The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/12/01/trumps-sf-ai-and-crypto-czar-david-sacks-apparently-enriching-himself-and-his-friends-in-white-house-role/SF’s own right-wing VC billionaire David Sacks was named the Trump administration’s ‘AI and Crypto Czar’ last year, and a New York Times analysis says that since then, his investments have hit the jackpot over policies he helped craft. Big-bucks Silicon Valley investor David Sacks first registered on our radar when he was largely bankrolling the Chesa Bouin recall himself back in 2021, and spent much of 2022 hyping Kremlin propaganda that Ukraine should surrender to Russia. Sacks made his fortune as one of the “Payal Mafia” guys with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in the early 2000s, though became more prominent as the co-

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