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Doug Ducey

CEO, Citizens for Free Enterprise · 1 appearance on the record.

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Doug Ducey served as the 23rd Governor of Arizona from 2015 to 2023, enacting universal school choice, deregulation, and flat-tax reforms. Prior to his political career, he was the CEO of Cold Stone Creamery from 1995 to 2007, scaling the business into a major national franchise.

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1 prediction · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Doug argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Ducey: Restrictive regulations in other states drove AV testing to Arizona
“The New York Times front page of the business section recognized that self-driving vehicles were coming to Arizona today. To learn. And that was actually a result of other governors pushing them out and saying, we're going to hit you with permitting fees. We'r…”
Doug Ducey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:42 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy

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Everything Doug Ducey said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Ducey: Arizona fired agency head who planned sting against Uber and Lyft
“Our agency head at the Department of Weights and Measures told us that his plan during the Super Bowl was to shut down Uber and Lyft with a sting, and we thought this guy didn't pay much attention to the campaign. So we returned him to the private sector that …”
Doug Ducey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:50 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
Assertion Supported
Ducey: Restrictive regulations in other states drove AV testing to Arizona
“The New York Times front page of the business section recognized that self-driving vehicles were coming to Arizona today. To learn. And that was actually a result of other governors pushing them out and saying, we're going to hit you with permitting fees. We'r…”
Doug Ducey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:42 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
Opinion
Ducey: Autonomous vehicles are nearly ready for prime time
“I've ridden in three autonomous vehicles, and boy, these things are very close to ready for prime time.”
Doug Ducey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:11 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
Insight
Ducey: Bureaucrats default to institutional refusal, requiring leaders to change culture
“Oftentimes, a bureaucrat, they will default to that, so as a leader, you have to change the culture.”
Doug Ducey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:12 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
Prediction Held up
Ducey: Arizona will eliminate 500 regulations from the books this year
“In Arizona, we will wipe from the books this calendar year, 500 regulations.”
Doug Ducey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:33 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
Assertion Supported
Ducey: 94% of America's 38,000 annual traffic deaths stem from human error
“I think we have 38,000 deaths annually in America, 94% of them, due to human error.”
Doug Ducey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:29 a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy

The other half of the tape: Doug Ducey's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes on the a16z Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

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a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy Jan 2, 2019 4m
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