Technology executives feature heavily on the list with Aaron Levie of Cloud company, Box, Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp and Michael Lynton, chairman of Snap among the signees. Venture capitalist Ron Conway, entrepreneur Mark Cuban and former LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman are all big names from Silicon Valley who have publicly declared their support in the letter.
Harris has also won the backing of James Murdoch, former CEO of 21st Century Fox and an heir to the Murdoch family media empire, Barry Diller, former CEO of Paramount and Fox Inc., and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the founder and managing partner of Wndr as well as former chairman of Walt Disney Studios.
Philanthropists Lynn Forester de Rothschild and Laurene Powell Jobs have signed while Ted Leonsis, owner of the NBA’s Washington Wizards, WNBA’s Mystics and the NHL’s Washington Capitals, and billionaire businessman Magic Johnson represent the world of sport.
Steve Westly, managing director of the Westly Group has also signed, setting himself firmly in opposition to Elon Musk, owner of Tesla where he was formerly a board member. Musk is endorsing Team Trump, feverishly using his platform, X, to publish posts about Harris, including a deepfake video that seemed to contravene X’s own publishing rules. Musk is reported to have pledged $45m a month to the Trump campaign.
He joins the Winklevoss twins, former Democratic donor Allison Huynh, and investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in supporting Trump.
