David Sacks

Like you said, there was this huge outpouring of people in Silicon Valley who reacted to

in a way that showed that they understood that this story was a hit piece, that it was biased.

And I'd say most importantly, it didn't even live up to its own headline.

It didn't prove the thing that they were asserting in the headline.

And so everyone could just see on its face that it was a hatchet job.

And so everyone started reacting that way.

And it was nice to get that outpouring of support from so many different people in Silicon Valley, including many of the companies who we just talked about are so vigorously competing with each other.

I mean, I think this might be the only thing that Sam and Elon have agreed on in the last year.

So that was sort of the next that was the next big lie that the media tried to perpetrate was somehow that this response was coordinated by me.

No.

No, I never told anyone to do anything except for you guys.

And I told you guys not to react to it because I didn't want to strice and the story, you know, where you basically draw even more attention to it.

That was my media plan.

And then what happened is the story just went viral anyway, because all Silicon Valley reacted on their own in a grassroots and authentic way, because I think they were actually genuinely offended by how bad the story was, how ridiculous it was on its face.

And so they react, and then that became the story.

And so this whole coordinated narrative became, in a way, part of the media industry's cover-up for itself, like their attempt to explain away why everybody thought that the story was so bad.

Let me just say, I do think that this outpouring of support does illustrate something important, which is just how much power and respect the New York Times has lost.

You know, 10 years ago,

If the New York Times ran a hit piece on somebody, even if other people didn't like it, they wouldn't want to say anything because they'd be afraid that they would be the next target.

And that mystique and that fear has completely broken down.