Julie Samuels

Listen, I think we don't know.

I think what's good for New York tends to be good for tech here.

Zoran Mamdani ran on a campaign of making New York affordable.

He ran on a campaign that really celebrated a lot of what people love about New York.

People love to be out in the streets.

So if people want to be here, if young people want to be here, the tech companies will continue to want to be here.

And clearly, we heard loud and clear yesterday that a lot of young people want Zoram Mamdani to be mayor.

There are a lot of tech workers who voted for him.

Of course, you know, that's the bull case, right?

The bear case, of course, is that you're going to have someone who is anti-business.

I hope that's not the case, but there's so many unknowns right now.

Listen, as a practical matter, I think more people voting always better.

So we're really glad to see that was the case.

And in fact, even as early as the primary months ago, the data were very clear that people who worked in tech were donating a lot of money to Zoran Mamdani's campaign.

So it's not a surprise.

You know, we can quickly or easily, I should say, draw a line to understand that a lot of tech workers, young tech workers, did vote for him yesterday.

Clearly, you know, so much about Zoran's campaign I think resonated with people in the tech industry.

It had the flavor of a startup.

It really disrupted the status quo of politics in New York.

And I think that resonated with a lot of people who work in tech.