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Pete Buttigieg

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation · 1 appearance on the record.

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Buttigieg rose to prominence as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, before running for president in 2020 and serving as U.S. Secretary of Transportation. A Rhodes Scholar and Navy Reserve veteran, he authored the bestselling books Shortest Way Home and Trust: America's Best Chance.

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2 assertions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 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 Pete 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
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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Everything Pete Buttigieg said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
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
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
Insight
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
Insight
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
Assertion Supported
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

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Appearances (1)

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a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy Jan 2, 2019 3m
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