Trump Appoints Coinbase Co-Founder, Silicon Valley Heavyweights to Presidential Science and Technology Council
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President Donald Trump has named the first 13 members of his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), stacking the panel with chief executives from the nation’s largest technology companies alongside prominent figures from the cryptocurrency and venture capital sectors. The appointments, announced by the White House on Wednesday, place digital asset industry voices alongside artificial intelligence and semiconductor leaders at the highest level of presidential science advice for the first time. The council will be co-chaired by David Sacks, the White House AI and crypto czar, and Michael Kratsios, Trump’s assistant for science and technology, who previously served as the nation’s chief technology officer during the president’s first term. Sacks, a former PayPal executive and co-founder of venture capital firm Craft Ventures, has been the administration’s point person on digital asset policy since his appointment in December 2024. A council weighted toward industry The roster reads like an invitation list to a Fortune 50 boardroom. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell all received appointments. Andreessen Horowitz general partner Marc Andreessen — one of the most active crypto-sector venture investors in the United States — rounds out the contingent of high-profile technology figures. For the digital assets industry, the most consequential appointment may be Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase and co-founder of Paradigm, the crypto-focused venture capital firm. Ehrsam’s presence, combined with Sacks’s role as co-chair and Andreessen’s deep portfolio of blockchain investments through a16z, gives the cryptocurrency sector at least three advocates on a panel originally designed to advise the president on matters of science and technology policy. Zuckerberg, in a statement sent to AFP, said the United States has…
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