U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is not yet the Democratic nominee for this year’s presidential elections, but it sure looks like she will be, following President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw and the flood of Harris endorsements that ensued over the past day.
Harris has extensive ties to the tech industry—unsurprisingly for someone who was a San Francisco prosecutor as well as a California attorney general and senator. She was at the wedding of early Facebook executive Sean Parker and is close to the likes of LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs, and venture capitalist John Doerr. “We’re family,” she told Google employees in 2010 when successfully campaigning for the AG role.
