By Reid HoffmanPublished Jan. 29, 2026 • 11:32amIn the year since President Donald Trump took office, too many Silicon Valley leaders have divested themselves of the responsibility to speak out against the administration’s excesses. We leaders in tech and business have power — economic, social, platform power — and sitting on that power right now is not good business. Whichever candidates you may have supported in the past — or even if (like many of my friends in Silicon Valley) you don’t usually do politics — you almost surely did not want this. I’ve been encouraged in recent days that more Silicon Valley leaders have spoken out to condemn the Minneapolis killings and the policy choices that led to them. We in Silicon Valley can’t bend the knee to Trump.