January 9 2026 CA Exodus Sacks in Austin, Texas Moved in December Austin office for Craft Ventures Chamath started the process in December - nothing decided yet Sacks’s broker helping Chamath find a place A lot of people are hedging their bets Larry Page going to Florida maybe Chamath claims $0.5T net worth of his friends have left Even Reid Hoffman thinks the proposed wealth tax is insane This is not going away - the leftists want it to go through The problem is the fraud - fix the fraud first then decide on taxes Sergey also probably left CA is also levying more taxes based on super voting - this is why the Google founders likely left Seizing assets tax - does it get on the ballot and does it go through Friedberg - No, and so No Mamdani and Cea Weaver communist rhetoric going up Collectivism over individualism Seize people’s property Predictions show Template Last year Friedberg Gavin Jason Chamath This year Friedberg Jason Chamath Sacks ...
Jan 8 2026 AirForce One stories Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Last year look back on experience coming in Outcome driven - working hard and failing is failure, not working and succeeding is success In department - cut 52000 → 40000 people Government has typically many specialists, not generalists - Secretary’s job is to put those together Scope BIS - Bureau of Industry and Security Tariffs Import/Export assist model (Boeing closely follows them for example) NTIA - Telecom, Spectrum, 6G?, AI GDP published - use the census, business census Publish on the blockchain Patent office NOAA - Oceans and Atmosphere Now there is Office of space commerce Tariffs Trade deficit is not buying stuff from a supermarket Its actually them owning you 1985 US owned more of the world - $148B 2026 they own more of us - $26T Trade deals Japan Hard to open them up culturally, economically, socially, technically (all of them) So slapped 25% tariffs Japan auto industr...