Peter Thiel’s donation to the Trump campaign was the last straw
Some Silicon Valley players have now cut ties with Thiel
Last week, it emerged that Silicon Valley investor and founder Peter Thiel made a donation of $1.25 million to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Thiel is a powerful billionaire who has founded, among other things, relatively secretive big-data-mining company Palantir, Silicon Valley’s third most valuable company, which makes a large chunk of its money through government contracts.
Soon after this announcement, tech diversity and inclusion organisation Project Include publicly cut ties with the Y-Combinator ...
