Aaron Gershenberg

24 years ago co-founded SVB's Capital’s $10B venture fund of funds, direct funds and credit funds. Lived in Uganda 1969-71 & Kenya 1974-76. Married to Julia.

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

SVB Capital Announces SVB Financial Group Will Retain Ownership of the Business and Creates New Operating Committee

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

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[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

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[Rabbi Shmuley @RabbiShmuley]

An "11-year-old" Muslim girl with her family walked over to me in Times Square and told me to kill myself because I’m a Jew. I am not making this up. You must watch this. They then had their small child kick me to humiliate me whole their daughter continued to say that I should kill myself. Identify who these people are. Also, other passersby yelled at me that she’s white, and I should kill myself as a Jew. All of this happened right in the middle of New York City the night before Christmas. Anti Semitism is becoming unbelievably dangerous and deadly in the United States and around the world. We must fight this disease. #nevergain

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I find it difficult to believe that the @Harvard Corporation board could still be in unanimous support of President Gay.

They must now realize that they made a bad choice and that their continued support for President Gay is not just enormously damaging to Harvard, but it is also incredibly destructive to their own reputations.

When I first watched the train wreck begin to unfold at Harvard, I approached two friends on the Corporation board and requested a meeting with President Gay and the other directors as I thought I could help.

My requests for a meeting were ignored. Weeks went by. I continued to push. Finally, I was offered the opportunity to speak with Penny Pritzker, the board chair. I was told: “This is the protocol.”

The conversation with Penny was incredibly disappointing. It was clear that the board members had become deer in the headlights, were listening to bad ‘professional’ advice, and were unreceptive to input from outside the board room.

So I wrote my first public letter to the board, and received no response. Not even an acknowledgment from President Gay or the board that they had received the letter.

The situation got worse, and I was compelled to write a second letter.

I got no response.

The day after President Gay’s disastrous testimony I reached out again to my two friends on the board. One promised to call back and then ghosted me. The other did not respond to my texts, so I wrote a third letter.

Now, I am not the only person to have written strong letters to the Harvard board. They must have received literally hundreds of letters, emails, and calls.

I know because I have been copied and blind copied on many of these communications from some people I know and many people I do not.

We are well past the point where Claudine Gay is the only one to blame for the mess that is Harvard.

Ultimately, when management fails, the board needs to step in. It has failed to do so and nearly three months have passed.

As a result, the reputations of the eleven individuals who comprise the board are in the process of being destroyed. It is sad to watch this happen as there are some very high quality people on this board.

Why, you might ask, are they self destructing?

The principal reason I believe is that they are afraid of being called racists. They have concluded that if they fired President Gay, Harvard’s first black president, they would be cancelled and deemed racists.

They have failed to act out of fear.

They would also have to admit that they made a bad choice in selecting Gay, and acknowledge that they ignored concerns raised about Gay’s scholarship and leadership prior to appointing her.

Sometimes successful people have a hard time admitting mistakes, particularly when doing so will make the news.

So they have stuck their heads in the sand and they have made matters much worse.

Not only are they damaging Harvard’s and their own reputations, they are now materially damaging the black community.

By not acting to fire Gay for transgressions for which no other previous president of Harvard, administrator or faculty member would survive, they are telling the world that lower standards apply to black people at Harvard.

This is incredibly damaging to the many highly talented black faculty at Harvard.

Sadly, some will now question the legitimacy of faculty of color at Harvard because apparently lower academic and leadership standards are being applied to President Gay because of her intersectionality status.

In effect, the board’s failure to fire Gay delegitimizes other faculty of color at Harvard. This is very very wrong, and the Board needs to act now before more damage is done.

Someone on the Board must understand all of the above, but has yet to break ranks.

A word of advice: if you find yourself on a board which has lost its way and won’t reverse a disastrous decision for ego, personal fear, or other reasons, the best time to get off the board is now.

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

NEW: Study indicates that TikTok content is being amplified or suppressed based on whether it aligns with the CCP’s geopolitical interests.

Rutgers / @NCRI_io research shows massive difference in pro-CCP content on TikTok compared to other major social media platform.

“It’s not believable that this could happen organically.”

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

100% Sam! Will help however I can…

[sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ @lessin]

Harvard needs serious help.... the failures of leadership and clearly toxic on-campus culture needs to be addressed.

As someone who loves the university, I want to help vs. simply give up on the institution as I know many alums have / are -- so I am going to try to get on the ballot for the Board of Overseers election this spring.

If you are an alum that cares, please consider helping me petition. If you are not, please forward to your friends who are/can vote.

More here: https://t.co/JuZLEnVyaN

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

This is extremely important! Pease take action…

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

Presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, & @Penn refused to say calling for the genocide of Jews is harassment.

“Those university presidents should resign.” — @chairmang

“Elite universities are becoming unregistered lobbyists for some of the most tyrannical regimes in the world.”

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

@shaunmmaguire If you support @shaunmmaguire and his incredible leadership, please ask @paulg to block you… it is a display of antisemitism

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

@paulg please block me too. I am Jewish

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Hey PG, you blocked me but I think you’ll still see this

I think I found the IDF coordination chat you were referring to. It’s basically an infinite list of terror attacks

This is the only “IDF chat” I’m in

I know this will hurt your ego, but you’ve never been mentioned 🤷‍♂️

[Charles Gasparino @CGasparino]

After talking to @Harvard and @Penn alum who give money to the schools, the betting is that neither Liz Magill nor Caudine Gay makes it maybe past the weekend. Rumors of @Penn board meeting thurs as pressure to oust Magill grows following disastrous appearances before Congress

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

OMG, artificial intelligence has now surpassed Ivy League intelligence. Big moment for technology.

[David Frankel @dafrankel]

Huge amount of data analysis and work with leadership behind this. Bottom line: TikTok does not merely reflect pre-existing sentiment—it is shaping views, creating a dangerous environment for Jews. TikTok ratio differs from opinion polls, which show sentiment among Americans aged 18-24 split roughly equally between Israel and the Palestinians. #TikToxic

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

https://t.co/j2RJPRPtdh

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

@elonmusk Good question! 🤔

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

@therabbithole @elonmusk https://t.co/j2RJPRPtdh

[Anthony Goldbloom @antgoldbloom]

A new survey suggests TikTok is a meaningful driver of a surge in antisemitism. #TikToxic

Spending at least 30 minutes a day on TikTok increases the chances a respondent holds antisemitic or anti-Israel views by 17% (compared with 6% for Instagram and 2% for X).

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

@elonmusk https://t.co/rhJcngVy0H

[Anthony Goldbloom @antgoldbloom]

A new survey suggests TikTok is a meaningful driver of a surge in antisemitism. #TikToxic

Spending at least 30 minutes a day on TikTok increases the chances a respondent holds antisemitic or anti-Israel views by 17% (compared with 6% for Instagram and 2% for X).

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

Beautiful @elonmusk !!! So happy to see you are amplifying #ticktoxic. Thank you for your words and actions combatting and condemning antisemitism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

So then why is Disney boycotting 𝕏, yet spending millions on other platforms?

[Aaron Gershenberg @aggkiteboarder]

@antgoldbloom @TikTokPolicy @chairmang @TikTokPolicy 11/17 is too late to come out with a statement trying to rationalize data you were confronted with. Your response is transparently desperate, suggesting that the #tag data is the result of the volume of content being produced is disproportionately antisemitic.

[TikTok Policy @TikTokPolicy]

.@chairmang: You keep stating hashtag comparisons are our preferred metric for comparing content across platforms, but we said clearly in our 11/17 newsroom post: "Blunt comparisons of hashtags are severely flawed and misrepresentative of the activity on TikTok." We only compared hashtags because some of our critics were analyzing hashtags -- and we made crystal clear the inadequacy of these metrics.

Please be factual on our position, @committeeonccp: https://t.co/aiSdLlOIXT

[Anthony Goldbloom @antgoldbloom]

@TikTokPolicy @chairmang In the same post, you use hashtags to make a comparison between platforms #TikToxic