government
also referred to as: the government
5 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 6, 2022 by Katherine Boyle · across every show →
Everything said about government, oldest first
Jun 6, 2022 negative
Jun 6, 2022 neutral
Boyle: VC consensus for decades was to avoid dealing with government
“And so there has been sort of, I think this sort of 20, 30 year sort of do not engage Kind of modern wisdom from venture capital firms has been, it's just too hard. There's so much other stuff to do. There's so much other stuff to build. Let's make sure that w…”
Nov 29, 2022 negative
Rosenthal: Lay and Skilling were worse than Fastow in Enron's fraud
“Like I said, it's not like I still feel a little bit icky about, like, promoting what Fastow is saying now, but I think my conclusion at the end of this is Lay and Skilling truly were the worst, and the government was right to cut plea deals with everybody els…”
May 30, 2023 neutral
Palantir Sold Preloaded Laptops to Comply with Government Cost-Plus Contracts
“Someone told us as we were preparing and researching this episode that Palantir figured out that what they had to do was sell laptops to the government that came preloaded with their software so they could sell a physical thing that had a cost of goods sold as…”
Apr 21, 2025 negative
Government product regulation in commercial markets inevitably creates messy dysfunction
“Anytime you've got government coming in and distorting a market, you're going to get weird stuff happening. And especially anytime you have government coming in and regulating how products are to be developed and used in a market, you're going to get really me…”