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How Peter Thiel’s network of right-wing techies is infiltrating Donald Trump’s White House

With David Sacks as “AI and Crypto Czar” and Elon Musk as co-head of DOGE, Thiel’s network has become closely tied to the new Trump administration.

It was PayPal cofounder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel who first introduced his mentee, JD Vance, to President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2021. Three years later—with Trump and Vance just weeks from the White House—it’s Thiel who is sitting pretty as many people within his network head for official or advisory positions in the next administration. And Mark Woolway, who was an early employee at PayPal and now works at Sacks’ Craft Ventures, was on Trump’s transition team for the Treasury Department in 2016.

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