The topic before was "Should YC disassociate from Thiel from YC?"<p>The argument from YC was (more or less) "businesses shouldn't let political differences stop people from working together."<p>Here's my question to the YC community: At what point does the activities of an employee / partner bring potentially unwanted attention to a business?<p>Yes, I wouldn't fire an employee for having different political opinions from me. BUT I would fire an employee for going around publicly campaigning and publicly donating vast sums of money to a political agenda.<p>Again, it's about bringing potentially divisive attention to the business - not about political differences.
The thing I like about Thiel is that he recognizes that there exist people outside of the dozen or so bubbles of prosperity, and that they aren't doing so hot, by and large.