# David Sacks Inner Circle The **tight, trusted core** around [[David Sacks]] — the All-In co-hosts, his PayPal-era principals, and the Craft Ventures bench. This is the small inner ring; the fuller directly-connected map lives in [[David Sacks First Degree Connections]]. > Roster, not biographies. Each name links to its own page where the deep profile lives. ## The All-In "besties" The co-hosts of the [[All-In Podcast]] — Sacks's primary public peer group: | Person | Role | |---|---| | [[Chamath Palihapitiya]] | Co-host; Social Capital; SPAC-era financier | | [[Jason Calacanis]] | Co-host; angel investor; LAUNCH | | [[David Friedberg]] | Co-host; The Production Board | ## PayPal Mafia core | Person | Tie | |---|---| | [[Peter Thiel]] | Stanford Review + *[[The Diversity Myth]]* co-author; PayPal; lifelong partnership | | [[Elon Musk]] | PayPal co-founder; Sacks was in Musk's Twitter-takeover inner circle | | [[Keith Rabois]] | PayPal Mafia ally and co-investor | ## Political & policy allies | Person | Tie | |---|---| | [[JD Vance]] | Sacks bundled for his 2022 race; co-lobbied for his VP pick | | [[Marc Andreessen]] | Co-investor (crypto); aligned deregulation agenda | | [[Sriram Krishnan]] | Tech-policy ally in the administration orbit | | [[Garry Tan]] | YC CEO; All-In-adjacent; parallel SF-to-DC trajectory | ## Craft Ventures bench Sacks's firm [[Craft Ventures]] is the institutional core of his network; the holdings are mapped in [[David Sacks Holdings]]. Co-founder Bill Lee and the Craft partnership anchor the deal flow. ## How to use this page vs. its neighbors - **This page** = the trusted core (besties, PayPal, Craft). - [[David Sacks First Degree Connections]] = everyone directly connected, including looser co-investor and policy ties. - [[LittleSis Cross-Reference - David Sacks]] = the relational-database view. ## See Also - [[David Sacks]] — canonical biography - [[All-In Podcast]] · [[Craft Ventures]] · [[PayPal Mafia]] - [[David Sacks First Degree Connections]] - [[David Sacks Dossier]]