This week, the heavyweights of Silicon Valley mixed with the senior Trump administration officials at a conference at Ritz-Carlton in Miami.
The event was organized by Rockbridge Network, a secret organization but increasingly powerful at the Republican Business, Technology and Policy Center. Those who attended included risk capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya and Keith Rabois, Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and real estate developer of real estate converted into the United States with the United States student in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States.
The Rockbridge Red was founded in 2019 by the now vice president JD Vance and the financial Chris Buskirk, with the aim of building a new “political infrastructure” to replace what its founders saw as a failed system.
According to Rockbridge materials, the objective was to create a dynamic alliance, technology oriented, center right, which could the future of the party and “replace the current republican ecosystem of Think Tanks, media organizations and experts in Grunds Dataps” “
And with the emergence of dance and the new youth wing, experts in technology and pragmatic of the GoP-Rockridge and its conferences have reached a completely new level of influence.
“All the purpose is to bring donors, risk capitalists, private capital and CEOs along with high -level officials who make the great decisions for the country,” he told me privileged information from Rockbridge.
Rockbridge has a selective group or less than 200 members. Membership is only by invitation and costs $ 100,000 per year, and money is mainly allocated to political causes. The conferences twice a year have become an opportunity to see friends, raise funds for technology companies and make investments and political donations, all in a single stop
Like any conference, there are panels with speakers with name. The Winklevos Twins, the Bitcoin billionaires who had a dispute with Mark Zuckerberg about who really started Facebook, talked about cryptocurrency. Palantir’s technology director, Shyam Sankar, made a presentation on defense technology.
But, unlike other conferences, rockbridge meetings are intimate and guest matters, similar to the exclusive Sun Valley conference but with a different political advantage. Agreements are reached and members invest in new companies and political causes.
“They are really just friends who come together,” explained a source of the group’s ability to take some of Trump’s senior officials to their events.
And Rockbridge’s results are already significant.
The influence of the organization was on complete exhibition at its November 2024 conference in Las Vegas, a hero shortly after Trump’s electoral victory. Donald Trump Jr. attended, announcing his new role in 1789 Capital, the investment firm co -founded by Buskirk and Omeed Malik.
The Royal firm left the rockbridge meetings and the relations and investments that Malik and Buskirk assured them. It has bone one of the first and most notable voices that criticize the values of ESG and dei, and has made a point of investing in the so -called parallel economy or non -burned companies
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At this week’s conference, Malik revealed his appointment to the Fannie Mae Board. The head of the businessman of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Williamuff, was also present.
“Results such as that are the purpose of creating the new right of center of technology for people,” a source told me. “You are supporting our ideological views for our generation.”
The influence of the group is only growing. Speaking at the event on Sunday, the secretary of the Treasury, Besent, joked that Rockbridge’s work would extend to Donald Trump’s third mandate in 2028.
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