It seems to me it would have been more powerful the other way around. For ACLU to go to Y Combinator and say, “here’s $1 million, we want access to your network on the same terms as people like Thiel: we bring the money and your young entrepreneurs are now beholden to listen to us as we talk to them about how their companies are going to impact society”.
I would give the ACLU double if I knew they were leveraging my donation like that.
-jeff
