ChainCatcher reported that according to CNBC, 88 current and former executives from the US business community support US Vice President Kamala Harris for the country's president. The signatories include well-known CEOs of several listed companies, including Aaron Levie of Box, Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp, and Michael Lynton, chairman of Snap.
Some of the signatories appear to be publicly endorsing Harris for the first time since she became the de facto Democratic nominee in July. They include James Murdoch, the former CEO of 21st Century Fox and media heir to the Murdoch family, and Chris Larsen, a cryptocurrency executive and co-founder of the Ripple blockchain platform.
More than a dozen of the signatories made their fortunes on Wall Street, including Tony James, former president and chief operating officer of Blackstone Group and founder of Jefferson River Capital, and Bruce Heyman, former managing director of Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management.
However, of all the signatories, the vast majority of the 88 people who endorsed Harris are former CEOs of large public companies, including former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Paramount Pictures’ Barry Diller, Merck’s Ken Frazier, Lyft’s Logan Green, GoDaddy’s Blake Irving, Starbucks’ Laxman Narasimhan and PayPal’s Dan Schulman.