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joe biden
SILICON VALLEY February 13, 2024
As the president heads to the West Coast to raise money on the heels of the Hur Report, the big-money crowd is asking existential questions and finding familiar answers. Plus: the inside story of why the R.F.K. super PAC refunded $10 million to Bezos’ security guy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
WASHINGTON February 6, 2024
Exclusive reporting on some of the most bewildering murmurs emanating from the political donor inner sanctum: R.F.K.’s attempt to add Andrew Yang to his ticket and Sam Bankman-Fried’s plan to draft Tom Brady for president. Good luck!
Ken Griffin said he “supported” Nikki Haley, employing the past tense, which suggested that a donation had already been made.
SILICON VALLEY January 30, 2024
News from the Four Seasons Palm Beach summit: Ken Griffin’s cri de coeur, Marc Andreessen’s return to Washington, Tim Draper’s latest Haley check, and the Trump skeptics’ five stages of grief.
Major Republican donors, whose interests and economic persuasions have defined the party since the Reagan era, are at a crossroads this week.
WASHINGTON January 24, 2024
Over the next few days, two Republican confabs may provide a final moment for the donor elite to take a breath and decide how much more money they are willing to let Nikki Haley burn before accepting reality.


Donald Trump prepares to hold a "telerally" at the Hotel Fort Des Moines on January 13, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa.
WASHINGTON January 16, 2024
The Trump campaign has put out the word to major G.O.P. donors that if they’re not on the Trump train by next month, it will be noted on their permanent record—and that forgiveness will get harder thereafter.
R.F.K. is certain to be a major storyline of the election, even if most reporters and pundits have yet to figure out if he’ll be a sideshow or a spoiler.
SILICON VALLEY January 9, 2024
R.F.K. Jr., who has raised upwards of $30 million for his PAC, is hiring top Biden fundraisers and has billionaires clamoring for introductions. But how far will the novelty act go?
Since his conviction, Sam Bankman-Fried’s multi-hundred-million-dollar bet on Anthropic, the effective altruist-aligned A.I. company, has looked increasingly prescient.
SILICON VALLEY January 2, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried’s prescient investment in Anthropic—now worth multiple billions—might help make his defrauded FTX investors whole. How will this impact his parents? His narrative? Or even his sentencing?
WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum has stepped into the political spotlight with a massive bet on Nikki Haley—$10 million and counting.
SILICON VALLEY December 19, 2023
Jan Koum sold his business to Facebook for $19 billion with plans to retire at 45, play ultimate frisbee, and collect rare Porsches. Somehow, he became the next Sheldon Adelson instead.


SILICON VALLEY December 12, 2023
As the countdown to Iowa gets real, the Republican megadonor class is increasingly resistant to burn their cash and end up on Trump’s latest enemies list. Will the cavalry ever come?
A group of aides with close ties to Sam Altman, the OpenAI founder, quietly launched a new super PAC to boost Phillips
SILICON VALLEY December 8, 2023
A group of tech insiders has quietly raised a half-million bucks to launch a new super PAC backing Dean Phillips, the long-shot Democratic presidential challenger.
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