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Kamala Harris

Principal, The Office of Kamala D. Harris · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kamala Harris served as the 49th Vice President of the United States from 2021 to 2025 and was the Democratic Party nominee in the 2024 presidential election. Previously the Attorney General of California and a U.S. Senator representing California, she has authored books including Smart on Crime and The Truths We Hold.

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5 assertions · 2 opinions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 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 Kamala 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
Harris: Open Justice data showed African Americans were 25% of in-custody deaths
“With open justice, we found African Americans are six percent of California's population, and we're almost 25% of in custody deaths.”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:03 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

259 words/min while actually speaking · 16.7 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Kamala Harris: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,065 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

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

Assertion Supported
Harris: Open Justice data showed African Americans were 25% of in-custody deaths
“With open justice, we found African Americans are six percent of California's population, and we're almost 25% of in custody deaths.”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:03 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Opinion
Harris: U.S. must pass comprehensive immigration reform and fix H-1B visas
“I strongly believe we have to not vilify this community, and we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. We need to deal with H-I-B visas.”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:02 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Opinion
Harris: Government must resist fear-driven reflexive regulation of new tech
“I understand that government sometimes, when presented with something that is new and is, is not known, can respond in a way with fear and wants to just regulate and shut it down. And knowing that as a public servant, I always wanted to cause us to pause and n…”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:27 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Assertion Supported
Harris: Co-sponsoring federal legislation to criminalize cyber exploitation
“With industry, we came up with policies, and right now I'm sponsoring, co-sponsoring legislation to make cyber exploitation a crime, a federal crime because we just need to deal with it.”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:27 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Insight
Harris: Prevention is more efficient than reactive enforcement
“You want to deal with an epidemic, be it health or crime, smartest, most effective and efficient way to deal with it is prevention first. If we're dealing with it in the emergency room or the prison system, far too late and much too expensive. It is not effici…”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:44 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Insight
Harris: Government lacks the skill set and culture to analyze data
“Government does not have the skill set, the culture, or the bandwidth to necessarily analyze this data.”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:36 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Insight
Harris: Cybersecurity policy must prioritize post-attack resilience
“After the attack has happened, there should be equal weight in terms of public policy given to how can we regroup as quickly as possible.”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:10 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Assertion Supported
Harris: California AG office prosecuted the first cyber exploitation case
“So I actually, through my office, through the AG's office, prosecuted the first case, the Bollert case.”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:34 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Assertion Supported
Harris: Negotiating mobile privacy standards with tech platforms avoided regulation
“Over the course of six months, we worked out, I think, an all too rare example of government and industry coming together to solve a problem. Short of regulation or litigation or legislation. And what we did is we came up with an understanding that would, that…”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:02 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Assertion Supported
Harris: California Constitution explicitly guarantees privacy as a right
“It is explicit in the Constitution of California that privacy is a right.”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:20 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris

The other half of the tape: Kamala Harris's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 22 times in 7 episodes on the a16z Podcast. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Marc Andreessen 10Erik Torenberg 8Mark Cuban 3Keith Rabois 1

Statements about Kamala Harris, by other people (3)

Opinion
Keith Rabois claims Jerome Powell lowered interest rates to help Kamala Harris
“I think he has Trump derangement syndrome. He just hates Trump. That's why he artificially lowered rates to try to get Kamala elected. It is indefensible cutting 50 basis points off in, you know, last fall.”
Keith Rabois Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 3:50 Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
Opinion
Mark Cuban says Trump mastered algorithms while Democrats lack effective salespeople
“What Trump has done well is learn how to flood the zone so that no matter what that algorithm finds for you, he's gonna find a way to you. Whether it's a positive or negative and then you look at Kamala and Brat Summer and, you know, fell off a coconut tree. S…”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 4:24 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen: Harris campaign staff regret avoiding long-form podcasts in 2024
“The books are coming out now on the 20, 24 campaign and it's becoming clearer and clearer. Like all the Kamala people now greatly regret that they didn't put her on, on more long form podcasts.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 1:21:12 Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook

Every mention by year

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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2024 7 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 20m
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