Regardless of the law, I just don't understand why Khosla is going into this PR disaster. Which entrepreneur who has a choice (and 99% of successful entrepreneurs have a choice) between Khosla and another VC would choose Khosla after that?
YC W14 startups have all received this investment from a fund "YCVC" that includes KV (I know this first hand, we are one of them!). That doesn't mean any of us chose KV.
That being said, I want to moderate my comment. Until now, the situation is still under control, but it could become worse and then start to be a PR problem for KV. It's still time for them to do something.
Why should people draw an arbitrary line between personal behavior and an individual's business life? Eich's personal issue was to support depriving thousands of people the right to marry one another, not just in statute, but by constitutional amendment. Why should thousands of people who find that reprehensible work to deprive him of something he wants?
Because everybody can find a position that they don't like that somebody else has taken. If we start dragging all these issues out and start boycotting everyone, it will rip the fabric of our society apart.
