alt Hacker NewsCarmack? Also ended up drifting right, but you can't fault his technical credentials.
Wozniak is still alive and seemingly not in the rightwing set, although also too retired to count as "leadership".
Carmack? Also ended up drifting right, but you can't fault his technical credentials.
Wozniak is still alive and seemingly not in the rightwing set, although also too retired to count as "leadership".
Yeah, as I recall Carmack came out against some of the anti-trust actions of Lina Kahn, soecifically blocking certain type of acquisitions and mergers by big tech companies.
Though I'm curious what the take of "founders first" type of VCs like YC on the Figma IPO is, after the acquisition by Adobe was blocked. Whatever the stock price of Figma is now, would they specifically argue that of the two outcomes the Figma IPO was worse for the founders? To be clear, if that acquisition wasn't blocked the IPO wouldn't have happened.