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Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden.

We go inside the worlds of Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Laurene Powell Jobs and Dustin Moskovitz, who are spending their millions to oust Trump.

Exclusive details here —> https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt">https://www.vox.com/recode/20...
Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden

Inside the experiments, data wars, and partisan news sites that Silicon Valley thinks can help Biden catch up to Trump.

https://www.votwitter.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt
Reid Hoffman could spend $100 million this cycle.

He was a special guest of Biden& #39;s campaign on a call last week. His message to Silicon Valley& #39;s product minds?

“We don’t need you to go and build anything new,“ Hoffman said. "There’s no time for that.” https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt">https://www.vox.com/recode/20...
Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden

Inside the experiments, data wars, and partisan news sites that Silicon Valley thinks can help Biden catch up to Trump.

https://www.votwitter.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is heavily funding a secretive group called STAC Labs that is working with Democratic state parties to help them model their data.

This is Eric Schmidt& #39;s 2020 strategy.

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Perhaps no Democratic mega-donor is more whispered about than Dustin Moskovitz.

Moskovitz& #39;s 2020 strategy, in a few words?

Experiments. Experiments. Experiments.

He is taking the thinking of Mind the Gap "to an ever bigger extreme" this cycle.

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Not all Dems are happy with the billionaires& #39; influence.

The head of the Nebraska Democratic Party:

“I would never walk into Google or anywhere else and say, ‘Your model sucks."

“I don’t second-guess them, and I’m asking them not to second-guess us.” https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt">https://www.vox.com/recode/20...
Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden

Inside the experiments, data wars, and partisan news sites that Silicon Valley thinks can help Biden catch up to Trump.

https://www.votwitter.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt
Laurene Powell Jobs is doubling down on voter-registration groups this cycle.

Powell Jobs hosted a dozen major donors, like Biz Stone and Ron Conway, at an intimate event at Emerson Collective& #39;s HQ in March to hear from Stacey Abrams& #39; FairFight & others.

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There are few more fascinating stories in Silicon Valley right now than a secretive donor group known as Mind the Gap.

The Voter Participation Center and a linked group are in the process of
raising $56 million by June 30 thanks in part to Mind the Gap. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt">https://www.vox.com/recode/20...
Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden

Inside the experiments, data wars, and partisan news sites that Silicon Valley thinks can help Biden catch up to Trump.

https://www.votwitter.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt
Democratic billionaires are struggling to coordinate.

Reid Hoffman put $18m into a data startup he started, Alloy.

Meanwhile, Eric Schmidt put his money into the similar Democratic Data Exchange.

And with all that, Democrats still think they& #39;re behind. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt">https://www.vox.com/recode/20...
Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden

Inside the experiments, data wars, and partisan news sites that Silicon Valley thinks can help Biden catch up to Trump.

https://www.votwitter.com/recode/2020/5/27/21271157/tech-billionaires-joe-biden-reid-hoffman-laurene-powell-jobs-dustin-moskovitz-eric-schmidt
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