As a leftist, I’ve never once considered Bill Gates or Anthropic to be even remotely left-wing. I’m not sure how it would be possible to frame them like that.
The polarizing vaccine mandate is one such example of alignment.
I don't know of a single leftist who would call Gates a leftist. Liberal, perhaps, in the economic and social sense, but not a leftist in any way shape or form. I don't know why its so hard for people to distinguish between these two very different groups.
Blame Rush Limbaugh and others for conflating them in the 90s.
I don't know if people generally know the difference before that, but personally it's only been recently that I've been exposed to sources that distinguish between left and liberal.
Yes, one of those numerous notoriously left-wing billionaires, that definitely exist.