Case: States Trump won in 2016 received just 15% of venture capital
Steve Case · How can government back entrepreneurs? (Gov. Wes Moore, Steve Case & Preet Bharara) | Summit '24 · Dec 11, 2024 · at 7:55
AOL co-founder Steve Case highlights the geographic concentration of venture capital and its correlation with political divides in the United States.
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“When Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton eight years ago he won 30 states. If you added up all the venture capital in all 30 states, it was 15%. The 20 states she won had 85%.”
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