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big tech admits bias but claims HRC didnt accept help from big tech
venture capitalist and entrepreneur, supported her in the 2016 election because he was impressed by her intelligence and humor
Hillary Clinton rebuffed the efforts of Silicon Valley big shots and executives at powerhouse tech companies such as Microsoft and Facebook to help get her elected out of 'hubris', claims a former Apple boss.
Kawasaki said executives at Microsoft and Facebook told him they wanted to help Hillary 'above and beyond their job responsibilities' but they were also snubbed in an 'attitude akin to hubris'.
The Stanford and UCLA graduate speculates that if Hillary's team had accepted the wealth of assistance coming from the likes of him and tech giants, as the Trump campaign was doing, 'the results might have well been different.'
While Kawasaki claims that Hillary refused personal help from tech executives, her campaign received millions of dollars in donations from Silicon Valley companies, amounting to more than 60 times the amount that Trump's campaign received.
According to Open Secrets, employees at Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Facebook and Microsoft collectively donated more than $3.5 million to Hillary.
Meanwhile, Trump only collected around $50,000 from the tech industry.
Trump told the Daily Caller in September that big tech firms intervened in the 2018 midterms by supporting Democrats, as well as his presidential election with Facebook and Google backing Hillary - citing an unfair bias.
He said: 'If you look at all, virtually all of those companies are super liberal companies in favor of Hillary Clinton.
'Maybe I did a better job because I'm good with the Twitter and I'm good at social media, but the truth is they were all on Hillary Clinton's side, and if you look at what was going on with Facebook and with Google and all of it, they were very much on her side.'
Still, Kawasaki says the biggest mistake was turning down offers of help from industry leaders.
He writes that in 2018 he 'met with executives at Microsoft and Facebook. We talked about how their companies interacted with the presidential campaigns.
'Both executives told me that they and their company colleagues were Clinton supporters and had wanted to help above and beyond their job responsibilities.
'Both told me the Clinton campaign turned down their offers to help. By contrast, the Trump campaign accepted all the help that was offered by these companies.'
Guy Kawasaki's book Wise Guy will be released in February
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Guy Kawasaki's book Wise Guy will be released in February
Kawasaki points out that while Hillary snubbed efforts to help her campaign, Trump's team latched onto every opportunity given, as he speculates that the assistance could have played a role into who won.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6542557/Hillary-snubbed-Silicon-Valley-hubris-reveals-former-Apple-boss.html