Steelman · slot B
Why we stopped apologizing
A Silicon Valley founder-investor would argue —The Biden administration treated frontier technology as a threat to be contained: vague crypto rules enforced by ruinous actions, an AI executive order pointing toward a regulated oligopoly of a few approved labs, an FTC posture that read every successful company as a defendant-in-waiting. We were told that in exchange for building, hiring, and paying taxes we'd get a free hand — and then the deal was unilaterally torn up. Sacks's bet on Trump is not sycophancy; it is the recognition that if America wants to lead in AI and set the global standard for digital dollars, the private sector has to be allowed to actually build. A stablecoin law backed one-to-one by Treasuries entrenches the dollar. An 80–90 percent global share of the American tech stack is what winning looks like. Europe chose precaution and got stagnation. We are choosing to cook.