Employees at the same companies that Yang wants to tax are putting money behind him. The Center for Responsive Politics, whose website OpenSecrets.org tracks federal campaign spending,whose public action committees, employees, or owners have contributed the most to Yang's campaign committee. Google parent-company Alphabet tops the heap, followed by Amazon, Microsoft, the University of California, and Facebook.
On a national level, Yang is polling in the single-digit percentages in several polls. But in Silicon Valley, Yang's fans include some big names. Jack Dorsey, the cofounder and chief executive of both Twitter and Square, has contributed to Yang's campaign; James Monsees, who helped create Juul, and Twitch cofounder and executive Kevin Lin are also donors.to focus on a new venture earlier this year, called himself a "long-time supporter of Yang" in an email to Business Insider.
Altman said he's "particularly interested in promotion of UBI and understanding of the coming wave of automation.", which he cofounded with Elon Musk. It's building autonomous systems that are inspired by the way humans learn and grow, with the goal of sharing information and maximizing the benefit of artificial intelligence for everyone.
"Now is a critical time for raising funds as we want to get on the airwaves in Iowa and New Hampshire and meet our end of the month goals," a volunteer for the campaign's finance office wrote. Tickets to the event at Altman's home start at $2,000. A VIP pass costs $2,800 a pop, while the "max donor" contribution is $5,600. These funds are funneled into Yang's campaign committee.This isn't Altman's first foray into politics. After the surprise results of the 2016 election, Altman said he wanted to learn about how the rest of America thinks.
“Employees at the same companies that Yang wants to tax are putting money behind him. ... tracks federal campaign spending, ...Google parent-company Alphabet tops the heap, followed by Amazon, Microsoft, the University of California, and Facebook. Nice
Sam is a cool dude. But $2K tickets and $2800 “VIP” tickets? Optics doesn’t seem that good tbh.
women4yang Buy your ticket here:
Damn, this is what we need more, more +++ thank you Sam 👍👍🙏🙏
thank you thank you thank you thank you everyone in attendance!!!
Funnily enough, lists the organization of donor (meaning where they work) as organization donor leaving enough space to create doubt :-)
Proud to see so many who have profited from tech support measures that boost the rest of us.
nice 👍🖖😁
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