Pirate Wires(@PirateWires):Brad Gerstner (@altcap) on how he built Trump Accounts — a new program that gives every American baby a $1k investment account seeded by the U.S. Treasury: “I didn’t hire any lawyers. I didn’t hire any lobbyists. I didn’t have somebody else go do the work for me. I showed up in Washington and I spent over 1,000 hours of my life over the last five years relentlessly building a coalition and a product to win.” The inside story of how one VC took a dinner-table idea (proposed by his teenage son) all the way to the Oval Office… and into federal law. @eventidia reports 👇

2026.08.07 17:21

Brad Gerstner (@altcap) on how he built Trump Accounts — a new program that gives every American baby a $1k investment account seeded by the U.S. Treasury: “I didn’t hire any lawyers. I didn’t hire any lobbyists. I didn’t have somebody else go do the work for me. I showed up in Washington and I spent over 1,000 hours of my life over the last five years relentlessly building a coalition and a product to win.” The inside story of how one VC took a dinner-table idea (proposed by his teenage son) all the way to the Oval Office… and into federal law. @eventidia reports 👇