> Do you separate the product from the founder?

Yes… if the founder does. I don't care on which side of which ring they are as long as they keep me out of their pointless fights.

Depends. I prefer not to give money to people who will use that money to achieve political ends that horrify or disgust me. I’m boycotting a select number of companies for that reason.

That said, they’re generally not early stage startups — more typically megacorps whose owners or lobbying arms have sufficient wealth/power/influence to make a meaningful impact that’s harming our economy, democracy, or social order. Sometimes a scale-up whose externalities are particularly destructive.