David Hornik

Because Kamala Harris is the only pro-Business candidate

I will be voting for Kamala Harris because I believe in the rule of law, I believe in a pro-business economy, and I believe in entrepreneurs. Under Donald Trump, I watched businesses falter and fail.

All business—small business, large business, crypto, AI, global, local—requires predictability to thrive. And predictability is a byproduct of well-understood, clear rules that govern those businesses. Businesses thrive in the United States because of that predictability. Finance and contracts and employment are dictated by very clear rules that remove friction and expense from the starting and growing of business in America. Without that predictability, everything costs more, moves more slowly, and is subject to dramatically more conflict. 

A Harris administration will be good for business, small and large alike, because Kamala Harris believes in the rule of law. The Harris administration will establish clear and predictable laws and regulations governing commerce. Business owners will know what to expect and will not be subject to the whiplash of changing opinions and priorities. Judges appointed by President Harris will follow precedent, assuring that legal outcomes are dictated by law, not policy or politics. Tariffs and duties will not be arbitrarily applied to products and services based upon the whims and ego of the president. In short, business owners will make decisions based upon well-understood laws, and those laws will be applied equally and predictably.

The most fragile American businesses are the very same businesses that make the American economy boom. For twenty-five years now I have helped small businesses launch. I have watched entrepreneurs with a dream prosper and thrive under a well-established set of rules for funding and hiring and manufacturing and selling. I have watched people with amazing ideas hire two people, then twenty, then two hundred. I have watched lives transformed and businesses flourish. 

Yet under Donald Trump, I watched businesses falter and fail. I watched as arbitrarily applied tariffs sunk promising technology. And watched as small business owners struggled to understand the rules that governed their businesses. The chaos of the Trump administration created friction and expense. And Trump has promised to create even more chaos and unpredictability should he be reelected. I will be voting for Kamala Harris because I believe in the rule of law, I believe in a pro-business economy, and I believe in entrepreneurs.  

David Hornik is a founding partner at Lobby Capital and a lecturer in Law and Business at Stanford and Harvard.