Today some of the biggest names in tech came together to make a stand. It wasn’t a stand for immigration reform or a stand for shuttle-bus stopping rights. It was for something far less sexy: Coding classes.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Square CEO Jack Dorsey, investor Vinod Khosla, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Yelp’s Jeremy Stoppelman, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings joined a list of 30 that reads like the who’s who of Silicon Valley. All the participants signed a letter to California’s Governor Jerry Brown to explain the need for programming courses in California’s public school system. A choice excerpt: