# David Sacks First Degree Connections The **full directly-connected map** for [[David Sacks]] — every person, fund, company, and institution with a documented first-degree tie, annotated by the *type* of tie. Broader than [[David Sacks Inner Circle]]; this is the whole one-hop neighborhood. The relational-database view is [[LittleSis Cross-Reference - David Sacks]]; the capital-flow view is [[Musk-Thiel Funding Map]]. > "First degree" = a tie Sacks holds personally (co-founder, co-host, funder, board, co-investor, documented associate). ## People — by tie type | Person | Tie type | Note | |---|---|---| | [[Peter Thiel]] | Co-author / co-founder | Stanford Review; *[[The Diversity Myth]]*; PayPal | | [[Elon Musk]] | PayPal co-founder; ally | Twitter-takeover inner circle | | [[Chamath Palihapitiya]] · [[Jason Calacanis]] · [[David Friedberg]] | Co-hosts | [[All-In Podcast]] | | [[JD Vance]] | Bundled-for; ally | 2022 race; VP-pick lobbying | | [[Keith Rabois]] | PayPal Mafia | Co-investor | | [[Marc Andreessen]] · [[Chris Dixon]] | Crypto co-investors | [[Multicoin Capital]] (2018) | | [[Sriram Krishnan]] | Policy ally | Administration AI orbit | | [[Garry Tan]] | Trajectory peer | YC; All-In-adjacent | | [[Bill Ackman]] | Co-signer/ally | Public political alignment | | [[Michelle Tandler]] | SF-politics ally | | | [[William Oberndorf]] | Donor ally | | ## Funds & companies (Sacks-founded or Sacks-run) The full holdings table is in [[David Sacks Holdings]]. First-degree entities: - [[Craft Ventures]] (founder) · Yammer (founder, sold to Microsoft) · [[Zenefits]] (interim CEO) · [[Callin]] (co-founder → acquired by [[Rumble]]) · Geni.com (founder) - [[Multicoin Capital]] (LP/early backer) · crypto positions divested before government service ## Government & policy nodes | Entity | Tie | |---|---| | AI & Crypto Czar (White House) | The role itself (Dec 2024 – Mar 2026) | | President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology | Led as Czar | | [[Crypto-Political Machine]] · [[Crypto Super PACs]] | Policy ecosystem he shaped | | [[Defense Tech Conflicts of Interest]] | The 449-AI-company / Palantir-classification conflict | ## Media & movement nodes - [[All-In Podcast]] — the platform - Republican National Convention 2024 — speaker - [[Chesa Boudin Recall]] — local-politics financier ## See Also - [[David Sacks Inner Circle]] — the trusted core subset - [[David Sacks Holdings]] — the entity side in detail - [[LittleSis Cross-Reference - David Sacks]] · [[Musk-Thiel Funding Map]] - [[David Sacks Dossier]]