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Workers at large US tech firms overwhelmingly back Harris

September 09, 2024 at 06:52 pm

STORY: :: U.S. tech workers at large firms

overwhelmingly back Kamala Harris

:: OpenSecrets

:: Workers at Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are giving

significantly more to the Harris campaign than to Trump

:: Employees at Alphabet and their family

members have given $2.16 million so far to Harris

:: That's nearly 40 times what

employees there have given to Trump

:: Amazon employees and their family members have given

$1 million so far to Harris and $116,000 to Trump

:: At Microsoft, that number is

$1.1 million to Harris and $88,000 to Trump

:: It's a similar story at Meta and Apple, though their

donations to Harris haven't hit the $1 million mark yet

:: The donations mostly come from corporate employees

:: But tech billionaires like Tesla's Elon Musk and founders

of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are backing Trump

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Elon Musk

Mr. Elon R. Musk is a Chief Executive Officer at The Boring Co., a Technoking of Tesla at Tesla, Inc., a Chief Executive Officer & Director at Space Exploration Technologies Corp., a Chief Executive & Technology Officer at Spacex SA and a Co-Chairman at OpenAir, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors at Tesla, Inc., Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. and Musk Foundation. Mr. Musk was previously employed as a Trustee by California Institute of Technology, a Chairman by SolarCity Corp., a Chairman & Chief Executive Officer by PayPal, Inc., a Founder by Zip2 Corp., a Co-Founder by Neuralink Corp., a Co-Founder by OpenAI, Inc., a Non-Executive Director by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., and a Trustee by X PRIZE Foundation. He also served on the board at Everdream Corp. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Aerospace & DefenseElectronic Technology Space Exploration Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecrafts. It develops the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. The company was founded by Elon Reeve Musk in 2002 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, CA.	Chief Executive Officer