Reid Hoffman，一位民主党重要捐助者，对民主党疏远硅谷科技界表示遗憾。他认为，民主党对加密货币和科技巨头的攻击，以及对创新的限制，导致部分科技人士转向支持特朗普。 Hoffman以自动驾驶公司Aurora Innovation为例，指出尽管该公司总部位于加州，但在德州进行的首次自动驾驶卡车测试，反映出红州在支持创新方面可能比蓝州更具优势。他推荐《丰盛》一书，强调应借鉴红州在自动驾驶和建筑等领域的成功政策。

💡 民主党政策疏远科技界：Reid Hoffman指出，民主党对加密货币和大型科技公司的批评性态度，以及对创新的限制，导致硅谷科技界的部分人士感到被疏远，转而支持特朗普，他对此表示遗憾。

🚀 创新与规模化技术的重要性：Hoffman强调，硅谷的核心理念是通过规模化技术来推动人类进步，而公司是实现这一目标的关键。他认为，对公司的攻击和限制会带来一系列问题，阻碍了创新。

🚗 德州优于加州的自动驾驶环境： Hoffman以自动驾驶公司Aurora Innovation为例，说明尽管该公司总部在加州，但其首次重型卡车自动驾驶测试却在德州进行。这反映出德州在支持自动驾驶等前沿技术方面，比加州提供了更友好的监管环境。

📚 借鉴红州成功政策的必要性： Hoffman推荐《丰盛》一书，并强调红州在自动驾驶和建筑等领域的一些政策做得比蓝州更好，硅谷和科技界应从中学习并借鉴这些成功的经验。

Reid Hoffman says Democrats have themselves to blame for Silicon Valley's shift toward Donald Trump.He told Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale that attacks on crypto and Big Tech drove some in tech away.Hoffman also expressed frustration that Texas is more amenable to autonomous vehicles than California.

Reid Hoffman said it's not surprising that some of his Silicon Valley pals have left the Democratic Party.

"I regret this and wish it didn't happen, but I think the Democratic Party really did alienate a section of Silicon Valley and the tech people, whether it was attacks on crypto, whether it was kind of just attacks on Big Tech, all these things," Hoffman told Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale on a recent episode of Lonsdale's "American Optimist" podcast.

A Democratic megadonor, Hoffman, spent billions trying to help Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, only to see some of his former collaborators, including Elon Musk, go all out for Donald Trump. Hoffman said some in tech began to see Democrats as wanting to snuff out innovation.

"One of the things that I think Silicon Valley shares is this like deep view that the way you make massive progress for humanity is creating scale technologies," Hoffman said. "And the principal way of creating scale technologies is companies, and so if you're attacking that and limiting it, then you have all kinds of problems."

Hoffman expressed frustration that, despite being the cradle of tech, California's regulatory environment makes it difficult for companies to pursue some innovations. He pointed to Aurora Innovation, a now publicly traded autonomous trucking company that Hoffman's Greylock invested in, as an example. In May, Aurora said it had successfully tested a driverless commercial truck on I-45 in Texas.

"I mean, look, so Aurora, a company headquartered in California, but, of course, in the modern regulatory environment, where are we driving our first heavy-duty trucks? Texas, of course," Hoffman said.

Hoffman said he sends everyone he talks to a copy of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's bestseller "Abundance" because it shows that Republican-led states have better policies for things like autonomous vehicles and construction.

"Abundance, while you could argue that it's written from a progressive standpoint, is very clearly there are a bunch of things that red states are doing better than blue states, and we should learn from them," Hoffman said. "We should do them."