What Trump’s VP Pick Means for Silicon Valley | Bytes: Week in Review | Marketplace Tech

🗳️Donald Trump picked Ohio Senator and former venture capitalist JD Vance as his running mate on Monday. Trump’s campaign has already seen unprecedented support from Silicon Valley leaders in recent months. Will adding a former ‘tech bro’ to the ticket push Big Tech to the right?
🩼Amazon’s Prime Day is a “major cause of injuries” among Amazon workers, according to a Senate report published this week. The e-commerce giant made $12.7 billion in sales during the Prime days last year, but was it at the expense of worker health?
☕Mercedes-Benz and Starbucks are teaming up to provide a jolt and a joe to EV owners. The partnership between the automaker and the coffee chain will create a network of charging stations at 100 Starbucks locations across the country. Can convenient chargers help ease range anxiety?
🎙️ Join Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino and Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, as they break down these stories on this week's Tech Bytes!

[@jeffheiner]

Didn't Peter Thiel effectively purchase JD Vance, by angel funding Narya for JD Vance?
Also I understand JD Vance left in 2022 where Thiel funded his senate campaign for like $14 million or something?

[@jarathen1625]

Jewel's expressions made my Friday.