Your Job Is Political
summary
Argues that tech money flows into local politics with concrete outcomes: VCs fund ballot measures (Tim Draper spends about $45M on Six Californias; $23M backs Proposition 30), tech donors pour hundreds of thousands into school board races ($350k, $285k races), and investors seed Prop 39 and charter expansion to create EdTech markets. Documents show surveillance products like ShotSpotter and city domain awareness centers get contracts, while companies sell cloud storage for bodycam footage via Evidence.com, a recurring revenue stream.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Tech money and politics
- 3:03Venture capitalists shape wealth
- 7:40Tim Draper’s ballot initiatives
- 10:51Tech billionaires and school boards
- 13:19Charter schools and EdTech gold rush
- 17:11Andreessen on public schools
- 18:34Charter school debate and tech
- 20:01Conway’s political machine
- 22:07Tech investments in gun violence
- 24:19Predictive policing and surveillance
- 26:47Taser’s sales and cloud model
- 27:56Tech workers confront politics
- 29:20Our responsibility as workers
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