Who Are Elon Musk’s Friends, Investors and Family?

Peter ThielLarry EllisonJoe RoganMaye MuskGwynne ShotwellStephen MillerNelson PeltzDonald Trump A look at the people who influence the world’s richest man, and those who stand to gain from their association with him now. By Theodore Schleifer, Ryan Mac, Lily Boyce and Kirsten Grind Elon Musk occupies a rare place at the center of American power. As the “first…

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Some Prominent Silicon Valley Investors Shift to the Right

In 2021, David Sacks, a prominent venture capital investor and podcast host, said former President Donald J. Trump’s behavior around the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol had disqualified him from being a future political candidate. At a tech conference last week, Mr. Sacks said his view had changed. “I have bigger disagreements with…

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The U.S. Investors Caught in the Scrum Over TikTok

For years, the U.S. investors who backed ByteDance, the Chinese internet company that owns TikTok, have wrestled with the complexities of owning a piece of a geopolitically fraught social media app. Now it’s gotten even more complicated. A bill to force ByteDance to sell TikTok is winding its way through the Senate after sailing through…

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