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Some investors and technology executives are trying to influence the incoming Trump administration to appoint people from within Silicon Valley to cabinet positions. The New York Times reported.
Given Elon Musk’s strong relationship with Donald Trump, much of tech leaders’ persuasion efforts have been directed toward him.
Friends of Musk, such as Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir and venture firm 8VC, have suggested names of potential prime ministers.
Several Silicon Valley executives recommended Emil Michael, Uber’s former chief operating officer, to head the Department of Transportation. Before joining Uber in 2011, Michael worked in the Obama administration as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to Robert Gates at the Department of Defense. Michael was reportedly forced to leave Uber in 2017, shortly before Uber founder Travis Kalanick was forced to resign from the company.
Jim O’Neill, who worked with Peter Thiel to found the Thiel Fellowship, a program that wants young tech entrepreneurs to drop out of college, has been proposed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. O’Neill was running to head the Food and Drug Administration during Trump’s first administration, according to the New York Times.
Although O’Neill was under consideration, Trump on Thursday chose Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, to lead the Health Department.
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