Well let's not pretend that there weren't all sorts of politics already embedded deeply into these corporations.
In particular, banks make extremely political decisions in how they evaluate risk of loans and who they choose to loan money to and on what terms. Which is one of the reasons that the fall of SVB will have such long lasting implications for startups! Good luck getting the traditional banks to understand your startup enough to loan you something now.
Of course it is, when you have freedom to direct your investment efforts, and make decisions on which class of investments are even investable.
Decisions are made on the estimations before the bottom line is realized. And reevaluating counterfactual outcomes from investing in something else is also not a quantitative decision, but one that is highly subjective.
If the company is public, they will go where the money is. The near random bunch of people that make up the shareholders won’t have any political leanings as a collective. They will care about one thing only, maximising profit.
