This might be the most blatantly corrupt thing I've ever scene a sitting president do. Might as well have Elon hand him a cartoonish bag with a dollar sign on it at this point.
I'm very torn on HN way of handling all this Musk / Trump news. From my perspective (non US), this is the biggest scandal and power / money grab in recent history, comaprable only to dismantlement of URSS and the rise of the oligarchs. US foundations are being tested and from what we see so far, they are failing.
And it was years in the making - both men lied blantantly and abused power and government countless times, without any consequences. Now, we will ALL (US and abroad) face the consequences of it.
In reality startups and VCs are just fancy words for small businesses and banking.
The vast majority of man hours spent in the category of VCs and startups are just that: mundane small business and banking.