大衛奧利弗薩克斯（；）是美國企業家、作家和的投資者。他是創投公司的普通合夥人，在這之前，他則是 PayPal 的營運長和產品主管（2002 年被 EBay 以 15 億美元收購），以及 Yammer 的創始人兼 CEO（2012 年被微軟用 12 億美元收購）。2016 年，他作為的 CEO 領導著這家公司命運轉變的關鍵點；2017 年，他參與共同創立 Craft Ventures，此時這家公司還是一個早期的創投公司。他的天使投資人包括 Facebook、Uber、SpaceX、Palantir Technologies 和 Airbnb。他還是電臺節目 All In 的聯合主持人。 2024 年 12 月，他被時任美國總統當選人唐納川普宣佈即將出任第二次川普政府的新職務「AI 和加密貨幣」。 早年經歷和學業 薩克斯出生於南非開普敦，五歲時舉家移民至田納西州 。薩克斯並不想和他的父親一樣成為一名內分泌學家；他從祖父身上獲得靈感，而他的祖父則於 1920 年代以一間糖果工廠起家。 薩克斯進入了位於孟菲斯的就讀。1994 年他於史丹佛大學攻讀經濟學並獲得文學學士學位，並於 1998 年自芝加哥大學法學院取得法律博士學位。Davis Joshua University of Chicago Magazine SeptOct 2007 Volume 100 Issue 1 Take 20 個人生活 薩克斯於 2007 年 7 月 7 日與妻子賈桂琳託托里斯結婚。夫妻兩人共同育有兩個女兒和一個兒子。 職業生涯 PayPal In 1999 Sacks left his job as a management consultant for McKinsey Company to join ecommerce service PayPal which had been cofounded the year before by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel As PayPals COO and product leader he built many of the companys key teams and was responsible for product management and design sales and marketing business development international customer service fraud operations and human resources functions During his tenure PayPal grew payment volume from zero to 35 billion per year and revenue from zero to over 100 million in 2001 The company introduced business accounts and expanded into multiple currencies and over 80 countries PayPal had their initial public offering in February 2002 It was one of the first IPOs after the September 11 attacks The stock rose more than 54 on the first dayKane Margaret CNET 15 February 2002 PayPal shares make strong debut In October 2002 eBay acquired PayPal for 15 billionCNN Money 20020708 eBay buys PayPal for 15B Sacks is a member of the socalled PayPal Mafia a group of founders and early employees of PayPal who went on to found a series of other successful technology companies They are often credited with inspiring Web 20 and for the reemergence of consumerfocused Internet companies after the dot com bust of 2001Banks Marcus San Francisco Chronicle 16 May 2008 Nonfiction review Once Youre Lucky Thank You for Smoking Following PayPals acquisition Sacks produced and financed the movie Thank You for Smoking through his independent production company Room 9 Entertainment Based on Christopher Buckleys 1994 novel of the same title and adapted for the screen by director Jason Reitman Thank You for Smoking is a satirical look at the culture of spin The cast included Aaron Eckhart William H Macy Sam Elliott Rob Lowe Maria Bello Katie Holmes Adam Brody and Robert Duvall Thank You for Smoking was nominated for two Golden Globes in 2007 for Best Picture and Best Actor in the ComedyMusical category The movie also won Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards Audience Awards at both the Munich and Norwegian Film Festivals Best First Feature at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Best Adapted Screenplay at the Washington DC Film Critics Association Awards and the San Diego Film Critics Association Awards and Top Films of the Year at the New York Film Critics Online Genicom In 2006 Sacks founded Genicom a genealogy website that enables family members to collaboratively build an online family tree At Geni he wanted more visibility into what was going on across the organization so the team created a productivity tool to help employees share information In 2008 Sacks and cofounder Adam Pisoni spun this internal communications tool into a standalone company called YammerTaylor Colleen TechCrunch 25 June 2012 Memory Lane Watch The Moment In 2008 When Yammer Launched As A Standalone Business Geni was acquired by MyHeritage in 2012Lynley Matthew Wall Street Journal 28 November 2012 MyHeritage Raises 25 Million Acquires Geni Yammer In 2008 Yammer launched the first Enterprise Social Network a secure solution for internal corporate communication and collaboration winning the grand prize at TechCrunch50 conferenceSchonfeld Erick TechCrunch 10 September 2012 Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50 According to Social Capital Yammers viral approach made it among the fastestgrowing SoftwareasaService SaaS companies in history exceeding eight million enterprise users in just four years Yammer received approximately US142 million in funding from venture capital firms such as Charles River Ventures Founders Fund Emergence Capital Partners and Goldcrest InvestmentsHesseldahl Arik AllThingsD 29 February 2012 Yammer Lands 85 Million Funding Round From Draper Fisher Jurvetson In July 2012 Microsoft acquired Yammer for 12 billion as a core part of its cloudsocial strategyLardinois Frederic TechCrunch 19 July 2012 Microsoft Completes Its 12B Yammer Acquisition Zenefits In December 2014 Sacks made a major investment in Zenefits In January 2016 Zenefits board asked him to step in as interim CEO amidst a regulatory crisis regarding the companys licensing compliance Over the next year Sacks negotiated a resolution with insurance regulators across the US receiving praise for righting the ship Sacks also revamped Zenefits product line with an initiative he named Z2 introducing a SaaS business model Shortly after PC Magazine would note Zenefits had become the best HR software on the market Sacks was succeeded by former Ooyala CEO Jay Fulcher Angel investments Sacks has been investing in technology companies for twenty years As an angel investor his investments include Addepar Affirm Airbnb Bird Clutter Eventbrite Facebook Gusto Houzz Intercom Mixpanel Opendoor Palantir Technologies PayPal Postmates ResearchGate Scribd Slack SpaceX SurveyMonkey ThirdLove Uber and WishRao Leena TechCrunch 8 November 2011 Max Levchin Keith Rabois And David Sacks Back The Uber For Carwashes Cherry Craft Ventures In late 2017 Sacks cofounded Craft Ventures and raised an initial fund of 350 million Craft raised 11B in 2021 which brought total assets under management to 2B according to a Medium post published by the company Unicorns in Craft Ventures Fund I and Fund II include Bird BitGo ClickUp Pipe Reddit SourceGraph and SpaceX 政治立場 批評政治正確 薩克斯在大學時就曾與彼得泰爾合著《多元神話：史丹佛大學的多元文化主義與不寬容政治》一書，由在 1995 年出版。該書對於美國高等教育的政治正確現象加以批判，並強調大學校園需要更多的多元智慧。然而 2016 年時，薩克斯為書中部分章節進行道歉。 贊助選舉活動 根據聯邦選舉委員會的紀錄，薩克斯曾於 2012 年美國總統選舉時捐款 50000 美元給共和黨候選人米特羅姆尼陣營。2016 年，他贊助 70000 美元給民主黨候選人希拉里克林頓的競選團隊。 2022 年 2 月 15 日，舊金山教育委員會針對三位委員柯林斯（Collins）、莫利加（Moliga）和羅培茲（Lopez）進行罷免，薩克斯是資助罷免案的最大貢獻者。他也是共和黨的重要金主，曾與他的前同事兼合夥人為包括 JD萬斯和布雷克馬斯特斯在內的聯邦參議員候選人發起 2022 年春季募款活動。 2023 年 5 月 24 日，時任佛州州長羅恩德桑蒂斯在 Twitter 上宣佈投入 2024 年美國總統選舉共和黨初選，薩克斯即擔任其競選活動主持人；他讚揚了迪尚特並捐助 50000 美元給競選團隊。之後在同年 6 月，薩克斯為小羅伯特弗朗西斯肯尼迪舉辦了要價 10000 美元 盤的募款活動。他也於 2024 年 6 月為唐納川普舉行了 1200 萬美元的募款活動，地點就在自己家。2024 年共和黨全國代表大會上，他被邀請上臺演說；並最終於總統大選中投票給川普。 俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭 自 2022 年 10 月以來，薩克斯針對俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭持續發表看法，並對於美國援助烏克蘭一事持反對態度，尤其是軍事上的支援。2024 年共和黨全國代表大會期間，薩克斯稱「美國『挑釁』俄羅斯導致烏克蘭被入侵」，並否認是因主張不幹預主義遭致黨代表們的噓聲。 獲得獎項 《》 40 Under 40 David Sacks 2012 San Francisco Business Times 24 February 2012 40 Under 40 Workforce Management Game Changers Award David Sacks 2011 Workforce Management 2011 Game Changers Award 《舊金山商業時報》 Bay Areas Most Admired CEOs 2011 San Francisco Business Times 2011 Bay Areas Most Admired CEOs 參考文獻 外部連結 訪談 CategoryPayPal 人物 Category20 世紀美國猶太人 Category 孟菲斯人 Category 史丹佛大學校友 Category 芝加哥大學法學院校友 Category 美國執行長 Category 南非猶太人 Category 移民美國的南非人 Category21 世紀美國猶太人