From Ron Conway and Marissa Mayer to Doug Leone and David Sacks, these are the biggest tech industry donors to California's gubernatorial recall race, for and against
The Netflix co-founder is the biggest individual donor in the recall race, a move that some commentators have calledfor donating more than twice that amount to Newsom’s top opponent in 2017, former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. His biggest political issue in the state has been promoting charter schools, but he’s donated millions to Democratic committees and candidates.The wife of former Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer lives in Bellevue, Wash.
The former pediatrician runs the day-to-day operations of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which she founded with her husband, Facebook co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. Through the initiative, Chan has donated billions of dollars to organizations working on healthcare, education, housing, criminal justice and other causes, but she has not donated directly to many political candidates or initiatives in recent years.
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