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Here’s why a top VC says being an outsider has paid off in Silicon Valley.

Sep 5, 2018

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By Melia Robinson

 

Just before the 2016 presidential election, David Blumberg hosted a group of investors and entrepreneurs at a San Francisco restaurant for a business mixer. The conversation turned to Donald Trump.

 

The dinner guests tried to make sense of the reality-TV star making it to the general election. “Can you believe anyone would ever vote for Donald Trump?” Blumberg said he remembered hearing.

“And I’m just sitting there, not saying anything,” Blumberg said.

 

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