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Ken Howery: The tech mogul at the center of Trump’s Greenland ambition
Surprise! Donald Trump’s big, audacious ambition to buy Greenland from Denmark has a tech angle. Ken Howery, named by U.S. President-elect Trump’s pick to
Part of the original “PayPal Mafia” (he was the CFO who helped bring it together and sell it to eBay), Howery then went on to co-found the storied VC firm Founders Fund with Peter Thiel and others. Ostensibly, Trump has said it’s about geopolitics: “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he wrote last year. But… it does help that the Arctic island is believed to have huge, valuable natural reserves of oil and rare earth elements, necessary for the manufacturing of batteries and other hardware.
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