Natasha Tiku

very much armed with this top concern from Marc Andreessen, which is like the AI doomers and their push for more oversight and regulation and wanting to fight back against that.

And yeah, it's just a really interesting cultural battle because now we see Susie Wiles, who

who's coming in, you know, without this technical expertise and Scott Besant, who might be hearing from the banks who have access to mythos and, you know, want to make sure that their platforms are secure.

So that, yeah, there's this real power struggle.

But so far, I think we've seen that once you leave as a special government employee, once you leave office, you can still have a lot of influence.

Like David Sachs seems to still very much be in the mix.

Exactly, exactly.

Yeah, when people were kind of harping on, you know, what was in Sachs' current portfolio with crypto and AI, you know, kind of showing those conflicts of interest, I was just like, well, once he's out of office, I mean, that's when you can really start.

I mean, you are, you know, now like buddy-buddy with Jensen Wong.

He just has so much more clout and influence and reach than he had before.

And...

I mean, that's what you need for deal flow.

So I think like any conflicts of interest we saw while they were in office, it's it's just going to really take off now.

Well, at least during the Trump administration, he was the one writing, you know, some of that like anti-woke EO, the AI action plan.

But I was going to say, I thought like the quintessential image was they did a town hall and Mark Zuckerberg was interviewing Barack Obama.

So it was like, actually, I would say that, that like we sell ads is much later.

There was that, um,

The love-in came first.

Yeah, or maybe, like, Jack Dorsey in his Stay Woke shirt.

That was, like, a little bit more like when the Dems and tech were in cahoots.