One of the few tech millionaires I can openly respect are the Heroku founders. They don't really seem to toot their own horn too much, but they're the main folks funding Ink and Switch: a non-profit software research lab which has been driving research on CRDTs, local-first software, and related research topics:
https://www.inkandswitch.com
This to me seems like a much healthier direction than "posting selfies with middle-eastern Hitler", or "driving sports cars and being afraid of brown people."
yosh
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