U.S. government
also referred to as: the us government · u s government · us government
26 statements across 21 episodes · 8 bullish · 6 bearish · 15 people on the record · first statement Aug 20, 2018 by Avichal Garg · across every show →
Everything said about U.S. government, oldest first
Aug 20, 2018 positive
Oct 29, 2018 bullish
Oct 29, 2018 positive
Oct 29, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 bullish
US government procurement spending is ten times Amazon's Gross Merchandise Volume
“The U.S. Government spends a trillion dollars a year on stuff. Forget about, like, missiles and submarines. I'm talking about, like, paper and pencils. It's 10 times Amazon's current GMV, just what the U.S. Government spends every year.”
Oct 1, 2020 bullish
Boyle: Anduril Solved a 30-Year Government Defense Incentive Problem
“Same thing with creating new defense companies like Andrel. For 30 years, the government has not been able to figure out how do we build new technology and how do we incentivize Silicon Valley to work with us, and Andrel has figured out how to align the incent…”
Nov 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2023 negative
Mar 24, 2023 negative
Jan 17, 2024
Apr 3, 2024 neutral
Jun 10, 2024
US Tech Giants Have Legal Autonomy That Chinese Counterparts Lack
“Google does not work for the US government. Microsoft does not work for the US government. There is, there's ways they're accountable by law, but they have to go through a legal process for that kind of thing. And so, given that legal process doesn't exist wit…”
Jan 22, 2025 neutral
Sivulka: DOGE will be Elon Musk's greatest challenge
“I think it will be his greatest challenge. I think there's a lot of self-reinforcing Self-protecting mechanisms in the largest organization in the world, which is kind of the U.S. Government by spend, by head, you know, it's just this massive, unruly organizat…”
Jan 22, 2025
Jan 29, 2025
Ross proposes automated matching subsidies to deter foreign AI and tech intervention
“There needs to be some sort of Automated response of like, if you do this, we will respond. If you subsidize this industry, we will automatically subsidize the equivalent industry. Just automatic. So don't do it because there's no benefit to you.”
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Jun 26, 2025 negative
Rory O'Driscoll: US government will not seize control of AI companies in 2025
“I still think no. I think, I just think, you know, ah any, I think the, just the push from the folks on the tech side has been very much AI for good, not AI to control it. I think all the very active tech people from David Sachs to Andreessen Horwitz, their ap…”
Feb 5, 2026 bullish
Mar 12, 2026 bearish
Lemkin: US government will block Anthropic indefinitely regardless of court rulings
“The government's going to say you're either going to agree to this or we're going to freeze you out of the US economy. And it doesn't matter what a court says. Because they'll come up with another justification. There'll be another one. There'll be a different…”
Mar 12, 2026 neutral
Mar 23, 2026 neutral
Apr 14, 2026 neutral
Midha: US Cloud Act gives US government access to American-managed data
“The, you know, the US Cloud Act says that, hey, if there's mission, if there's any data workloads, infrastructure, cloud workloads running on infrastructure that is managed by an American company, then the US government has to be able to access that data.”
Apr 25, 2026 positive
Jun 18, 2026 negative
O'Driscoll: US AI restrictions will prove unsustainable within 24 months
“And you're right, what it points to is this is going to be an unsustainable medium-term position, right? It's hard to imagine, like, unless the US government really wants to start regulating AI up and down the board, this is going to be, it's going to sound li…”
Jun 25, 2026 negative