Reid Hoffman is urging Silicon Valley leaders to stop bowing to President Trump

Billionaire tech mogul Reid Hoffman is to inspire his technology colleagues in Silicon Valley not only to condemn the killing of two American citizens at the hands of Border Patrol agents, but to stop appeasing President Trump.

In the text on X it is the field of thought written for the San Francisco Standard, Hoffman writes: “We in Silicon Valley cannot bow to Trump. We cannot stand back and hope the problem will disappear. Hope without action is not an option – it is an invitation to Trump to trample everything he sees, including our trade and our security.”

There has been a pushback among the most powerful in the Valley against these deaths. Apart from Hoffman, a long-time opponent of Trump, the billionaire VC Vinod Khosla has been a great singerreferring to the White House and its staff as “incompetent managers.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also said concerns about Border Patrol activitiesothers do so in leaked internal memos. But many of them were quick to separate their concerns about the matter from the president himself.

That’s the distinction Hoffman wants to end. He says technology leaders have power “and being in that power is not good for business. It’s also not good for politics. It’s a choice.”

However, many large tech companies rely on the federal government for business, including AI regulations, tariffs that affect the cost of their products, and lucrative contracts to provide technology to the US government. (OpenAI got into a bit of hot water in November after its CFO said, and later retracted, that the company wants the feds to pay off their debts(guaranteeing payment for the AI ​​lab to get better prices.)

Hoffman agrees with the view of the increasing number of technical workers, who signed the petition asking their CEOs to call the White House and ask for ICE to leave US cities, to stop it all corporate agreements with ICEand speaking out against ICE violence.

While there are tech leaders who remain Trump supporters, such as Elon Musk and Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures, many leaders seem to be moving on from the crowd. For example, Cook wrote that he was “heartbroken” and encouraged “decline” in his internal notes, as well attended A special presentation of First Lady Melania Trump’s documents hours after the ICE shooting of Alex Pretti, one of the Americans killed in the incident. Hence Hoffman’s call to arms.