Mark Cuban and a team of VC leaders back Kamala Harris for president

A radical of implicit 200 tech leaders and investors are pledging their enactment to Vice President Kamala Harris successful the statesmanlike race, countering a opposing radical from Silicon Valley who person backed erstwhile President Donald Trump.

Shark Tank prima and erstwhile Dallas Mavericks main proprietor Mark Cuban, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Khosla Ventures laminitis Vinod Khosla, and SV Angel managing spouse Ron Conway are among the signatories.

“We walk our days looking for, investing successful and supporting entrepreneurs who are gathering the future. We are pro-business, pro-American dream, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-technological progress,” the investors constitute successful a connection connected their site, VCs for Kamala. “We besides judge successful ideology arsenic the backbone of our nation. We judge that strong, trustworthy institutions are a feature, not a bug, and that our manufacture - and each different manufacture - would illness without them. That is what’s astatine involvement successful this election. Everything else, we tin lick done constructive dialog with governmental leaders and institutions consenting to speech to us.”

While Silicon Valley has ever had beardown Democratic donors, the amusement of enactment is peculiarly notable astatine a clip erstwhile immoderate of the astir well-known names successful tech person travel retired successful enactment of Trump. Tesla CEO and X proprietor Elon Musk endorsed Trump aft the assassination effort successful Pennsylvania earlier this month. And task capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz — who claimed to person antecedently voted lone for Democrats — precocious announced their enactment for Trump successful the election. Craft Ventures’ David Sacks, Sequoia Capital’s Shaun Maguire, and 8VC’s Joe Lonsdale person besides showed their enactment for Trump.

There’s inactive a batch of unknowns astir Harris’ views connected cardinal tech argumentation issues, but she besides has idiosyncratic connections to Silicon Valley, successful portion from her clip arsenic a California senator, lawyer general, and previously, San Francisco District Attorney. But the VCs for Kamala question indicates that galore tech leaders are acceptable to enactment her connected the ground of a broader connection of ideology and unchangeable institutions. “In this pivotal moment, we are agreed successful our enactment for Vice President Kamala Harris,” they write.