Elaine Ou, Columnist

Silicon Valley's Secessionist Fever Dream

Some rich Californians want to secede from the U.S. They should realize how good they have it.

November 11, 2016 at 1:00 PM UTC

Elaine Ou is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. She is a blockchain engineer at Global Financial Access in San Francisco. Previously she was a lecturer in the electrical and information engineering department at the University of Sydney.

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Many of the California tech industry's leaders are unhappy with the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. This being Silicon Valley, they've come up with an innovative response: Secede from the union.

It's one idea I hope they won’t bring to fruition.