Marc Andreessen
In October 2024, Andreessen donated $2.5 million to the pro-Trump Right for America PAC.
Andreessen is co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz which is heavily invested in crypto currency, artificial intelligence startups and financial technology firms. Andreessen been heavily involved in shaping the Trump administration and DOGE and said in December 2024 that he was spending “half” his time at Mar-a-Lago to advise Trump on tech and economic policy for his second term
In a private WhatsApp group chat with Trump administration officials and other people in the tech industry, Andreessen attacked immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies on college campuses as “systematically cut[ting] most of the children of the Trump voter base out of […] higher education and corporate America.” Andreessen said universities would “pay the price” for DEI.
Peter Thiel
In his 2014 book Zero to One, declared monarchy to be the best form of government.
Peter Thiel’s wealth primarily stems from early investments in high-growth technology companies, notably PayPal and Facebook, as well as co-founding Palantir Technologies. He also manages investments through his venture capital firm, Founders Fund, which has invested in companies like SpaceX and Airbnb.
Deportation Industrial Complex. Peter Thiel is the co-founder and chairman of Palantir, which has long been the corporate backbone of ICE’s immigrant surveillance and disappearance apparatus. The surveillance tech company, which Thiel owns a $15 billion stake in, provides the agency with key surveillance software to analyze massive amounts of personal data — phone numbers, addresses, financial information, social media profiles — to track and locate their targets. Without Palantir’s technology, ICE would not be able to find, detain, and deport as many people as they currently do.
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta announced in August 2025 that it will launch a CA-focused PAC, Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across California, to back state-level candidates favoring lighter regulation of technology, particularly AI. Meta has already made $218,000 in political contributions in California in 2025.
Zuckerberg dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago at the end of November and attended the inauguration after a $1 million donation to the inaugural fund. In January, Meta settled a lawsuit that Trump had brought against the company in 2021, agreeing to contribute $22 million to the construction of Trump’s presidential library. Weeks before Trump took office, Meta announced that it would be getting rid of fact-checkers, saying they have become too politically biased.
In the months following Trump’s inauguration, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative eliminated its internal diversity, equity and inclusion teams and reportedly pulled funding for a school for low-income children in East Palo Alto and have ended all of its advocacy work.
Zuckerberg has an 11-property compound in Palo Alto, CA spending more than $110 million to purchase the properties. It includes a private school for 14 children and 7,000 square feet of underground bunker space
Priscilla Chan contributed $750,000 to a PAC opposing the recall of Gavin Newsom in 2021. Chan also previously served on Newsom’s Economic Recovery Task Force.