How Silicon Valley's Influence in Washington Benefits the Tech Elite

Dozens of Silicon Valley Sycophants Now Work at Regulatory Agencies

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey have stacked the deck.

How Silicon Valley's influence in Washington benefits the tech elite

Since Donald Trump took office, more than three dozen employees, allies, and investors of Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey have taken roles at federal agencies, helping direct billions in contracts to their companies.

Over 36 staff and associates of Tesla’s Elon Musk and fellow tech titans got federal roles that oversee their companies

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos had hoped Musk wouldn’t use his position in government to unfairly benefit himself....

The evolving relationship between tech companies and the media

Camille Bromley of Columbia Journalism Review interviewed Steven Levy of Wired about the evolving relationship between the media and the tech industry. Here is an excerpt: CB: How would you say access to Silicon Valley folks as a whole has changed over the course of your career?  SL: I started in the PC era. The first story I […]

How Silicon Valley’s influence in Washington benefits the tech elite

Since Donald Trump took office, more than three dozen employees, allies, and investors of Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey have taken roles at federal agencies, helping direct billions in contracts to their companies.

Analysis: since January, 36+ staff and associates of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey got federal roles that oversee their companies

Wall Street Journal: Analysis: since January, 36+ staff and associates of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey got federal roles that oversee their companies  —  See how allies of four tech titans are staffing the agencies meant to regulate them, raising ethics flags and securing billions