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Valley Politics: The Democratic Party’s Love Story With Entrepreneurs

18 min readNov 20, 2015
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‘I’m the guy that got Mark to wear a jacket and tie,’ Obama says of Zuckerberg.
Jeb Bush travels across San Francisco with an Uber driver

The 2008 Campaign

A portentous book by Matt Bai

Unions Replaced by Wall Street

Walter Reuther, leader of the United Automobile Workers, conferring with President Truman in the Oval Office in 1952
Jon Corzine: from Godman Sachs co-CEO to New Jersey politics

Enter The Movie Stars

Fundraising champion for Obama, George Clooney: who else?

The 2008 Crisis

Wisconsin teachers launched a campaign to have Governor Scott Walker recalled. It failed.
Mitt Romney (center) co-founded private equity investment firm Bain Capital in 1984

Turning to Silicon Valley

Beating Hollywood

Marginalizing Wall Street

Clayton Christensen

Lobbying Wars

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger defending the Global Warming Solutions Act
John Oliver on Net Neutrality
David Plouffe, now Uber’s campaign manager
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Barack Obama, surrounded by members of Congress and special guests, signs the Affordable Care Act into law (2010)
Ted Ullyot, building a policy and regulatory affairs group at Andreessen-Horowitz

Many Resources

Harper Reed, CTO, Obama for America

What About Hillary Clinton?

Look who’s talking at Google?

More Silicon Valley Funds Than Ever Before

Chelsea Clinton with Sheryl Sandberg

Key Takeaways For Europe

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Welcome to The Family
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Published in Welcome to The Family

Education, Leverage & Capital for European Founders

Nicolas Colin
Nicolas Colin

Written by Nicolas Colin

Entrepreneurship, finance, strategy, policy. Co-Founder & Director @_TheFamily.

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