trump.

What's crazy though is that —before 2016 — they had spent just $7 million over their entire lives.

The rookies —>

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This list doesn't include the hundreds of millions of dollars that these 15 Silicon Valley titans are likely spending behind the scenes in dark money.

So consider putting the words "at least" before all of these massive sums.

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Before the 2016 race, Twilio founder Jeff Lawson and his wife Erica had only given ~$1,000 to federal candidates.

Now that Trump is in office? They've given $8.2 million to Democrats in just the last two years.

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Some little news nuggets in here —

Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz has been fundraising in Silicon Valley for Acronym.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been emailing his network, asking them to donate to the Biden transition.

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Netflix founder Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, are quietly spending a ton to boost Democrats this cycle.

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Here's more on billionaire Mike Moritz, who has spent nearly $4 million in the last 24 months to oust Trump.

Moritz's total lifetime giving pre-Trump? $70,000.

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@JeffSkoll

eBay billionaire @JeffSkoll had given away just a few thousand bucks to boost Democrats before Trump was elected.

Now that Trump is in office? He's cut the biggest checks of his political career — putting $7.4 million into Democratic causes.

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The biggest Silicon Valley donor for Democrats this cycle?

Karla Jurvetson.

$27.5 million in donations — more than half of which went to back Elizabeth Warren.

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@Ken_Duda

You’ve probably heard of Vinod Khosla.

But have you heard of @Ken_Duda? He’s spent millions this cycle to boost Democratic groups like Acronym.

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But the engineer didn't even work for Facebook. They work for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his philanthropy.

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Exclusive details here —>

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Reid Hoffman could spend $100 million this cycle.

He was a special guest of Biden's campaign on a call last week. His message to Silicon Valley's product minds?

“We don’t need you to go and build anything new,“ Hoffman said. "There’s no time for that.”

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