California

“The amount of food we produce in California alone is enormous. Fifty billion last year.”

“Norway is almost at 50% now. The Netherlands is six percent electric. California is five percent electric. But overall, under three percent of today's sales of cars are electric. So it's about 500,000 out of eighteen million cars sold in the U.S.”

“And that if you do fire someone, or if you do lay somebody off, at least in in, in many states, you know, particularly in California, you Your likelihood of getting sued is actually pretty high.”

“In the state of California, once you hit 25 employees, there's a lot of rules and regulations you need to follow.”

“There's a new California law that says all offices that are being built need to have light sensors and motion sensors in every single room, and if a room's not being used, the lights need to be off or at least dimmed to a certain level, and there's all sorts o…”

“Oh yeah, there were bills here in California that would have banned Gmail because it was unthinkable that we would target ads based on what was in your emails.”

“So as a matter of fact, for us, it's much easier to develop our ideas in California, Which has a culture of a young society ready to embrace new technologies compared to the old world like France or Italy or Portugal.”

“What we're going to see is a lot of disparity between whether you're in California or whether you're in Texas and so on. This will be an interesting challenge for startups because they're going to have to deal with a Much more heterogeneous system.”

“With open justice, we found African Americans are six percent of California's population, and we're almost 25% of in custody deaths.”

“What we're now seeing in Asia is that a lot of countries in Asia, including China, their digital revolution is not much more than two to three years behind what's happening in California or in the West.”

“It certainly is that way in Europe. I'm always amazed and slightly appalled that people think of technology in Europe as something that's done by very big companies. That's pretty good technology, but they don't get that this is a game of Positioning of buildi…”

“They're the most stringent regulatory agency, I think, in the world, based on the seismic requirements for the state of California. That's why building hospitals has been so expensive in California for so long.”

“The best example of it working fairly well is in California, where we compete on price, we compete on service, we compete on quality.”

“Ronald Reagan deinstitutionalized California on this and created a lot of homeless when he was governor many years ago.”

“And so there are places in California where we're, you know, engaged with municipal leaders, where Pediatric asthma is over 30%.”

“And in, for the last 10 years, people have been moving out of California. More Americans move out of California every year. Then move in.”

“Many times and increasingly so in California, the cost to deliver is like over 50% of the bill.”

“So the extreme, I think that's right in New York, the extreme, if I recall correctly, but the extreme version was California in the year 2000. In the year 2000, the top, is it go back to the price, price, price is a lot of thing. In the year 2000 50% of tax re…”

“Most of the kind of issues that he's run into have been based on the fact that he is, you know, a modern manufacturing facility that's highly automated. And that's why California in particular has been You know, basically kicked them out of the state.”

“So for us, it was so small. You wouldn't believe it was just California companies who only, who have salaried employees only. So no hourly employees, Who have, you know, no benefits or any other deductions from their payroll. And it's their first payroll ever.”

“We're sitting here in California where they have the infamous prop 13, you know, which was this very explicit, you know, handout to boomers at the expense of basically the, you know, the entire young generation coming up now.”

“There's big agencies out in California where the average hold time on non-emergency calls is 40 minutes.”

“In California, elections are held, but the party always wins, exactly like China. Okay, Democrats destroyed democracy in California.”

“We have a project to build a new city in California. We've bought, you know, four times the acreage of Manhattan in Solano County.”

“California had a bill that would have created unlimited downstream liability for software developers, which would have effectively killed open source.”

“Particularly as you get to more hardware skill sets, manufacturing skill sets, getting them to come to California is a huge problem.”