{"id":948115,"date":"2025-07-21T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948115"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:13:32","slug":"techs-top-venture-firm-tried-to-stay-above-politics-then-a-partner-created-a-furor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/21\/techs-top-venture-firm-tried-to-stay-above-politics-then-a-partner-created-a-furor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech&#8217;s top venture firm tried to stay above politics, then a partner created a furor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roelof Botha arrived this month at the annual Allen &amp; Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, to meet and mingle with tech and media moguls. A controversy brewing back home followed him to the exclusive retreat. <\/p>\n<p>Botha, the managing partner of Sequoia Capital, a storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm, was repeatedly asked at the event about a colleague, Shaun Maguire, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Maguire &#8212; perhaps Sequoia&#8217;s most outspoken partner &#8212; had posted on the social platform X on July 4 that Zohran Mamdani, the progressive Democrat running for New York City mayor, came from a &#8220;culture that lies about everything&#8221; and was lying to advance &#8220;his Islamist agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roelof Botha arrived this month at the annual Allen &amp; Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, to meet and mingle with tech and media moguls. A controversy brewing back home followed him to the exclusive retreat. Botha, the managing partner of Sequoia Capital, a storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm, was repeatedly asked at the event about a colleague, Shaun Maguire, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Maguire &#8212; perhaps Sequoia&#8217;s most outspoken partner &#8212; had posted on the social platform X on July 4 that Zohran Mamdani, the progressive Democrat running for New York City mayor, came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}