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- The venture capitalist David Blumberg is a white man in Silicon Valley, and still he says he's a minority.
- In addition to being a supporter of President Donald Trump, the investor is gay - he has two children with his partner - and has a strong faith in God.
- Blumberg said that after coming out as Republican in 2016, he "got dropped from a lot of cocktail-party lists."
- But being an outsider has its advantages, he says.
Just before the 2016 presidential election, David Blumberg hosted a group of investors and entrepreneurs at a San Francisco restaurant for a business mixer. The conversation turned to Donald Trump.
The dinner guests tried to make sense of the reality-TV star making it to the general election. "Can you believe anyone would ever vote for Donald Trump?" Blumberg said he remembered hearing.
"And I'm just sitting there, not saying anything," Blumberg said.
Blumberg would go on to vote for Trump, though he wouldn't admit it before this group, because he feared their bitter criticism.
"People often don't realize how intolerant they are," Blumberg, the managing partner of Blumberg Capital, told Business Insider.
"They just assume their view is right. I have strong views; I know that. I could even be considered opinionated, but I certainly respect other people's views," Blumberg said. "Being a minority, you learn that." ...
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