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And last week, Mayor Eric Adams of New York urged the city’s business leaders to ride the subway to encourage workers to return to the office. The acquisition by Broadcom, a semiconductor powerhouse, of the cloud-computing company VMware would allow it to build its presence in the corporate software market amid surging demand for cloud computing. Late last week, Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested in hundreds of start-ups in their early stages including Airbnb, Coinbase and Reddit, sent an urgent letter to the companies that are currently in its portfolio. The poll by a new initiative formed by three nonprofit organizations — Public Private Strategies, Leadership Now Project and the Black Economic Alliance — found that three-quarters of the more than 400 business leaders surveyed thought companies should influence democracy policy at both the state and federal levels. The survey was taken after the Disney uproar, which David Clunie of the Black Economic Alliance says has created a “very real” backlash against corporate America on weighing in on political issues.

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