President-elect Donald Trump is assembling a team of wealthy tech figures, many with ties to the early PayPal company, to guide his second term in the White House. This network, characterized by shared political beliefs, social connections, and financial ventures, is poised to influence policy and personnel decisions. Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks, and Peter Thiel are among the prominent figures shaping Trump's new administration.
President-elect Donald Trump has surrounded himself with a tight-knit group of wealthy tech barons whose ideas will help define his second term in the White House. Three key allies — members of a group known as “the PayPal Mafia” for their involvement in the money-transfer company two decades ago — seem to be shaping policy and staffing decisions in Trump’s incoming administration, and they are part of an expansive right-wing tech network that will accompany Trump back into power.
Leamer said that while some industries rely on Washington-based trade and lobbying organizations to be the faces of their businesses, figures such as Musk, Sacks and Thiel pursue a different model: cutting out the trade groups as middlemen and speaking directly to large audiences through social media and podcasts. “These are the people behind the microphone,” he said. “It’s fitting that these very famous people are now disintermediating the marketplace.
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