On Tuesday evening, the mayor candidate of Longshot New York City, Zohran Mamdani, was released, shortly before. The number of votes in the democratic primary school was comfortable, and the predictive market Kalshi gave the 33-year-old, self-proclaimed socialist 99% the chances of beating Andrew Cuomo, the alleged favorite in the race. Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of the New York-based crypto Exchange Gemini and half of the famous Ruowing/Mark Zuckerberg, was not too pleased. “New York City on the edge of Gotham City,” he published and shared the Kalshi projection.
It was a feeling that I was suggested in my X-Feed (which, as I should consider, in response to a candidate who had proposed pilots of state-managed grocery stores, as a danger of my bar in relation to crypto accounts as a danger of my clock and freezing hikes for rental-controlled units. A New York venture investor wrote about “LIBS” with a vulnerable language about “Libs” Politicians are in love Assets. And then there was the damage freedom of those who had already broken down more environmentally friendly pastures. “Congratulations that you have transformed idiots in Great Britain,” wrote a VC resident in Miami. “Experienced criminal stripes free, while ordinary people who mean to go to prison.”
For those of us in the trenches of X, the collapse was a familiar sight that repeated the contempt that the tech elite had been addressing San Francisco for years, with the endless lawsuit of anarchy on pharmacy in the Union Square or the liberal policy of politicians such as Aaron Peskin.
Garry Tan – The pronounced president and CEO of Y Combinator, whose vitriolical outbreak on X led to Peskin last year submission A police report that decrypted in the choir and decrypted Mamdani. “At a party this evening with politically active San Franciscans and we only thought … Wow, NYC would be cooked,” he wrote.
As a long-time New Yorker, who has lived through the Bloomberg, de Blasio and now Adams administration, I will not think about whether Mamdani deserves this answer (although it should be mentioned for non-New Yorkers that the Ministry of Justice for non-Newker, who with the Ticket-Ticket promotion to Turkish Airlines, on the ticket and Had-Had-Had-Had-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Hader processes, and HUDDING-HAD-HAD-HAD-HAD-HAD-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Perks. It is certain to say that we are a rather resilient city, regardless of the person responsible).
In view of the San Francisco Tech Rebellion against its political ruling class, however, I was curious whether the same could happen here. I met Julie Samuels, the President and CEO of Tech: NYC, which she founded in 2016 alongside the Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson with the support of Bloomberg LP, Facebook and Google.
These were the early days of Bill de Blasios Mayor, which represented a significant ideological shift over that of his predecessor. Bloomberg was a champion of the emerging New York Tech scene during his government and helped create the Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island and transform The Brooklyn Navy Yard in a tech hub. De Blasio was partly based on a rejection of Bloomberg’s hugging of the city’s money elite.
Samuels did not go so far that they founded Tech: NYC in response to the choice of de Blasio, but more diploma that they really took care of ensuring that the legacy of the Bloomberg management of the Bloomberg government continued. ”
How will the New York tech scene react apart from X to Mamdani? Samuels said it was too early to say, especially because none of the candidates who really deal with topics related to technology during the area code Opinion poll About AI. In view of the fact that the world of New York Tech is now more mature than 10 years ago, it could be time for Mamdani to think about it, even though I would recommend staying away from X from X.
“How many people in New York tech and beyond I still unpack it,” said Samuels when I asked about the area code on Tuesday. “But New York is a city that is constantly reinventing itself, and New York is a city where people always find a way, cool things happen, and I am confident that we, no matter who mayor is, continues to thrive this city.”
Unfortunately, that doesn’t quite fit into a tweet.
Leo Schwartz
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E-mail: leo.schwartz@fortune.com
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Ipos
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