Politico

At a conference in San Francisco Thursday, tech wonks aired out their unease about the upcoming election.

Elon Musk picked his fighter in American politics, and got rewarded for it. America’s most famous tech billionaire openly embraced Donald Trump, and today Trump hugged him back, promising him the helm of a new Washington efficiency commission that Musk himself proposed last month.

The wider tech industry, though — a vastly profitable sector stacked with political donors — is now more unsure about American politics than it has been in years.

When the biggest names in tech policy and venture capital got together Thursday at a former Army base to talk about the collision of business and politics, perhaps the only thing the group had in common was fresh concern about the outcome of a presidential election far more volatile and uncertain than any in recent memory.