Google's Eric Schmidt Funds Critical Startup Providing Techno Prowess To Clinton Campaign
/
Timely Technology For Hillary
The stealthy, Eric Schmidt-backed startup that's working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House QZ.com
Google executive Eric Schmidt is devoted to electing Democrats. Schmidt was named to a Democratic think tank that analyzed what went wrong after the 2014 elections. But it's his forward-thinking investment in The Groundwork that is making news today.
A fundamental challenge of political campaigns in attracting elite engineering and technology talent is lack of stable job security, stock options and other professional perks used to attract the best minds in and out of Silicon Valley. Eric Schmidt is taking his vast wealth to fund The Groundwork, "one of a series of quiet investments by Schmidt that recognize how modern political campaigns are run, with data analytics and digital outreach as vital ingredients that allow candidates to find, court, and turn out critical voter blocs."
“We’re not trying to obfuscate anything, we’re just trying to keep our heads down and do stuff,” says Michael Slaby, who runs the Groundwork. He was the chief technology officer for president Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, a top digital executive for Obama 2012, and the former chief technology strategist for TomorrowVentures, Schmidt’s angel investment fund.
Why Our Technological Ignorance Is Hurting Hillary Clinton Washington Post
Listening to Mica and Joe on 'Morning Joe', you would think that Hillary Clinton came within a fragile balance in hacking the truths of American diplomacy to the world. Technology experts don't find the reality of the Clinton servers nearly as insecure as the duo portrays them in their incessant Hillary bashing.
Peter Fidler, president of the tech firm WCA Technologies in New York cites the biggest problem for Hillary: People don't really understand how the Internet works, and so the stories might sound more ominous than they otherwise would.
Take the question of whether or not Clinton's server was "wiped." In August, a lawyer for Clinton told a Senate committee by letter that the server "no longer contains data" from Clinton's hdr22@clintonemail.com account. This entered the news cycle as the lawyer saying that the server had been "wiped clean." (When Clinton was asked if her e-mail server was "wiped," it elicited a now-infamous response of apparent bafflement -- which in retrospect seems believable coming from a grandmother.)
According to Fidler, a full "wipe" of the server would be a best practice when decommissioning a server. In fact, the professionals would go further. "Best practices would be to uninstall the software, clean wipe and destroy the hard drives," Fidler said.
Hillary Women
Salma Hayek Helps Launch 'Latinos for Hillary' AOC Hillary Women
'Chime for Change', founded by Gucci and Salma Hayek's husband Francois Henri Pinault, a chief stockholder of Gucci’s parent company Kering, recruited some of the most glamorous, activist leading ladies to work on the empowerment of women and girls around the world.
Now the activist has turned her attention to electing Hillary Clinton with 'Latinos for Hillary'.
Hillary Headlines Oct 9
In Debate, Hillary Clinton Will Display Skills Honed Over A Lifetime NY Times
The Trouble with Bernie Lansing City Pulse
