Reid Hoffman argues Silicon Valley ‘can’t bend the knee to Trump’ after fatal shootings
Reid Hoffman urges tech leaders to oppose Trump’s immigration enforcement after six deaths in ICE custody in 2026, highlighting a call for public corporate resistance.
- On Thursday, Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn cofounder and Greylock partner, urged Silicon Valley leaders that `We in Silicon Valley can't bend the knee to Trump`.
- In Minneapolis, two deaths occurred days apart, following at least 30 such deaths in 2025 and at least 6 in 2026, involving Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
- Using posts on X and an opinion column in The San Francisco Standard, Hoffman pressed tech leaders while more than 1,000 tech employees signed a worker-led petition.
- Hours after Alex Pretti's killing, several prominent tech executives attended a private White House screening of the Melania documentary, prompting White House reputational damage control.
- Hoffman said tech's power means silence is bad business, while Silicon Valley leaders including Anthropic heads Dario and Daniela Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly expressed concern this week.
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Hoffman is the latest in a string of Silicon Valley figures to criticise the US president on his sweeping immigration crackdown in the city. Hoffman wrote that "Silicon Valley leaders have divested themselves of the responsibility to speak out against the (Trump) administration's excesses," in an opinion piece in The San Francisco Standard.
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