AT&T's Cicconi, Netflix's Hastings Among 50 Executives Endorsing Clinton
AT&T Senior Executive Vice President Jim Cicconi and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings are among more than 50 major technology, cable TV and other business executives who endorsed Hillary Clinton for president Thursday, her campaign said in an email. “I’ve supported every Republican Presidential candidate since 1976, and was honored to work for two of them," said Cicconi in a statement supplied by the Clinton campaign. "But this year I think it's vital to put our country's wellbeing ahead of party. Hillary Clinton is experienced, qualified, and will make a fine President. The alternative, I fear, would set our Nation on a very dark path.” Hastings said in a statement from the campaign that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump "would destroy much of what is great about America. Hillary Clinton is the strong leader we need, and it's important that Trump lose by a landslide to reject what he stands for." The Trump campaign didn't comment. Others who endorsed Clinton include Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; Airbnb Chief Technology Officer Nathan Blecharczyk, CEO Brian Chesky and Chief Privacy Officer Joe Gebbia; IAC and Expedia Chairmen Barry Diller; Dish Network co-founder Candy Ergen; Dropbox CEO Drew Houston; Qualcomm CEO Emeritus Irwin Jacobs and Executive Chairman Paul Jacobs; Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson and CEO Debra Lee; Tumblr CEO David Karp; Box CEO Aaron Levie; former Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus; Prologis CEO Hamid Moghadam; Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus; Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg; Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt; Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman; and Entravision Communications CEO Walter Ulloa.