David Blumberg is not your typical Silicon Valley venture capitalist

Blumberg
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• The venture capitalist David Blumberg is a white man in
  Silicon Valley, and still he says he’s a minority.
• In addition to being a supporter of President Donald
  Trump, the investor is gay — he has two children with his
  partner — and has a strong faith in God.
• Blumberg said that after coming out as Republican in
  2016, he “got dropped from a lot of cocktail-party
  lists.”
• But being an outsider has its advantages, he
  says. 

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Just before the 2016 presidential election, David Blumberg hosted
a group of investors and entrepreneurs at a San Francisco
restaurant for a business mixer. The conversation turned to
Donald Trump.

The dinner guests tried to make sense of the reality-TV star
making it to the general election. “Can you believe anyone would
ever vote for Donald Trump?” Blumberg said he remembered hearing.

“And I’m just sitting there, not saying anything,” Blumberg said.

Blumberg would go on to vote for Trump, though he wouldn’t admit
it before this group, because he feared their bitter criticism.

“People often don’t realize how intolerant they are,” Blumberg,
the managing partner of Blumberg Capital, told
Business Insider.

“They just assume their view is right. I have strong views; I
know that. I could even be considered opinionated, but I
certainly respect other people’s views,” Blumberg said. “Being a
minority, you learn that.” …

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