David Sacks is David Oliver Sacks, a tech founder and investor who co-founded Craft Ventures and works there as a partner. He co-hosts the All In podcast and is affiliated with the PayPal Mafia, the network of former PayPal employees who went on to found and back prominent technology companies. David Sacks's Twitter Score is 848 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking him #47 out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform, with 1,597,747 followers and 14,248 posts published since 2007. David Sacks ranks #47 (top 0.1%) out of 389,000+ tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
David Sacks co-founded Yammer, an enterprise messaging platform that Microsoft acquired for $1.2 billion in July 2012, and previously worked at PayPal as COO and at Zenefits as interim CEO. He founded Geni.com and co-founded Callin, a social audio platform that raised $12 million in a Series A at launch in 2021 and was acquired by Rumble in 2023. David Sacks also co-founded Glue, an AI-powered workplace chat product positioned as a Slack challenger that opened public access in May 2024, and serves as its chairman. The Craft Ventures portfolio tracked on this platform includes Lightning Labs, BitGo and Bitwise.
David Sacks was named White House AI and cryptocurrency czar on December 5, 2024 by President-elect Trump, serving in the newly created role from January 20, 2025 through March 26, 2026, tasked with developing a legal framework for the crypto industry as a special government employee limited to a maximum of 130 days per year in government service. At the Crypto Ball during Trump's inauguration, David Sacks declared that "the war on crypto is over," and he stood beside President Trump at the White House Crypto Summit as Trump signed a March 2025 executive order on digital assets. Before taking office, David Sacks and Craft Ventures sold their direct cryptocurrency holdings while maintaining investments in crypto startups including BitGo, Bitwise, and Fold. The New York Times reported in November 2025 that critics raised ethical questions about David Sacks influencing AI and crypto policy while remaining a major investor and partner at Craft Ventures, and NPR reported in December 2025 that ethics experts questioned the breadth of his government ethics waivers covering hundreds of tech investments with AI ties. David Sacks now serves as Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. He has been mentioned by 1,463 accounts, with 4,185 total mentions on this platform.
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