U.S.

“Seventy billion dollars. Forty million people in the U.S. Are on food stamps. One in seven households.”

“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 more and more you're going to start seeing U.S. And Chinese companies alike take the investment route, taking a minority stake and a global partner and learning from each other.”

“Likewise, you know which products, market fits, and business models are doing incredibly well in China, and you can take those models to the U.S. Before the next Facebook or Google figures that out.”

“The media has trained us into thinking that the world is a zero sum game. If the U.S. Wins, then China loses. If China wins, then the U.S. Loses. This is the narrative that we've been sold because it's what sells magazines. It's what causes people to click int…”

“Between 2016 and 2017, book sales in China for digital books rose by 35%, whereas in the U.S., it trended the opposite direction.”

“South Korea has, you know, sort of famously been much more liberal in terms of legalizing new stem cell-based health projects. And, you know, which look, stem cell research for regenerative medicine looks incredibly exciting. It looks like we might be able to …”

“The last successful new car company in the U.S. Had been Jeep, which was started in 1941.”

“We got to break even in September, 2001. We were the first company in the U.S. To file after nine 11, filed end of September.”

“We're actually really far behind in the U.S. On a lot of this, and so seeing some of the things that have happened in Australia and the U.K. Make their way into major U.S. Team sports, I think we're going to see a lot of changes in NBA, NFL.”

“Revenue in the U.S. From online advertising and from e-commerce has gone from, I think, something like fifty billion adjusted for inflation in 99 to three hundred and fifty billion now.”

“And I've seen estimates that, you know, as much as something like 75% of long-term health spending in the U.S. Is going to be correlated to issues that are Caused at least in part by behavior.”

“Because of falling cost of telecommunication, many of those jobs were outsourced to the Philippines and India. And now you have this Freakonomics reverse thing happening where those jobs are coming back to run in U.S. Data centers as software, not as U.S. Work…”

“I think it's going to happen in the U.S. Eventually.”

“I do think there's a lot of elements in execution that's quite different and local to those markets. That's very different from The U.S. So it's not necessary that a U.S. Player going into those markets has all the advantages. I think there are local advantage…”

“The U.S. Has no, no native testbed for building out services that have Tens of millions of potential users on moderate income living in a small area, and yet that is where many of the next battles over innovation and market share are going to be waged.”

“When I look back at the U.S., I think that the U.S. Has been somewhat damaged by regarding Apple as our official most innovative company.”

“Certainly we have too many venture capital firms, like there, we've got like 500 venture capital firms in the U.S., and certainly there aren't 500 competitors in every market”

“Interestingly, in the U.S., the number of public listed companies in the U.S. Peaked in 1997. Weirdly enough, and you might think it peaked in, like, 2000 or 2002 or something, but it actually peaked in 97, and basically the number of public companies in the U…”

“And it, that evolution, it just happened faster even than we would see in the U.S. So you can go from being, you know, a non-existent company to being the leader to being gone in the course of a couple of years.”

“Only 20% of the payments in Sweden are cash, whereas if you look in the U.S., that's actually 90%”

“The most innovative solutions are coming from the people themselves, and this is what we're seeing in the media with, like, the feel-good stories of refugees who've made it in Germany or made it in the U.S. And brought pieces of their culture, and now they're …”

“But I think we're headed back toward more dynamism. In the U.S. And we will hate it because it will disrupt us.”

“And then commercially, you know, I was talking at, you know, the company is, you know, I want in five years, 80, 80% of Americans in the U.S. To have us in their medical policy.”

“Everything's in like a 10, 15 year time warp from the U.S.”

“Even though we might consider the developing world as being behind, in many respects they're ahead, because the regulations and everything there can actually recognize the fact that you are using newer techniques to positively discriminate against deadbeats, a…”

“So basically, I would say, interestingly, we now virtually have a Cold War in cyber between the U.S. And China.”

“Both China and U.S. Have this sense of kind of manifest destiny”

“No one imagines India is going to displace the U.S. As the predominant power in Asia.”

“And if you look at that in aggregate, about half of people in the U.S. Have a primary care physician at all, which seems astonishingly low, but that's kind of the fact.”

“55% of the private health spend in the U.S. Is through self-insured employers, and they have an enormous amount of power To influence the plans, to influence change across the whole ecosystem.”

“There's about six hundred million business computers in the whole world, and so if you look at the U.S., there's probably about a hundred million,”

“The economists have calculated that just reducing one major disease, let's say cancer, by just 10%, The U.S. Would save about three, four trillion dollars in the long run.”

“Well, I don't think they should wait, but I think they should have common sense and good judgment, and one of the red flags I see sometimes is, you know, and they'll publicly state, oh, we're moving offshore so that we don't have to comply with these laws that…”

“Facebook Hasn't had any users in the U.S. Forever because they have them all.”

“Pinterest, when it goes to a new market, first of all, they figured out they need a lot of local Capitalized content to make it compelling to local users. The U.S. Corpus of images doesn't necessarily, is helpful in international markets, but isn't sufficient.”

“If you had asked me 1520 years ago, will there be another Silicon Valley in the U.S., I would have said yes, for sure. In fact, just the opposite has happened. The Valley's lead has gotten bigger.”

“One out of seven families in the U.S. Is on and off of food stamps,”

“In the U.S., carbon emissions and resource utilization are actually falling.”

“There's a recent report estimating nationwide out-of-pocket spending on health, i.e. Not reimbursed by insurance, is set to hit almost five hundred billion in the U.S. In 2021 and projected to grow to about eight hundred billion by 2026.”

“People will say, oh, China's authoritarian. That's why I can build fast. We're a democracy. We, you know, they're basically making a virtue out of incompetence, right? That's actually not the case because, quote unquote, the U.S. Was a democracy. I mean, if yo…”

“We shipped the Ukrainians what we thought was three years of inventory of stinger and javelin missiles, which are shoulder mounted, really cheap missiles that can take out a tank or something. So for providing that to a human force in Taiwan or the Ukraine, it…”

“The U.S. Has expended thousands of missile and targeting systems. We're talking, I think the latest counts were over 88,500 javelins, ah, you know, 700 plus switchblades, you know, over 1500 stingers”

“Any Taiwan war in which we want to have a fighting chance would necessarily take a while. It would be a protracted conflict. The only quick war would be a, you know, a short war would be a quick Chinese victory.”

“There's, and the numbers varies, but between three to five million apartments and single-family homes missing right now in the U.S., and that number grows by hundreds of thousands of units a year”

“4.3 trillion dollars every year, which is roughly about 20% of GDP is spent on healthcare.”

“There are people who have been close to China over the last 20 years who are starting to wake up and realize that they probably made a big mistake because the moral valence of China is changing in real time as the U.S. Becomes more anti-China, as China becomes…”

“The cultural distribution monopolies have historically been U.S., you know, based. And that's given our creatives a massive advantage over, you know, kind of the global creatives.”

“Before Corona, there were approximately two million homes missing in the U.S. Today the number is six million homes.”

“The U.S. Has lost this muscle of being able to do this efficiently in these big, big mega projects, whether it's an airport or a nuclear reactor.”

“Here in the U.S. With drones and robot delivery systems, maybe we can get to 80%. So I think there's a long way to go.”

“I'm a hundred percent a believer that, like, we're in Cold War II. Now as Neil Ferguson calls it, it's you know, it is the defining geopolitical conflict of the 21st century is U.S. V. China in the same way that the defining conflict of the 20th century was U.…”

“Is it feasible for the U.S. To say we're gonna build our own ASML like tomorrow? No. I mean, it's just gonna take like 10 plus years, right? EUV lithography just takes a really long time.”

“NRAS mutant melanoma, there's about 50,000 patients total in, in the U.S.”

“I think that the mistake is either thinking that China is about cheap labor, or the mistake is thinking that for things to be made in the U.S., it has to recreate three hundred million migrant workers on buses working temporarily and going back home.”

“One is everything's in the U.S. You know, you would think is fairly common, but is unique in the space.”

“We got from zero to a thousand centers across the country. It was about six of the U.S. On our platform really, really quickly.”

“What I would like to see happen between the U.S. And China, basically, is, like, the equivalent of some red telephone during the Cold War, where you can communicate Look, we noticed this, especially when AI becomes a more integrated with like the economy and g…”

“And AI is only happening in two places. It's only U.S. Versus China.”

“There's literally, I think, like one book printer left in the U.S.”

“What I want to say is that the competition, I believe, between the U.S. And China will Last for decades. It will not be solved or resolved through any single technology, not even a technology as crucial as artificial intelligence.”

“Right now, last I checked, China's share of its economy dedicated to manufacturing is about something like 26, 27%, and for the U.S. It is about 10, 11%.”

“When I started at Open Door was only available in 48 buckets in the U.S., It is now available in every market in the U.S. Because, like, you can push pixels relatively easily.”

“I expect in the short term it will be, most of the net new in the US U.S. Will be natural gas. Relative to at least base load energy.”

“And the end result is we have between like 60 and 80,000 chemical compounds in the U.S. That are not allowed in, in the EU.”

“And so I think that the environment that we exist in is just structurally just hard to be healthy, which is why you see the default health outcomes in the U.S. Being so poor.”

“Europe is, is going to run the opposite, you know, test, which is they're going to try to prevent all this from happening, and again, I think the data's already in there which is they're, you know, they're, they've been falling very badly behind economically, …”

“The world's leading producer of silicon carbide, which is a key power semiconductor, is based here in the U.S.”

“Unlike in the U.S., where you can get everything as a service, At every layer of the stack. In many other markets, including Latin America, you just can't do that. There's no sort of, ah, fraud as a stack, KYC as a stack. So you end up having to build everythi…”

“The U.S. Doesn't have a problem with energy generation. It has a problem with speed to power. That's permissioning transmission. That's regulatory.”

“Pre-seed seed, so think sub-one-fifty funds. There's thousand, thousand, close to 2000 today in the U.S. Alone.”

“Like, we've looked at the data of 3000 venture capital firms in the U.S. Only 20 have achieved consistent three X net returns over the last two decades.”