David Sacks

Co-founder, Craft Ventures; White House AI & crypto czar

David Sacks co-founded the venture firm Craft Ventures and co-hosts the All-In podcast. He served as the White House AI and crypto czar from December 2024 until March 2026 and remains a critic of calls to slow AI development.

Snapshot

Known for

PayPal's first COO, Yammer's founder, and the administration's loudest voice against coordinated industry slowdowns.

Worth knowing

He produced and financed Thank You for Smoking, which was nominated for two Golden Globes, and later developed the 2023 Salvador Dalí biopic Dalíland.
Yammer began as a chat tool Geni employees built to talk to each other, and sold to Microsoft four years after launch.
His angel investments include Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Palantir Technologies and Airbnb, and Forbes lists SpaceX as his notable deal.

Age: 54
Based: San Francisco, CA
Primary role: Co-Founder & Partner, Craft Ventures
Citizenship: United States
Born: 1972, Cape Town, South Africa

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