Silicon Valley is right to be worried about a Trump presidency, but it helped get him elected
“I’D LIKE to wake up now please,” tweeted Sam Altman, who heads Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s foremost startup school. The sentence neatly encapsulates the mood in the high-tech hub. To many in the technology industry, America under Donald Trump means dystopia. Perhaps no other sector regards his victory with less enthusiasm.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “System crash”

From the November 12th 2016 edition
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