America
part of Americas
43 statements across 30 episodes · 20 bullish · 14 bearish · 27 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Michelle You · across every show →
Everything said about America, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Michelle You: London founders naturally build for global markets from day one
“I think in America, I can say it because I'm American, it's really easy to just think that American, America's all there is, because it's dominant force. It's where a lot of, you know, dominant force in culture and technology, and it's easy to just think about…”
Jan 2, 2019
Khanna: US gig workers now outnumber manufacturing workers by millions
“We're at the point now where there are more people, Surviving in the sharing economy, you know, so as, you know, part-time workers, digital workforce, gigonomists, whatever term you want to use, you know, freelancers as a whole, some estimate 30 to forty milli…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Feb 26, 2019
Dennis Nazarov: Base crypto layers resemble countries while top-layer apps resemble corporations
“And maybe an analogy is the base layer is sort of like a country. It's like, you're a citizen of America. You get to vote and participate in, you know, elections and to decide kind of policy. Taxation policy is the substrate for all economic activity built on …”
Nov 16, 2022
Mar 1, 2023
US law mandates free mail-in entries for all paid contests
“So there's this obscure law in America that says that you can enter any competition for free. So you hear on the radio, you can pay to enter, but they always bury in the terms of service that if you mail an obscure letter to an obscure address, you can enter f…”
Aug 2, 2023 negative
Horowitz: Dividing America by race is dangerous and unlikely to end peacefully
“This whole idea that we have in America these days that we should divide ourselves by race seems just exceptionally dangerous in that, you know, like maybe it doesn't end in genocide but the chance of it ending in something peaceful and good and unifying is ju…”
Oct 21, 2023 negative
Andreessen: Most US industries operate as government-captured cartels, not free markets
“We don't in America today in most industries actually live in what you call a free market system. We live in more of a captured kind of Big business cartel ecosystem, and you look just across sort of sector after sector after sector, what you see are sort of t…”
Dec 15, 2023
Neumann: 66% of Americans under 35 rent and spend 33% on rent
“66% of 35 year olds and younger in America, adults, are renters. They spend a third of their income. This is, this number is so big it's hard to comprehend. They 66% of adults in America that are younger than 35 are renters. They spend a third of their income …”
Feb 8, 2024 bullish
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Mar 5, 2024 neutral
Mar 18, 2024 positive
Apr 2, 2024 negative
Horowitz: Big Tech's political interests diverge from America's national interest
“Big tech has been present in Washington, but big tech's interests are not only very different than kind of startup innovation, innovators' interests, but we think also kind of divergent from America's interest as a whole.”
May 16, 2024 bullish
Andreessen: An Operation Warp Speed for manufacturing can make US number one
“I think there's a path here. You might almost call this like a, you know, sort of like an operation warp speed for manufacturing, where you just basically lean hard into this and you say, look, we're gonna be, we, America will once again be the number one manu…”
May 20, 2024 negative
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
Sivulka: United States will maintain global lead in AI
“America, I believe, is so far ahead, and I think that it will continue to be so far ahead and these technologies, you know, every single year are so much exponentially better than the last year that we have the head start, and I think that we'll continue to ha…”
Apr 23, 2025 negative
Aug 20, 2025 positive
Aug 20, 2025 positive
Smith: Elon Musk is the only entrepreneur to scale US manufacturing
“Who's the only entrepreneur who's been able to successfully scale manufacturing in America, you know, even in the face of international competition, and it's been pretty credible because his supply chains are far more domestically sourced than most manufacture…”
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Nov 3, 2025 negative
Feb 4, 2026 negative
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Karp: America's key advantage is empowering neurodivergent and individualistic talent
“And that's how this country, by the way, if we are going to outperform the rest of the world our single advantage is to augment neurodivergent It highly individual people to be their absolutely unique best and protect their first, second, fourth, and fifth ame…”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Mar 12, 2026 negative
Mar 20, 2026 negative
Mar 20, 2026 negative
Apr 14, 2026 negative
May 6, 2026 bullish
May 6, 2026 bullish
Isaacman: NASA astronauts will build President Trump's moon base
“When we return to the moon, America will not look down on the prime lunar real estate while our rivals occupy it. NASA astronauts will be on the surface, building President Trump's moon base, and we will realize the scientific, economic, and national security …”
May 6, 2026 bullish
Isaacman: Artemis II mission will launch around the Moon in coming weeks
“In the weeks ahead, America will send the brave Artemis II astronauts potentially farther into space than any humans have ever traveled in generations flying around the moon on a ten-day mission to test the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft befor…”
May 8, 2026 positive
May 8, 2026 neutral
May 8, 2026 bullish
May 8, 2026 positive
Horowitz: American global influence stems from winning industrial revolution through tech
“Why does America have the influence it has today from a military standpoint, from an economic standpoint, from a cultural standpoint? It comes back to, well, we won the industrial revolution and we did that because we had superior technology”
May 8, 2026 positive
Jul 3, 2026 positive
Ben Horowitz: America must lead in technology to maintain overall global leadership
“And that means America has to be a leader. It has to be a leader economically. It has to be a leader culturally. It has to be a leader militarily. And to do that, We have to be a leader technologically. We have to be a tech leader.”
Jul 3, 2026 positive
Ben Horowitz: America is the best country for resource-poor entrepreneurs
“If you're, drop a person into any country in the world, and they don't have the culture, and they don't have money and capital resources yet, and they just have an idea of how to make the world a better place Their best shot is in America.”