Donald Trump

“Him becoming the president would be the worst thing that has happened in the history of the United States since its inception. I think he is a racist pig who makes other Racist, sexist, misogynistic, disgusting people feel like they are allowed to share those …”

“So I think eschewing the next four years of Washington, because Trump is a controversial figure, would be a bad choice for tech companies and for founders in particular.”

“Yeah, more for humanity than Trump ever has, and that's a pretty low benchmark.”

“Some of Trump's policies, certainly on the tax side, were very helpful for the business. I think Trump in general, no, not helpful for the business. A huge distraction, a huge amount of, like, social unrest and concern and but from, like hey, were we able to d…”

“I don't think so. I think, I bet DeSantis wins. I think it will be tough for him to circumnavigate all the legal troubles, and I wonder if the RNC doesn't get involved.”

“I believe very strongly that by undermining the rule of law, On which contracts exchange and property depend by alienating the rest of the world and by pitting some groups of Americans against other groups of Americans and devaluing the idea of unity and commo…”

“My taxes went up, whatever, 15% under Trump.”

“My assumption is he will be in jail before the election, so I don't know if you can.”

“I think he'll be running and winning from a jail cell as well. The entertaining, the most entertaining outcome is is the most likely, right?”

“I personally think, you know, he's going to be leaning into crypto in a big way in 24, 24, that's my prediction, but we'll see.”

“You know, as you've probably seen on Twitter, I don't even believe he's gonna be the Republican nominee for president.”

“Yes, certainly with a different head of the FTC, it's, I mean, the pendulum has swung all the way in the other direction. I think you could argue that antitrust was extremely weak for a generation, and now it's swung all the way in the other direction, so I wo…”

“You'd think that a Republican would be a little softer on regulation, but honestly, he was not the traditional conservative Republican free market. He was a populist and he hated the big tech companies because they were so critical of him and they almost steer…”

“I think Trump's extremely imperfect. He has all sorts of issues that bother me. You know, I think it's very problematic. I wish we had other people, but I think his side Is more likely to push these things in the right direction in terms of the stuff that's re…”

“The single thing that I'm concerned about is Trump winning on multiple dimensions, giving away Ukraine you know, Supreme Court justices, very, very, very poor execution of every aspect of government a level of corruption. That I think would follow.”

“Likely, and I have no inside information here, I think ByteDance waits for the election, because they presume that Trump could get bought off by investors since, you know, he's a coin-operated person in his entire life, not just as in his presidency.”

“I try to really pay attention to what's happening, like to what people actually say and from first principles and all this, but even I had never seen the full clip of what he said in Charlottesville until about four months ago or so. And I tweeted about this, …”

“If Trump gets elected, then I think it was a phenomenal pick because I think that JD is really, really smart, really capable, can actually, like, would be one of the best VPs you could possibly have on the job. But in terms of getting elected, I don't think th…”

“If you look at what actually happened, I think that Trump was the best president in the modern era. At dealing with Russia, the best at dealing with Iran, the best at dealing with China.”

“You know, I wrote this long ex post eight years ago. I was incredibly afraid of Trump and, you know, voted for Hillary and donated to Hillary. And four years ago, I didn't vote because I didn't like either option.”

“I don't think that Trump did much more to incite the January six insurrection than what Hillary did of denying the election results.”

“From an Iranian perspective, if they knew that Kamala Harris was going to win, then they will happily wait six months for her to be in office and then go do whatever they want to do. If they think that Trump is going to win, then they need to do whatever they …”

“100%.”

“In my Sequoia inbox, the last 12 hours probably 20 Like climate people have emailed most Sequoia partners saying that like Doug Leone is problematic for supporting Trump and that Trump has anti-climate positions and they don't know how they can support, like h…”

“Yes, absolutely.”

“So there's going to be a wave of more M&A, right? Especially if, you know, pros and cons looking at the stock market, but if Trump remains pro M&A, You know, as long as your pesky Europe doesn't get in the way this is going to be a golden age of M&A. Like, jus…”

“Well, just his approach to less regulation in general. Again, this is less of an overhang for companies just to focus on building true innovative products without the need to constantly feel like they're going to trip some government wire.”

“No. Easy bet if you read the docs. Basically if you look at the one big, beautiful bill, I can't believe I said that without laughing. The corporate tax rate was changed permanently in 2017. So there's no way to touch it now. It's 21%. It's not going to be cha…”

“Now, president Trump is actually, I think trying to do his best from what I can tell in at least giving America enough freedom to innovate that these standards can even be discovered in our labs here. Because first you need somebody to actually pioneer and fig…”

“Like, to me, I think he's like a very founder president, right? Like, I think he's, He actually makes bold decisions and tries to like mold the future. But I think a lot of politicians are just very much dictated by the flows of polling.”

“I think he Is arguably one of the best presidents the United States has had in, in this term. There's so much propaganda and things, but at the end of the day he's doing an incredible job, and there's always gonna be criticisms.”