Netflix founder Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin didn't sign this letter, but the couple this year also donated $120,000 to Newsom's reelection campaign, so I'd expect them to be people to watch, too.
Mike Moritz, the Sequoia billionaire who donated $25 million and helped broker the summer school arrangement, told Recode that he was trying to help local schoolchildren “and nothing beyond that.”
We'll see what @SteveSchmidtSES has planned, but it's a reminder of how complicated things can be when you're a billionaire mega-donor.
Your corporate and political investments can conflict with one another.
New: Microsoft has taken the unusual step of now releasing a full transcript of president Brad Smith's leaked comments about why its PAC makes political donations.