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From the White House Podium to the Red Umbrella
She was Hillary Clinton's press secretary at 27, built a women's financial business inside Citigroup, and now runs marketing for one of America's largest insurers. The through-line is a stool with four legs and a plate of spaghetti.
David Sacks
David Sacks is a South African-born Silicon Valley operator turned venture capitalist and political power broker. He was PayPal's first product leader and COO, founded and sold Yammer to Microsoft for $1.2 billion, rescued Zenefits as interim CEO, and co-founded Craft Ventures, which manages billions in assets. He is a co-host of the chart-topping All-In podcast and served as the first White House AI and Crypto Czar in the second Trump administration before stepping aside in March 2026.
Jared Bernstein
Jared Bernstein is an American economist who chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2023 to 2025, capping a career built around one question: how the economy works for people who earn paychecks rather than collect dividends. A jazz double-bassist turned social worker turned policy economist, he spent decades at the Economic Policy Institute, advised Joe Biden as his chief economist, and championed full employment and rising wages for low- and middle-income workers. He is the author of Crunch and The Reconnection Agenda, a longtime CNBC contributor, and a prolific blogger and columnist.
Sriram Krishnan
Sriram Krishnan is the Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence under President Trump, appointed January 2025. A Chennai-born engineer turned VC, he is one of few tech operators to have held senior product roles at Facebook, Snap, and Twitter simultaneously. As a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) from 2021 to 2024, he opened the firm's first international office in London. He co-authored the American AI Action Plan and co-hosts The Aarthi and Sriram Show podcast with his wife. Named a Time 'Architect of Artificial Intelligence' in 2025.
Dean Ball
Dean Ball is a leading AI policy scholar, writer, and former White House advisor who shaped America's AI strategy from the inside. As Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, co-host of the AI Summer podcast, and author of the widely-read Hyperdimensional newsletter, he makes the case for market-driven, light-touch governance of frontier AI - arguing that private governance mechanisms, not government mandates, are the right framework for the most transformative technology of our time.