I don't have any interest in defending Pelosi's stock trades, and I agree that sitting members of Congress should not be trading stocks.
That said, this report seems inaccurate to me. Pelosi put between 1 and 5 million dollars of Forge Investments, which is a method for investing in per-IPO companies, as I understand it. Databricks is one of those, but so is OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic, and Humane. If I wanted to invest in pre-IPO AI companies it seems like a very natural choice and I don't think we need insider trading to explain it.
It's also the case that the report she filed calls out Databricks stock, which is perhaps an indication that she was particularly interested in that. Stronger reporting would tell us how often she's invested in Forge, if this is the first time, and so on. One other possible explanation is that she was investing ahead of the Humane Pin shipping and wanted to pull attention away from it, for example.
That said, this report seems inaccurate to me. Pelosi put between 1 and 5 million dollars of Forge Investments, which is a method for investing in per-IPO companies, as I understand it. Databricks is one of those, but so is OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic, and Humane. If I wanted to invest in pre-IPO AI companies it seems like a very natural choice and I don't think we need insider trading to explain it.
It's also the case that the report she filed calls out Databricks stock, which is perhaps an indication that she was particularly interested in that. Stronger reporting would tell us how often she's invested in Forge, if this is the first time, and so on. One other possible explanation is that she was investing ahead of the Humane Pin shipping and wanted to pull attention away from it, for example.