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- MobilizeZ 64 · C 75+11
- CommandZ 90 · C 82-8
- LeverageZ 40 · C 37-3
- WealthZ 75 · C 77+2
Run the Craft Ventures agenda through the term
David Sacks sits on institutional authority, not market cap. Our read: the job is converting a narrow electoral mandate into durable rule changes before the window closes.
Receipts
- Run the Craft Ventures agenda through the termAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Watch for Executive orders, rulemakings, and who gets fired when courts push back.
Keep the coalition intact
Power here is relational — donors, caucuses, agencies, and media allies must stay aligned or the office becomes ceremonial.
Receipts
- Keep the coalition intactAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Watch for Public breaks with the president, caucus defections, or confirmation fights.
Federal AI rules and state pre-emption
Documented moves include a White House AI/crypto policy post and industry spending on AI policy races. State AI statutes and federal pre-emption are the live policy fight — listed as facts in receipts, not as a heroes-vs-villains board.
Their angle White House AI/crypto policy seat
Receipts
- A White House AI and crypto czar post was created and filled from the venture world (David Sacks).Reuters — David Sacks named White House AI and crypto czar, December 2024
- Industry-funded political vehicles have formed specifically to spend on AI policy races.Money Zebra editorial observation — source pull pending
- California and other states have enacted or advanced AI statutes; federal pre-emption of those laws is an active legislative topic.Money Zebra editorial observation — source pull pending
Watch for Any federal AI bill text that includes a pre-emption clause.
Also on this (6)
- Marc Andreessena16z / policy spending
- Ben Horowitza16z / policy spending
- Peter ThielNetwork / capital
- Sam AltmanOpenAI / federal standard interest
- Mark ZuckerbergMeta / open-source policy interest
- Elon MuskxAI / policy interest
Receipts are sourced. The read is ours. You decide.
Formal authority over a federal lever
Craft Ventures gives David Sacks a direct line to budgets, appointments, and enforcement — hard to replicate from the private sector.
Receipts
- Formal authority over a federal leverAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
How it compounds · Each appointment extends influence past any single news cycle.
The call gets answered
CEOs, diplomats, and committee chairs route around normal channels to reach this desk first.
Receipts
- The call gets answeredAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Term and calendar limits
Every agenda item competes with election clocks and confirmation delays.
Receipts
- Term and calendar limitsAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
What it constrains · Long-horizon bets (industrial policy, treaty architecture) may not outlast the seat.
Congress, courts, and press
The same visibility that creates power also creates veto points.
Receipts
- Congress, courts, and pressAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Watch · Hearings, injunctions, and leak-driven scandals that freeze action.
David Sacks is operating in a role where every public sentence is policy. We read the behaviour through incentives and constraints, not personality labels.
Behavioural dimensions
Political risk tolerance
uncertain
Visible tradeoffs between base loyalty and institutional credibility.
Control vs delegation
uncertain
How much is run from the office vs through appointees.
Status sensitivity
uncertain
Response pattern to public criticism from media or rivals.
Possible drivers
Possible driver: Institutional preservation
Our read: David Sacks optimises for keeping the Craft Ventures functional and aligned with the administration's core coalition, even when that means slow-walking controversial moves.
The behaviour underneath
- Institutional preservationAmerica MZ100 seed card — replace with sourced receipt when researched
Would change our mind When they break publicly with the White House or freeze a signature initiative.
Not a diagnosis. Nobody here has examined David, and no clinical term appears in this section. This is an interpretation of public behaviour by people who are not their doctor. We publish it because when this much power sits with one person, what drives them stops being a private matter — not to excuse anything, and not to explain it away.
Employees
Direct payroll
Direct / controlled payroll (seed estimate)
50
Influence
Media / platform
Media / platform audience (seed estimate)
50M
Sales / customers
Craft Ventures portfolio (seed)
500
Politicians
Politicians / races backed
races / candidates
15
White House AI & Crypto Czar
Trump administration policy role (seed) · 2025
Claimed
Craft Ventures
Owner
Net worth
$1B
$1 billion·$1,000,000,000
As of Sep 2, 2026
MZ100 research estimate (Sep 2026) — not live Forbes scrape
4.00 billion bananas at $0.25 each
Each banana here ≈ $7.9M · 31.75 million bananas
Rough prices for scale — not part of the score.
Not researched for this profile yet.