Comment by slowin
3 days ago
Some of us care about the ethics of those we work with. Being a Zionist is also a brand risk. Just look at Vercel when their CEO met with Netanyahu. Many people canceled their accounts and now will never use Vercel. Mainly I don't want to work with people who are enthusiastic about committing genocide, as so many VCs are.
I don’t follow the logic. Since when does the act of meeting with someone mean you’ve adopted their beliefs? Do you adopt the beliefs of everyone you’ve met?
What if you've met both a Zionist and an anti-Zionist? What does that make you?
Raising money from someone and putting them on your board is more than "meeting with them".
For sure. But that's not what you said before. And Netanyahu isn't on Vercel's board, nor did Netanyahu raise money for him. The only news I see about this is a brouhaha over a selfie and a meeting in NYC with different tech business leaders.
So I don't quite know what you're on about.
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This is a really dumb take. You're relying on a straw man (nobody claimed the CEO adopted his beliefs; they're talking about brand risk) and a category mistake (treating a high-level corporate photo-op like bumping into someone at a coffee shop). You can do better.
People have the responsibility to say what they mean and make their arguments clear and well understood.
He said that being a Zionist is a brand risk. The implication is that the CEO of Vercel is a Zionist.
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