Unlike in the first period, Trump hired a large number of tech giants...Close to Silicon Valley

As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has appointed a large number of tech giants to key positions in the new administration, it has been diagnosed that Silicon Valley and the White House are becoming more closely attached.

Trump named Scott Cooper, managing partner of venture capitalist Andriesen Horowitz, as director of the Office of Personnel Management, a department that coordinates and manages hiring public officials.

"We will help Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to make efficiency a key federal principle," Cooper said in a post on X.

Musk, who leads Tesla and SpaceX, and Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur-turned-politician, have been named as co-heads of the new government's newly established Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Trump also named Sriram Krishnan, a former tech industry member, as senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence (AI) in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Krishnan also served as general partner of Andrierson Horowitz, and previously had a long career with Microsoft and Meta, Twitter, Snap and Yahoo.

Krishnan is also known to be close to Musk, helping him manage Twitter for a while shortly after Musk acquired the company in 2022.

Trump named Ken Howery, co-founder of PayPal and Founders Fund, as the U.S. ambassador to Denmark, while Michael Krazios, who until recently worked for tech start-up ScaleAI, was named the White House chief of science and technology policy.

In addition, former Uber executive Emile Michael was appointed director of research and engineering.

Earlier, Trump also named David Sax, the former chief operating officer of PayPal, as the White House's AI and virtual currency tsar.

Sax is a member of the "Paypal Mafia" who co-founded and succeeded online payment company PayPal with Musk in Silicon Valley in the late 1990s, maintaining strong solidarity.

The tech industry welcomes these key Silicon Valley figures to the White House and the government.

David Marcus, a former Meta executive, called it an "excellent choice," listing the tech industry figures Trump nominated and appointed.

Aaron Levy, CEO of enterprise cloud company Box, also stressed, "It's nice to see the new government support technology," adding, "It's important to have technology-focused leaders in government at a critical inflection point at the national level and pursue future policies."

Earlier, CEOs of major Silicon Valley tech companies have expressed support since Trump's election, and have also visited Trump's home Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in recent weeks.

The U.S. media said this is a significant change from the overall tech industry's tension with Trump during the first Trump period.