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Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, and all the other VCs reportedly in the running for new Trump committees
With Elon Musk playing such a high-profile role in Donald Trump’s transition team, Musk’s buddies, many of them Silicon Valley venture capitalists, are
Gracias is co-founder of Valor Equity Partners, which has done well backing Musk companies over the years, including SpaceX and Tesla (the latter where he was on the board of directors from 2007 to 2021). A16z has been a big-time investor in SpaceX since around 2022 – and buys more stock as it can, TechCrunch previously reported, and Andreessen has been a vocal supporter of Musk. The DOGE committee hopes to recommend cuts to programs and to reduce the number of federal employees, Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy explained in a Wall Street Journal editorial last week.
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