Silicon Valley is freaking out about the election right now
As the race tightened Tuesday night, members of Silicon Valley’s elite took to Twitter to freak out along with everyone else.
Shervin Pishevar, cofounder of venture capital firm Sherpa Capital, an investor in some of the biggest names in tech, including Uber, Airbnb and Slack, tweeted that if Trump wins he would start funding a campaign for California to become its own country.
1/ If Trump wins I am announcing and funding a legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation.
— Shervin #VOTE (@shervin) November 9, 2016
@shervin I was literally just going to tweet this. I’m in and will partner with you on it.
— DAVE MORIN (@davemorin) November 9, 2016
Others were quick to chime in. Path founder Dave Morin quickly chimed in with his support and offered to partner on the effort.
Markets will melt with a Trump win. Regardless of who wins this is a turning point in our nation. Serious systemic changes must happen.
— Shervin #VOTE (@shervin) November 9, 2016
Elsewhere, Jason Calcanis was freaking out about the New York Times’ real-time election forecasts.
#Nightmare #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/SbTnyfH4FD
— jason (@Jason) November 9, 2016
And Box CEO Aaron Levie was equally frustrated with 538 founder Nate Silver’s predictions.
Nate Silver, we trusted you.
— Aaron Levie (@levie) November 9, 2016
Sam Altman, head of the influential startup incubator Y Combinator was just all around nervous.
Can’t remember the last time i felt so anxious 🙁
— Sam Altman (@sama) November 9, 2016
Andreesen Horowitz’z Benedict Evans was ready to give up on Twitter entirely.
I prefer my Instagram feed
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) November 9, 2016
Google Ventures general partner M.G. Siegler was starting to sound despondent.
…so, we’re gonna have to learn the hard way then.
— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) November 9, 2016
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield just wants it to be over.
DO THIS FASTER!
— Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) November 9, 2016
BONUS: Donald Trump was caught peeking at his wife’s election ballot