Biden administration

12 statements across 6 episodes · 0 bullish · 12 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2024 by Ben Horowitz · across every show →

Everything said about Biden administration, oldest first

Jul 16, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Horowitz: Biden administration sued to block a16z portfolio's Sanofi drug deal
“We have a company with an incredible drug platform. They cured. A rare disease, like past phase one clinical trials, carried it, sell the drug to Sanofi because, you know, so they can get some of the money back to develop more things, and the Biden administrat…”
Ben Horowitz Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 59:34 Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Biden's proposed unrealized gains tax starts at a $100M threshold
“So it is a threshold of a hundred million dollars.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 1:08:04 Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Biden tax proposal calculates startup valuation using last round valuation
“In the black and white of the tax proposal, what they say is that the valuation of the startup for the purpose of calculating the gain is the greater of a number of options, but the, specifically the last round valuation.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 1:09:19 Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Opinion
Horowitz: The Biden administration subverted the rule of law to attack crypto
“They've basically subverted the rule of law to attack The crypto industry.”
Ben Horowitz Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 38:37 Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Opinion
Horowitz: A radical faction controls the Biden administration's tech policies
“These policies are from kind of the radical side, which is, you know, like it's a significant side of the Biden administration but it is, it's a powerful side, and they really are in charge I would say, you know, kind of much more than the moderates.”
Ben Horowitz Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 1:18:16 Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
Nov 12, 2024 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Horowitz: Amish voted Trump because Biden administration raided raw milk farms
“The Amish decided to come out and vote for Trump because the Biden administration, and this is so wild, like, raided their farms because they were selling unpasteurized milk.”
Ben Horowitz Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 15:07 Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
Nov 12, 2024 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Horowitz: Major tech and pharma CEOs couldn't get Biden administration meetings
“It's like every major, you talk to any major tech CEO of the biggest companies in the world of the, you know the biggest pharma companies in the world, none of them could get meetings with this administration.”
Ben Horowitz Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 54:09 Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
Apr 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Vance: Biden hindered tech innovation while Trump facilitates it
“As of a couple of months ago, you have an administration that's working with you and facilitating your hard work instead of making it harder to innovate, which is, I think, what the last administration did”
J.D. Vance Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 1:07 JD Vance on the Future of America
Aug 15, 2025 negative
Opinion
Casado: Biden's AI executive order limited innovation and fueled fear
“Under the Biden administration, we had the executive order which was basically the opposite of what we're seeing today. I mean, it was trying to limit innovation. It was doing a bunch of fear mongering.”
Martin Casado Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 0:47 The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
Aug 20, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Smith: US factory construction boomed under Biden after decades of stagnation
“But when you look at factory construction, real, real factory construction, you saw this enormous, you saw it basically flat at a flat level for decades and decades at a fairly low level. Then you saw this enormous boom during the Biden years and all the facto…”
Noah Smith Aug 20, 2025 ▶ 29:24 Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
Nov 3, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Biden officials explicitly told a16z they planned to ban open-source AI
“They told us that explicitly. And yeah. And they told us exactly what you just said. They told us they're gonna ban open source. And when we challenged them on the ability to ban open source, because it's, you know, we're talking about, you know, math, you kno…”
Marc Andreessen Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 1:01:06 Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
Nov 3, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Biden administration blocked Gulf allies from purchasing US AI chips
“Starting with the Gulf states in October of twenty-twenty-three. Basically, the Gulf states, you know, I'm talking about countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, long-standing U.S. Allies, they weren't allowed to buy chips from the U.S.”
David Sacks Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 48:37 Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
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