Here are some American tech and finance leaders who, according to an X-Post by David Sacks, are supporting Donald Trump’s candidacy:
Marc Andreessen
Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American businessman and former software engineer. He is the co-creator of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder and general partner of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He also founded the software company Opsware, which was later sold to Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a social networking platform, and a member of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame. His net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion.
He is the author of the Techno Optimist Manifesto and the Little Tech Agenda. You can follow him on X at pmarca, where he is very active.
Bill Ackman
Ben Ackman is an American billionaire and hedge fund manager who is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund management company. His investment approach has made him an activist investor. In June 2024, Ackman’s net worth was estimated by Forbes to be $9.3 billion.
Ackman is active on X under BillAckman.
Jacob Helberg
Jacob Helberg is an American author and think tank analyst. He is currently a commissioner at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and senior policy advisor to Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies.
You can also find him on X.
Ben Horowitz
Benjamin Abraham Horowitz is an American businessman, investor, blogger and author. He is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz with Marc Andreessen. Previously, he was co-founder, president and CEO of the enterprise software company Opsware, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007. Horowitz is the author of the books “The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers” about startups and “What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture”.
He can be found on X at @bhorowitz.
Ken Howery
Kenneth Alan Howery is an American entrepreneur and diplomat. He is one of the co-founders of PayPal and Founders Fund. From 2019 to 2021, he served as US Ambassador to Sweden under President Donald Trump.
He occasionally posts on X.
Tushar Jain
Tushar Jain is a co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, an investment firm specializing in cryptocurrencies, tokens and blockchain technology.
He is also active on X under TusharJain_.
Doug Leone
Douglas M. Leone is an American billionaire and venture capitalist. He was a managing partner at Sequoia Capital until 2022, and remained a general partner thereafter. His net worth was estimated at $6.1 billion in August 2022.
He has an X-account under the handle @dougleone, but is not particularly active there.
Joe Lonsdale
Lonsdale is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is also active at Palantir. He has often attracted attention with his political statements.
More insights can also be found on X.
Palmer Luckey
Palmer Freeman Luckey is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Oculus VR and the developer of the Oculus Rift. He then founded Anduril Industries, which specializes in autonomous drones and sensors for military applications.
You can also find him on X under the name PalmerLuckey.
Shaun Maguire
Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia Capital, a leading venture capital firm. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech and has founded several companies, including one in the space industry and another in global internet security.
He is also very active.
Eoghan McCabe
Eoghan McCabe is an Irish entrepreneur and co-founder of Intercom, a company that provides innovative customer service communication solutions. After a successful career as a CEO, he is now the chairman of the company and continues to be involved in the technology industry.
You can find him on X under the name eoghan.
Elon Musk
There is probably no need to say more about Elon Musk, but we are including him for the sake of completeness. You can find him on X at @elonmusk.
David Sacks
David Sacks is an American entrepreneur, investor and author. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1972. He became known as the COO of PayPal, where he played a major role in the development and success of the company. After selling PayPal, he founded Yammer, an enterprise social network that was acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion in 2012.
Sacks is a co-founder and partner at Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund that has invested in numerous successful technology companies, including Airbnb, Facebook, Reddit, Slack and SpaceX. In addition, he is a co-host of the popular “All In” podcast, which covers technology, economics and politics.
He is the author of the above-mentioned post, and here is his X-Account.
Kyle Samani
Kyle Samani is a co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, an investment firm specializing in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Prior to founding Multicoin Capital, he founded Pristine, a health IT startup that raised more than $5 million in venture capital and was later acquired by Upskill.
He also has an X-Account.
Peter Thiel
Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and political activist. He is the co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund and was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of June 2023, Thiel had an estimated net worth of $9.7 billion.
Thiel has an X-Account, but has not yet been active there.
Trevor Traina
Trevor Traina is an American businessman, diplomat and philanthropist. He was appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as the United States Ambassador to Austria in 2018 and served in that position until 2021. Traina is also an experienced entrepreneur and has founded several successful technology companies, including CompareNet, which was sold to Microsoft in 1999, and IfOnly, an exclusive experiences platform that was acquired by MasterCard in 2019.
Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Howard Winklevoss is an American cryptocurrency investor, former Olympic rower, and co-founder of Winklevoss Capital Management and the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. He competed in the men’s double sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics with his rowing partner and identical twin brother Tyler Winklevoss (see below). The Winklevoss brothers are known for co-founding HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) with their Harvard classmate Divya Narendra. In 2004, the Winklevoss twins sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that he stole their ConnectU idea to create the Facebook social network. In addition to ConnectU, Winklevoss co-founded the social media website Guest of a Guest with Rachelle Hruska.
Here is his X account: @cameron
Tyler Winklevoss
Tyler Howard Winklevoss is an American investor, founder of Winklevoss Capital Management and the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, and former Olympic rower. Winklevoss founded HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) with his brother Cameron Winklevoss and their Harvard classmate Divya Narendra.
He also has a very catchy X-account name: @tyler
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