# Musk-Sacks Anti-Biden Dinner (April 2024) Private dinner convened by [[Elon Musk]] and [[David Sacks]] at Sacks's $23 million, 11,000-square-foot Hollywood Hills home in April 2024, gathering roughly a dozen of America's wealthiest business figures as what Puck's Teddy Schleifer described as a "burgeoning anti-Biden brain trust, united by a shared sense of grievance." The conversation reportedly centered on **how to raise money to defeat Democrats nationally** in the 2024 cycle. ## Reported Attendees | Attendee | Category | Note | |----------|----------|------| | [[Elon Musk]] | Co-host | Months before his public Trump endorsement and ~$290M in 2024 spending | | [[David Sacks]] | Co-host | Venue owner; went on to co-host the June 2024 SF Trump fundraiser and become Trump's AI/Crypto Czar | | [[Peter Thiel]] | Megadonor | Publicly claiming to sit out 2024 funding at the time | | [[Rupert Murdoch]] | Media | Fox/News Corp patriarch | | [[Steve Mnuchin]] | "Government types" | Former Treasury Secretary; Puck noted he "scored an invite"; then pursuing his TikTok acquisition bid | | [[Michael Milken]] | Finance | Junk-bond felon pardoned by Trump in 2020 | | [[Travis Kalanick]] | Tech | Characterized as one of the "less politically active titans of industry" present | ## Why It Matters for the KB 1. **The pivot point of Musk's 2024 politicization.** The dinner predates Musk's July 2024 Trump endorsement and [[America PAC]]; it documents the anti-Biden organizing phase while his support was still officially undeclared. A separate Rolling Stone report on an April 2024 Musk-convened dinner with Murdoch and Thiel — possibly the same gathering, reported through different sources — described the focus as funding Trump's campaign *discreetly*. 2. **The grievance coalition in one room.** The guest list merges distinct wings of the donor right — PayPal Mafia tech money (Musk, Sacks, Thiel), legacy media power (Murdoch), Trump-administration finance alumni (Mnuchin), pardoned finance (Milken) — around shared anti-Biden sentiment rather than a shared program. The Puck framing ("united by a shared sense of grievance") is the load-bearing observation. 3. **The fellow-traveler mechanism, documented.** For figures like [[Travis Kalanick]] — no donations, no endorsements, no administration role — attendance at gatherings like this is what political alignment looks like in practice: presence in the room where the money strategy is discussed. This is the strongest documented data point for Kalanick's 2024-cycle political positioning. 4. **Sacks's house as infrastructure.** The same Hollywood Hills home functioned as a recurring venue for the tech right's 2024 organizing, culminating in the June 2024 San Francisco Trump fundraiser Sacks co-hosted with [[Chamath Palihapitiya]]. ## See Also - [[David Sacks]] — host and chief organizer of the tech-right's 2024 donor mobilization - [[California Tech Exodus Ecosystem]] — the network's geographic-political story - [[Travis Kalanick]] — fellow-traveler case study - [[Steve Mnuchin]] — Trump-finance alumni wing