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Nearly 600 people signed Letter to the leaders of the Venture Firm Sequoia Capital after one of his partners, Sean Maguire, published What the group described as a “intentional, inflammatory attack” against Mary’s Muslim candidate in New York.
Maguire, a fan of vocals President Donald TrumpLocated on X last weekend, which Zochran Mamdani, who won the democratic main month, comes from a culture that lies about everything “and intends to promote” his Islamist program “.
The report had 5.3 million views on Monday afternoon. Maguire, their investments include Elon Musk SpaceX and X as well as artificial starting Safe Superintelligence, also published Video on x Explaining the remark.
Those who sign the letter are asked to condemn the assembly of Maguar and apologize to the founders of Mamman and Muslims. They also want the firm to allow an independent investigation into Maguar’s behavior over the past two years and to place “a policy of zero tolerance for the language of hatred and religious fanatics.”
Until July 14, they ask for a public response firm, or “we will continue the wide disclosure of public disclosure, information and propaganda activities and mobilization of our networks to ensure accountability,” the letter reads.
Sequoia refused to comment. Maguire did not respond to a comment on the comment but wrote In a message on Wednesday, that “you can try everything you want to silence me, but it just excite me.”
Among the Mudasir Sheikh defenders, the CEO of Ride-Hailing Careem, and Amr Awadallah, CEO of AI Startup Vectara. Also on this list is Abubakar Abid, who works in a machine -based study that is supported by Sequoia, and Ahmed Sabba, CEO of Telda, startup financial technology, which first invested four years ago.
At least three startup founders who went through the startup accelerator program added their names.
Sequoia as a firm is not a stranger for politics. Leon’s arc, which headed the company by 2022 and remains a partner, is a long -standing republican donor who supported Trump in the 2024 elections. After Trump’s victory in November Leon Posted on x“For all Trump voters: You no longer need to hide in the shadows … .. You are most !!”
On the contrary, the predecessor of Leon Mike Moritz is a democratic megadonor who criticized Trump and in August, in August, clapping His colleagues in the technological field for the national candidate. In A Financial Times opinionMoritz wrote that Trump’s technical fans “make a big mistake”.
“I doubt whether he would like anyone in the framework of the investment syndicate they organized,” Moritz wrote, who abandoned Sequoia in 2023, for a decade after the refusal of the management role. “Why then do they reject his recent criminal conviction as nothing more than a politically inspired hunt for witches because of a simple book storage error?”
Neither Leon nor Moritz returned messages looking for comments.
Roelof Botha, the current leading partner Sequoia, took a more neutral position. Boot said at the event Last July, Sequoia as a partnership does not “accept a political point of view”, adding that he was “not a registered member of either parties”. Boelof said that “we were proud that we have allowed many of our partners to express their distinguished individual views on this path and gave them this freedom.”
Maguire has long been open. He said on x Last year, he “just donated $ 300,000 to President.”
Mammani, self -offered democratic socialist, received irritation Many people in the technology and business community are more widely, when the former New York Governor Andrew Kuoma wins in June.
– Ari Levy CNBC contributed to this report.
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