George Packer
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697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's like they couldn't believe that someone was actually telling them how to do their business because that had never happened before.
Tech has been totally unregulated, which is why there's a crisis of social media among American teenagers.
And I think that change coincided with a cultural change that I call the new progressivism of
Others call it wokeness that caught on in Silicon Valley, especially among younger engineers and staffers at these companies, and that kind of began to push hard against their leadership.
And some of the leaders...
You know, kind of compromised with it, gave into it, said, we'll do what you want.
We're going to start monitoring speech in our internal deliberations, etc.
And all these things, I think, for a certain number of very powerful tech people were just unacceptable intrusions.
on their right to rule, to rule their industry.
It was just an unacceptable affront to have young people, the left, the federal government, pushing hard against their business.
And that led them all the way over to Trump.
Well, as Sachs said on his podcast just a week before the fundraiser, he knew that a lot of people in the tech world, people up at his level, and by then he was one of the leading venture capitalists,
were for Trump, but they were afraid to say so because it was still socially a bit unacceptable in their world.
It's not something you announced at a dinner party, you didn't tell your employees, but it was something he knew from internal conversations.
And he wanted them to come out of the closet.
He wanted to make it socially okay to be for Trump.
And he believed that this fundraiser where Trump
especially a lot of crypto executives, but also investors and people in other parts of the tech industry would have a chance to.
meet Trump, to hear him out on tech, and to try to influence him, that they'd be there.
And they were there.
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