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David Sacks

ROLE GENERAL PARTNERMENTIONS 105LAST SEEN OCTOBER 10, 2026
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Tech investor and White House AI adviser warning that Anthropic could build an insurmountable enterprise revenue lead over OpenAI.

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mention·All In·OCTOBER 10, 2026

“math relies on proofs and proofs are easily validated... with coding you have compilers”

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mention·All In·OCTOBER 10, 2026

“consumers pick the AI that is most predictable and reliable”

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mention·Axios AI+·OCTOBER 6, 2026
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mention·All In·OCTOBER 2, 2026
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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 26, 2026
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mention·The a16z Show·SEPTEMBER 26, 2026
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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 26, 2026
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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 26, 2026
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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 26, 2026
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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 23, 2026

“you have to just hit them with facts over and over.”

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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 23, 2026

“One observation Peter Thiel made years ago was that Silicon Valley was like a resource curse for the state of California. Because it generates so much wealth and taxes that they don't need a good government here.”

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mention·Axios AI+·SEPTEMBER 21, 2026

“Sriram Krishnan... carried the torch for former AI czar David Sacks inside the White House after Sacks left earlier this year.”

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mention·Axios AI+·SEPTEMBER 21, 2026

“he likely won't take up the mantle again, although he continues to wield influence through his relationship with Trump.”

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mention·The a16z Show·SEPTEMBER 18, 2026

“Dav id Sacks referenced for a quip about regulators never declining industry self-regulation requests.”

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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 17, 2026
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mention·20VC·SEPTEMBER 17, 2026

“when you get David Sachs and Lena Kahn both on the same side... it's a really fun issue”

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mention·20VC·SEPTEMBER 17, 2026

“If it's that bad, Dario, it's your effing job... This is product liability 101”

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mention·Axios AI+·SEPTEMBER 14, 2026
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mention·The a16z Show·SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 11, 2026

“There's no evidence of that. Quite the contrary. It's all been job gains... again, like what are we on now? O for four.”

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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 11, 2026

“Nike's North Star was very clear to me, which was mastery and excellence embodied through athletics.”

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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 11, 2026

“This is a doomer psyop and the ultimate target is open source... that is what an FDA will ultimately ban.”

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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 11, 2026

“that is the mother of all product liability lawsuits.”

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mention·Lenny's·SEPTEMBER 6, 2026

“David Sacks — Referenced as representing the optimistic end of the AI-jobs spectrum.”

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m_and_a·All In·SEPTEMBER 4, 2026
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funding·All In·SEPTEMBER 4, 2026
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funding·20VC·AUGUST 31, 2026

“We did a financing earlier this year and then we extended it and brought in some strategic investors like yourself and David Sachs and Michael Dell and JP Morgan.”

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mention·All In·AUGUST 29, 2026

“You have to build the best agent interface. And you've got to, I think, relax the idea that you're going to fully control the customer relationship”

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mention·Newcomer Newsletter·AUGUST 28, 2026

“The 'AI capex is a bubble' and 'SaaS is dead' narratives getting shredded this morning. NVDA +8%, SFDC +20%.”

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mention·StrictlyVC·AUGUST 27, 2026

“Some critics of closed labs, like White House advisor David Sacks, suggested those fears were being fanned by the 'duopoly' of Anthropic and OpenAI.”

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funding·Parsers VC·AUGUST 13, 2026

“Venture capital firm Craft Ventures, led by former White House official David Sacks, launched a significant $1 billion fund amid rising AI investment.”

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hire·Parsers VC·AUGUST 13, 2026

“Venture capital firm Craft Ventures, led by former White House official David Sacks, launched a significant $1 billion fund amid rising AI investment.”

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mention·Axios AI+·JULY 27, 2026

“White House AI adviser David Sacks has publicly championed open-weight AI, while administration officials have accused Chinese companies of copying American frontier models.”

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