[dluan]

All the tech heads at the inauguration, from the bald ones to the Tim Cooks and Sundar Pichais, participated under the assumption that it would preserve their piece of the pie. Independence, sovereignty, and self-sustainability are going to be big driving factors for how people build for the future now.

[debacle]

Not sure why you are being downmodded. The abrupt about face of Facebook and Amazon/WaPo (and probably Apple, but I haven't seen any evidence there), and even the change in Musk over the last 10 years, shows one of a few realities:

1. Tech CEOs, probably like other CEOs, are easily bought.

2. Tech CEOs are terrified of retributive and/or deserved antitrust action and/or regulation changes from Trump.

3. Tech CEOs never really were the progressive allies of the Left, but needed Trump to make it safe for them to drop the mask.

The likely reality is a combination of all three.