LinkedIn cofounder and major Democratic donor Reid Hoffman delivered candid criticism of his own party on Joe Lonsdale’s American Optimist podcast this week, saying Democrats “really did alienate a section of Silicon Valley” during the last election cycle.
Hoffman, long recognized as a political power broker and tech visionary, did not mince words as he lamented the shifting relationship between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party. “I regret this and wish it didn’t happen, but I think the Democratic Party really did alienate a section of Silicon Valley and the tech people—whether it was attacks on crypto, whether it was, you know, kind of just attacks on Big Tech, all these things,” he said, reflecting on a schism he regards as increasingly dangerous for the party and the U.S. technology sector.
