Data Collective

“I grew up in D.C. You know, my mother's a police officer. My dad, you know, dealing with drugs, and you know what I'm saying? It's a whole nother lifestyle.”

“And so we think very, very much about the fact that DC and Silicon Valley are inevitably smashing together. In a whole bunch of different ways, but one of them is actually methodologically.”

“Eric is working with a lot of folks in DC to think about this concept of, he calls it the long-term stock exchange, but again, similar idea, which is how do we incent both management teams and employees, as well as incent shareholders to kind of think longer t…”

“I like to say that DC is a fact for Free zone. And relying on a congressional office or an agency to figure out how your business works by, you know, jumping onto the internet and, you know, doing a news search isn't enough.”

“In my discussions in D.C., this is actually the thing they care about the most.”

“I often say D.C. Got what we were doing a lot earlier than the people in Silicon Valley, but now it's just sort of an obvious thing.”

“I think, though, it's hard to have a real business in, you know, let's say, not only the DoD, honestly, but also if you're selling to the government broadly, without really having a presence in D.C. With, you know, folks, you know, who come from the ecosystem,…”

“DC is the zero-sum game. There's something positive out there, so it has to accrue to the DC power base.”