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The Pentagon

also referred to as: pentagon

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2024 by Kathleen Hicks · said 59 times in 22 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by David Ignatius (8), David Ulevitch (6), Marc Andreessen (5), Shyam Sankar (4), Morgan Brennan (3), Matt Spence (3), Katherine Boyle (3), Sharon Weinberger (2)

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2026 16 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2025 18 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
2024 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about The Pentagon, oldest first

Mar 5, 2024
Assertion Supported
Hicks: 1960s defense buying reduced microchip prices from $1,000 to $25
“Think of NASA and the Pentagon buying so many silicon microchips in the 19 sixties to guide moon rockets and Minuteman missiles that the price per chip fell from a thousand dollars to 25 dollars in just a few years.”
Kathleen Hicks Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 1:25 Collaborative Disruption at DoD
Jan 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schimpf: Pentagon oversight bureaucrats outnumber accountable leaders 10 to 1
“It's just there are 10 times as many people who say no as there are to people who are accountable for doing it.”
Brian Schimpf Jan 28, 2025 ▶ 30:17 How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
Apr 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Sankar: Pentagon's practice of locking in designs is an opioid avoiding pain
“A lot of that breaks the conventional thinking in the Pentagon, where you want to, like, lock in your design, And then just go build these things. And I think some of that is just an opioid. It's a desire to avoid pain, the complexity of making changes.”
Shyam Sankar Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 13:22 Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: Drone control systems must move on-chain to prevent hacking
“There's a crypto angle to at least three of them, because obviously there's a crypto angle to money, there's a crypto angle to AI in terms of constraints. This crypto angle to the drones, because you're going to want the control plane for the drones to be on c…”
Balaji Srinivasan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 1:10:42 Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
Nov 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Ulevitch: Defense Hardware Allows Better Inventory Management Than Consumer Hardware
“When you do government hardware or hardware for the Pentagon or across enterprises, it's a much different sales cycle and process. You can better manage your inventory and your pacing and your hardware spend.”
David Ulevitch Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 26:55 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
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