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Teddy Schleifer

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In 2025, coverage tied to Teddy Schleifer concentrated on Elon Musk’s break with Trump, FTX’s political aftermath, and billionaires’ growing influence in media and government.

Who they are

Teddy Schleifer appears in this corpus as a reporter focused on the political, philanthropic, and institutional power of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest figures. The coverage repeatedly places him around tech leaders and their companies—including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX—when money, political access, charitable claims, or corporate influence become the story.

The recent arc

Recent coverage shifted toward the collision of technology wealth and national politics. The strongest 2025 cluster followed Musk’s proximity to the Trump administration and then the strain on that alliance: a January New York Times report described Musk bringing friends and employees into government, while May and June stories examined his frustrations with Trump and the tech sector’s concern over their rift. A June Noahpinion item on Musk’s opposition to the Senate tax bill extended that theme to AI-related energy policy.

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The tension

The central tension is between billionaires’ claims to civic or philanthropic purpose and the political leverage their wealth can create. Schleifer’s confirmed relationship with Julia Ferraioli centers on criticism of Silicon Valley billionaires using Opportunity Zones as tax breaks while presenting investments as charity; the FTX coverage, including allegations of more than 300 unlawful political donations, and the Musk-Trump stories show the same broader concern from different directions: capital, access, and public legitimacy.

Why it matters

If this trajectory continues, coverage around Schleifer will remain a useful lens on how tech fortunes move beyond company-building into elections, regulation, media, philanthropy, and government staffing. The unresolved question is whether scrutiny of those links changes the behavior of figures such as Musk and other technology leaders, or merely makes their political alignment and influence more overt.

Teddy Schleifer has appeared in 68 articles since 2017-11. Coverage peaked in 2025Q2 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Trump, Facebook, FTX, America.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-03-11
CNBC 11 related

Asana announces CEO Dustin Moskovitz is retiring, and reports Q4 sales rose 10% YoY to $188.3M, in line with estimates; ASAN drops 25%+

>CEO and Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz to retire. $ASAN: -27% AH [image] Vijar Kohli / @vijarkohli : Dustin Moskovitz is finally retiring. I've used Asana for years. It's actually a great product. The c...

2025-01-29
New York Times 1 related

Sources detail Elon Musk's time in government, bringing his friends and employees, as he races to cut staff; Musk's plane has not left DC since the inauguration

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u... X: Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : NEW: Elon Musk's fingerprints are all over these controversial memos from the Office of Personnel Management. In fact, Musk showe...

2024-10-06
Axios 15 related

Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July

tech oligarchs depend heavily on their access in washington, so will do everything they can to keep it.  a16z desperately wants washington to legitimize crypto, so they can get a return on their signi...

2024-09-24
New York Times

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg wants to get away from politics, pulling back from charitable causes that may seem partisan, tamping down employee activism, and more

It was only a little more than a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had few qualms about airing his politics. X: @fredbauerblog , @argojournal , @nick_field90 , and @teddyschleifer X: Fred Bauer / @fredb...

2024-03-26
The San Francisco Standard

How Ripple's Chris Larsen became a gravitational force in San Fransisco politics, donating millions to local causes, as he helps Mayor London Breed's reelection

he also spent $42K to cover Breed's big ethics fine in 2021. Unclear how much he'll spend to help Breed get reelected this yr, but he's got strong words for her challengers. Josh Koehn / @josh_koehn :...

2024-02-24
Puck

A look at Marc Andreessen and a16z's political efforts, including starting the Keep Startups in America PAC and giving millions to a pro-crypto dark money group

How did Marc Andreessen get so red-pilled? The Facebook board member was further “radicalized” by the FB-Russia scandal, a friend tells me. “He felt the company was trying to be liberal and constantly...

2022-09-09
9to5Mac 20 related

Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and Tim Cook partner to launch the Steve Jobs Archive, a website featuring emails, videos, and historical materials tied to Jobs

Steve Jobs, 1994 Welcome to the Steve Jobs Archive. Let's make something wonderful. https://stevejobsarchive.com/ https://twitter.com/... Uzma / @uzmabarlaskar : Tim Cook flippantly asks someone to ju...

2021-09-26
Fortune 4 related

Jeremy Liew, Bijan Sabet, and Roger Ehrenberg stepping back from active roles at their firms reflects a broader generational shift in the VC industry

many of whom announced this week. Really feels like a ‘changing of the guard moment’ for the venture community. Austen Allred / @austen : Is there an overarching reason why so many VCs are stepping do...

2021-03-11
Forbes

Q&A with Chris Sacca on his brief retirement, Trump and Biden, investing in climate startups, how investing has changed, NFTs, and more

In 2015, venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Silicon Valley's most influential investors, No. 3 on the Midas List with more than one million Twitter followers … Tweets: @sacca , @alexrkonrad , @...

2021-02-06
Vox

Hawkfish, the Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that first helped his and later Joe Biden's 2020 election campaigns, is shutting down in May

It's the latest retrenchment from major Democratic donors in the aftermath of the 2020 election.  —  SHARE All sharing options Tweets: @teddyschleifer Tweets: Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : With ...

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