David Sacks is a prominent South African-American entrepreneur, investor, and political strategist who, as of January 2025, serves as the "White House AI and Crypto Czar" in the second @Trump Administration. In this role, he acts as a special advisor guiding national policy on @Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital assets, with a focus on establishing a legal framework to help the @Cryptocurrency industry "thrive" in the @United States. Sacks is also the co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. A key figure in the @The PayPal Mafia, Sacks was the founding-era COO of @PayPal before founding the enterprise social network Yammer, which was acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion in 2012. He is a general partner at Craft Ventures, a venture capital firm he co-founded in 2017. Sacks is a vocal critic of what he terms "woke AI," arguing that state-level regulations—particularly in "blue states"—risk embedding social agendas and "algorithmic discrimination" into technology. He has pushed for a unified national standard to prevent a "patchwork" of state laws that he believes stifle innovation and could cause the U.S. to lose the AI race against @China. Beyond his official duties, Sacks is the co-host of the All-In Podcast, a popular tech and politics program through which he has significantly influenced the @Silicon Valley-to-Washington pipeline.

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