Founders sign letter to Sequoia on Shaun Maguire’s Mamdani remarks
About 600 people one open letter To the leaders in the initiative company in Sexoia Capital, one of his partners, Shaun Maguire, published What the group describes as a “deliberate, inflamed attack” against the Muslim democratic mayor in New York.
Maguire, the vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, published Zohran Mamdani, who won the democratic primary last month in X at the weekend, to advance the “Islamist agenda” and “Islamist agenda”.
The task had 5.3 million views on Monday afternoon. Maguire, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and X, as well as an artificial intelligence company, has also released. Video on x explains the explanation.
Those who signed the letter ask Sequoia to condemn Maguire’s comments and apologize to Mamdani and Muslim founders. They also want the firm to give an independent investigation of Maguire’s behavior in the last two years and to publish “Hate speech and zero tolerance policy on religious bigotry”.
The letter asked the company until July 14, or “we will activate our networks to provide a broader public statement, media social assistance and accountability.”
Sequoia refused to comment. Maguire did not respond to a request for a comment, but written “You can try everything you want to silence me, but it will just strengthen me.”
Among the signs are Ride-hailing Service CEO Mudassir Sheikha and AI Startup Vectara CEO Amr Awadallah. Ahmed Sabbah, CEO of Telda, the CEO of Telda, was also supported by the Machine Learning Huging Face, who was also supported by Sequoia.
The startup accelerator program added at least three founders of beginners through Y Combinator.
As a company, Sequoia is not foreign to politics. Doug Leone, who ruled the company until 2022 and has a partner, has been a Republican donor for a long time supporting Trump in the 2024 elections. After Trump’s victory in November, Leone Published on X“To all Trump voters: you don’t have to hide in the shade anymore… .. Majority !!”
In contrast, Leone’s predecessor Mike Moritz hit Trump in August and hit his colleagues in the technology industry for putting them in the back of the republican candidate. One Financial Times OpinionMoritz wrote that Trump’s technology supporters “made a big mistake”.
Moritz, who resigned from Sequoia in 2023 ten years after a management role in the company, said, “I doubt if any one wants it as part of an investment union they organized.” “So why do they refuse his last criminal conviction as something other than a witch hunt that inspired a politically inspired by a simple book holding error?”
Neither Leone nor Moritz returned messages looking for comments.
Sequoia’s current partner, Roelof Botha, took a more neutral stance. Bootha he said at an event He added that Sequoia was not “a political perspective” and “a registered member” as a partnership last July. Boelof said that “most of our partners are proud of making them express their respectable individual views along the way and gave them this freedom.”
Maguire has long been open with its political views. HE He said in x Last year, “He donated 300 thousand dollars to President Trump”.
Mamdani, a democratic socialist who describes himself, has gained the anger of many people in technology and business since he defeated the former New York government Andrew Cuomo in June.
– Ari Levy of CNBC contributed to this report.
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