Pete Buttigieg

5 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Pete Buttigieg · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Buttigieg: South Bend's population is growing again after dropping to 100,000
“We grew up around the auto industry when Studebaker was making cars, and we grew to a scale, ah, about a 130,000 at our peak. Now we're down to about a hundred, but growing again for the first time in a while.”
Pete Buttigieg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:19 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Buttigieg: Service delivery demands prevent local governments from shutting down politically
“You will never hear about a state or a local government shutting down over partisan disagreement, right? We deliver water. You need water to live. And so, it's not even on the table. We are under a pressure to deliver that, I think, compels us to be more open …”
Pete Buttigieg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:35 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
Jan 2, 2019
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Buttigieg: Mid-sized cities are ideal tech testbeds due to mayoral access
“If an idea or a technology or an approach works in a place like South Bend, that matters. We're also small. We're small enough you can get the attention of the mayor. We're small enough we can be creative around any regulations, tear down barriers.”
Pete Buttigieg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:37 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
Jan 2, 2019
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Buttigieg: Internal government bureaucracy is the primary obstacle to innovation
“A lot of the resistance is actually inside government.”
Pete Buttigieg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:44 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Buttigieg: South Bend spent zero city cash deploying LimeBike
“And actually, the biggest issue I've had is just Dealing with people who want to know how much tax money we've spent on it, not understanding the business model, which is that we put no city cash at all.”
Pete Buttigieg Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:01 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
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