To the Leadership of Sequoia Capital,

We, the undersigned global founders from across the tech industry, are writing to demand immediate and decisive action in response to the unacceptable conduct of your partner, Shaun Maguire. His recent post on X on July 4, 2025, along with a documented pattern of anti-Muslim rhetoric over the past two years, has caused significant harm to the global tech community.

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    No idea who the Maguire fellow is, but since he works for a large American VC firm, the piece about “coming from a culture of lying” is clearly projection.

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      6 minutes ago

      How can this be projection? Silicon Valley’s culture brought us fraudulent medical tech, cryptocurrency scams, industrialized wire fraud, illegal taxis, and DRM juice machines. A paragon of honesty and integrity if I ever saw one.

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      22 minutes ago

      I’ll be honest, all statements against Mamdami have been by rich people. They’re trying to make it a race thing where it’s a rich people thing

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      23 minutes ago

      Stop making shit about race or skin if you want to beat racism

      Edit: The post is about people who are anti-Islam, an increasing trend about a growing religion. It has nothing to do with the colour of people’s skin. Making it about that doesn’t help get more to realise that racism is wrong. Generalising all white people will put some people off from going against morons like Shaun Maguire.

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        37 minutes ago

        “comes from a culture that lies about everything”

        What do you think he meant by that ?

        How the logic of his statement works seems very plain to me, we’ve seen that a million times.

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          28 minutes ago

          Yes Shaun Maguire is a racist, that’s obvious. Heck he specifically mentioned the Islam.

          But that doesn’t mean people should continue this trend by saying crap like this

          White people get really triggered by uppity brown people.

          That was what I was responding to since the comment of Shaun was about the religion

          It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda

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          51 minutes ago

          No, people need to stop making shit about race or skin if you want to beat racism. We are all people in the end.

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    52 minutes ago

    How does sharing xenophobic bullshit on twitter “harm global tech community”?