Ctrl+Z: Silicon Valley leaders U-turn on Donald Trump

Most tech industry leaders railed against the Republican, but some are now changing their tune as they consider what his presidency will mean

In the end, it took less than 24 hours for Silicon Valley to start making nice with President-elect Donald Trump.

For a full year, the tech industry had collectively railed against the xenophobic, bigoted, and anti-science tenor of candidate Trump, displaying a political consensus so strong that the only public outlier - PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel - became the target of a shunning campaign from industry insiders. Even the generally apolitical Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebuked Trump and his supporters' "fearful voices talking about building walls".