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At Stanford he edited the Stanford Review and co-wrote The Diversity Myth (1995) with Peter Thiel, an early broadside against campus multiculturalism. As chief operating officer of PayPal he was the operational core of what became known as the \"PayPal mafia,\" the network that went on to found and fund much of the modern tech industry. He founded the enterprise social network Yammer, sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion, and later the venture firm Craft Ventures.\n\nHis political vehicle is the All-In podcast, which he co-hosts with three other investors. What began as pandemic-era market commentary evolved into one of the most influential political platforms in technology — a venue where anti-\"woke\" cultural politics, skepticism of American support for Ukraine, and hostility to progressive governance in San Francisco were normalized for an audience of founders and engineers. Sacks argued consistently for foreign-policy restraint and negotiated settlement in Ukraine, a position that placed him closer to the national-conservative right than to his industry's residual liberalism.\n\nIn 2024 he hosted the San Francisco fundraiser that marked Silicon Valley's partial realignment toward Donald Trump, and after the election he was named White House czar for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, serving as a special government employee into early 2026 before moving to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The appointment carried the podcast's deregulatory agenda — crypto rules rewritten, AI framed as a competition with China to be won rather than a risk to be managed — directly into government.\n\nHis significance is organizational more than intellectual. Sacks built the successive rooms — the Review, the PayPal circle, All-In — in which the tech right cohered from scattered grievances into a governing faction. Critics see a politics of resentment serving portfolio interests; supporters see the first effective counterweight to a progressive monoculture in tech. 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Sacks kept building them — the Stanford Review, the PayPal circle, the All-In podcast — until anti-woke politics and foreign-policy restraint had a headquarters, then carried the agenda into the White House.",[]]