President-elect Donald Trump has named venture capitalist David Sacks as the White House’s artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency tsar, the latest confidant of Elon Musk to receive a top appointment in the new government.
Sacks, who was an early employee alongside Musk at PayPal, is a co-host of the All-In podcast and emerged as one of the earliest and most vocal Silicon Valley supporters of Trump, hosting a fundraiser for the candidate in San Francisco in June.
“David has the knowledge, business experience, intelligence and pragmatism to MAKE AMERICA GREAT in these two critical technologies,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social.