Tech pioneers are too busy expanding their platforms to millions more users.
These tech pioneers want government "to heavily fund education, encourage more active citizenship, pursue binding international trade alliances, and open borders to all immigrants".
As the wealth has piled up and the original tech pioneers have aged, more of them have started to think about philanthropy.
But in fact, the psychological profile of a compelling leader — think of tech pioneers like Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Steven P. Jobs — is also that of the compulsive risk-taker, someone with a high degree of novelty-seeking behavior.
How benign that manipulation is depends largely on your perspective: are tech pioneers trying to give you a better experience, or are they cynically tricking you for their own gain?
As onetime tech pioneers have found themselves struggling to keep up with advancements like cloud computing — and often found themselves the targets of activist hedge funds who have called for merger activity — firms like Thoma Bravo have enjoyed a bigger array of potential targets to buy.
