Billionaire tech mogul Reid Hoffman is urges his fellow tech moguls in Silicon Valley to not only condemn the killing of two American citizens at the hands of Border Patrol agents, but to stop appeasing President Trump.

In X posts and an opinion column written for The San Francisco Standard, Hoffman wrote: “We in Silicon Valley cannot bend the knee to Trump. We cannot sit back and hope the crisis goes away. Hoping for inaction is not a strategy –– it’s an invitation for Trump to trample on anything he sees, including our own business and security interests.”

There is some pushback among the most powerful in the Valley against these deaths. Except Hoffman, a longtime critic of Trump, is a billionaire VC Vinod Khosla was the most vocaldescribing the White House and staff as “an unconscious administration.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also spoke concerns with Border Patrol incidentsalong with doing so in leaked internal memos. But most of them quickly distanced their concerns on this issue from the president himself.

That’s the difference Hoffman wants to close. He made the case that technology leaders have power “and sitting on that power is not good for business. It’s not neutrality either. It’s a choice.”

However, many of the biggest tech companies rely on the federal government for business, including regulation of AI, tariffs that affect the costs of their products, and large, lucrative contracts to provide the US government with technology. (OpenAI even got into a little hot water in November after its CFO said, and then walked back, that the company wants the feds to backstop their loansessentially guaranteeing payment so the AI ​​lab can get more favorable rates.)

Hoffman echoes the sentiment of the growing contingent of tech workers, who signed a petition asking their CEOs to call the White House and demand that ICE leave US cities, to cancel all companies contract with ICEand to speak out publicly against ICE violence.

While there are certainly tech leaders who remain vocal supporters of Trump, such as Elon Musk and Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures, many leaders appear to be, at least publicly, walking the fence. Cook, for example, wrote that he was “distressed” and urged “de-escalation” in his internal memo, but also ATTENDANCE an exclusive screening of the documentary by First Lady Melania Trump hours after the ICE shooting of Alex Pretti, one of the Americans who died in the incidents. So Hoffman was the call to arms.