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Ken Howery
Co-founder, Founders Fund; US ambassador to Denmark
PayPal co-founder and first CFO. Co-founded Founders Fund. Served as US ambassador to Sweden during the first Trump term (2019–21). Nominated for Denmark in December 2024, confirmed by the Senate on October 7, 2025, and presented credentials in Copenhagen on November 5, 2025, in the middle of the Greenland dispute. Trump's nomination statement said US ownership of Greenland was 'an absolute necessity.' A direct line from a defense-tech fund's founders to a sitting diplomatic post.
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