David Sacks
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David Sacks is a South African-American entrepreneur, investor, and co-host of the 'All-In' podcast. He was the founding COO of PayPal and the founder and CEO of Yammer, and currently serves as a general partner at Craft Ventures.
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Mentions of David Sacks per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, all podcasts.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
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| Aug 16 | 0.09‰ | 2 |
| Aug 17 | 0.09‰ | 1 |
| Aug 28 | 0.03‰ | 1 |
| Sep 1 | 0.06‰ | 1 |
| Sep 2 | 0.10‰ | 1 |
| Sep 3 | 0.12‰ | 1 |
| Sep 9 | 0.07‰ | 1 |
| Sep 11 | 0.10‰ | 2 |
| Sep 12 | 0.14‰ | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 0.64‰ | 17 |
| Sep 15 | 0.94‰ | 10 |
| Sep 16 | 1.12‰ | 8 |
| Sep 17 | 1.18‰ | 4 |
| Sep 18 | 1.35‰ | 7 |
| Sep 19 | 1.43‰ | 5 |
| Sep 21 | 1.07‰ | 5 |
| Sep 22 | 0.83‰ | 2 |
| Sep 23 | 0.67‰ | 2 |
| Sep 24 | 0.63‰ | 2 |
| Sep 25 | 0.48‰ | 2 |
| Sep 26 | 0.38‰ | 1 |
| Sep 27 | 0.40‰ | 1 |
| Sep 28 | 0.43‰ | 6 |
| Sep 29 | 0.44‰ | 2 |
| Sep 30 | 0.45‰ | 3 |
| Oct 1 | 0.46‰ | 2 |
| Oct 2 | 0.66‰ | 9 |
| Oct 5 | 0.52‰ | 3 |
| Oct 6 | 0.49‰ | 1 |
| Oct 7 | 0.46‰ | 2 |
Why is it trending?· Last 30 days
Sacks becomes a central voice in the AI regulation and national-security debate
Shows repeatedly discuss Sacks’s opposition to frontier labs seeking antitrust or liability exemptions, arguing government-backed exemptions could create a durable cartel and weaken competition.[1][2][3]
Today, Explained portrays Sacks as a major Trump AI adviser and says he influenced the administration’s decision on chip sales abroad.[4][5]
Several shows frame Sacks as arguing against both AI extinction warnings and claims that AI will cause widespread job loss.[6]
Pivot criticizes Sacks and technology executives for influencing Trump toward less regulation, while questioning whether companies can responsibly govern AI themselves.[7][8]
Other programs focus on Sacks’s political access and conflicts, including claims that fundraising helped make him the White House AI czar and that he has ties to AI companies.[9][10]
The shows do not agree on his role: some present his position as opposition to government-backed cartel arrangements, while others portray him as an influential insider advancing industry interests.[2][3][8]
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- 1.Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Frontier Labs Want to Slow Down, OpenAI Delays Its 2026 IPO, Anthropic Flags 5 Bioweapon Cases | EP #291Alexander Wissner-Gross · Sep 17 · Listen at 11:40 ↗
“Safety cartel. I mean, I coined this term safety cartel over the weekend the moment I saw Dario's essay. And then our friend at, I guess, our cousin pod, David Sacks, immediately runs with it and starts calling this a proposed cartel. It es”
- 2.Bloomberg Tech · AI Builds Itself as the Spending Boom AcceleratesEd Ludlow · Sep 18 · Listen at 28:43 ↗
“would be impacted? No is the conclusion so far. OK, so the week started with Anthropics CEO Dario Amadei arguing the Frontier Labs will need some antitrust exemptions in the US. so they can coordinate in specific areas as well as have coope”
- 3.Bloomberg Tech · AI Builds Itself as the Spending Boom AcceleratesSpeaker A · Sep 18 · Listen at 30:55 ↗
“So regulatory capture is a huge problem. But what we know from history is that cartels are fragile. are durable are ones that are endorsed by the government. And so I think that is the risk that David Sachs is pointing to, that the types of”
- 4.Today, Explained · Our AI Cold WarSean Rameswaram · Sep 28 · Listen at 3:10 ↗
“And you recently wrote for our Yellow website that a lot of this is On account of, because of a podcast host named David Sacks. Who is David Sacks?”
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