West

also referred to as: the west

8 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 6 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 4, 2019 by Sam Lessin · across every show →

Everything said about West, oldest first

Feb 4, 2019 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Western democracies lack structures to re-examine constitutional governance for tech
“For instance, I think that things as basic as, you know, the Constitution, et cetera, really are going to have to be reexamined in a lot of ways, and I don't think that we have the social structures to do that very well in the West.”
Sam Lessin Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 28:50 20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
Feb 4, 2019
Insight
Technology and productivity are the only way Western economies retain jobs
“I mean, I would argue that technology and productivity is the only path to having jobs.”
Sam Lessin Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 14:11 20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
Feb 4, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Workers in Western countries engage in very little actual work
“And the answer is in the West, we work very little.”
Sam Lessin Feb 4, 2019 ▶ 14:50 20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
Aug 12, 2024 negative
Opinion
Maguire: People in the West cannot fathom that real evil exists
“Like there's real evil in the world. And I think a lot of people just don't, they can't process that. People today, In the West cannot fathom that there's real evil in the world, and I can tell you very certainly that, like, there is evil.”
Shaun Maguire Aug 12, 2024 ▶ 5:18 Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 12, 2024 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2029
Maguire: China and the East will wildly outproduce West in munitions
“I think that over time, like in a war of production, the East will win. I think that China will just wildly outproduce munitions compared to the West.”
Shaun Maguire Aug 12, 2024 ▶ 1:04:04 Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 12, 2024 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shaun Maguire: Equal outcome equity is communism and will destroy the West
“And the definition of equity Or like the widely accepted definition is, is not creating equal opportunities. It's to have equal outcomes. That is insane. Like the idea that, that like, no matter what someone's work ethic is, or no matter like what their talent…”
Shaun Maguire Aug 12, 2024 ▶ 46:09 Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Grimm: The West lacks munitions capacity for a prolonged nation-state war
“The US right now does not have the production capacity, nor does the UK, nor does Australia, kind of the West at large, to make enough munitions to fully equip a prolonged nation on nation conflict.”
Matt Grimm Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 1:27:58 Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Opinion
Grimm: China is the primary geopolitical threat to Western values
“China, hands down. The mindset of the PRC, I think their approach to basic human rights, I think their conducting of an ongoing genocide with their Uyghur population, I think their approach to free speech, to political assembly, to religious freedom, are funda…”
Matt Grimm Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 0:07 Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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