George Packer
speaker
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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And it raised something like $12 million.
And J.D.
Vance was there, too, by the way.
And Sachs had played an important role in bringing Vance into the sort of inner circle of Trump, along with Don Trump Jr.
So there was a kind of a coalescing
of these two worlds, Trump world, tech world, that Vance represented part of and that Sachs was instrumental in sort of catalyzing.
And we should talk about Peter Thiel because he has played a very important role both in J.D.
Vance's career but also in the life of David Sachs.
They were at Stanford together.
Thiel is a law student.
Sachs is an undergrad.
They were on the Stanford Review together, which was a conservative publication that Thiel founded.
And they co-wrote –
a book called The Myth of Diversity that was sort of an anti-PC, as the term was back then.
This was in the mid-'90s.
Anti-PC, anti-multiculturalism diatribe against sort of the takeover of elite higher education by the left.
And it was kind of consciously in the tradition of William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale, except it was the left at Stanford.
And it got them both a lot of attention, and I think it formed a bond between them.
And so when Teal co-founded an online payments company that became PayPal – co-founded it, by the way, with Elon Musk –
He brought his friend David Sachs in as the chief of products and Sachs played a very important role in developing email as the system of payments.
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