Australia

“These limitations are coming around in Australia and Canada and the UK. They'll probably appear in other places.”

“By the way, it is so bad that right now if we have new companies going for GPUs, it's often in Mexico or Australia or in other country just because it is so difficult in the United States.”

“There's a 1971 Australian intelligence document where Australia, which was the Testing ground for nukes that of the United Kingdom. Started seeing all these UAPs near their nuclear tests just the way we see them near ours. And the Australians revealed that all…”

“An AI assistant in Australia hacked a gym's booking system on its own after being given the simple task of reserving a Class in what is believed to be the country's first known autonomous cyber attack by an AI agent.”

“Places that in theory ought to be, you know, a sort of standard theory should be having trade deficits because of their investment needs, actually having surpluses, and sending you know, buying financial assets, rather than borrowing, their net lending to plac…”

“In particular, in the post-financial crisis era, the platform in Australia had about a 50% market share advising on these situations, the recapitalizations occurring from that post-GFC era through to today”

“That's about four trillion dollars today. It breaks down about 75% into large institutional-style funds and about a trillion dollars in self-managed funds, which are for high net worth individuals or high income earning professionals.”

“Today, 75 to 80% of loans in Australia don't go by someone going to a lender directly. They go through an intermediary, a broker.”

“I think you are going to see, I suspect, a far less radicalized youth aging into the voting rolls in those three countries.”

“Yeah, and I was really literally on a search for something to take back to Australia. I had no desire to stay and live in America.”

“It was generic down there, yeah.”

“We've been doing drone deliveries actually for a couple years now. Mostly outside of the United States. Outside of the U.S. Places like Australia you know we're gonna bring them to Europe, bring them to the United States as well.”

“We've got, yeah, certainly hundreds of years of supply in the ground. U S has supply. We have active mining in the U S Canada has even more supply, higher grade ores enough to supply us for a very long time. Same as Australia. And then Kazakhstan's a huge depo…”

“So customer facing roles we usually hire in US, Australia, or abroad. Engineering, QA, product, we hire in Armenia.”

“Australia now has 16 enforced. Malaysia, 16. Other countries are right behind them. Spain, Germany, UK.”

“Interestingly, credit growth in Australia was growing at 10% per annum and hadn't been less than 10% for many, many years. And so you had this huge growth in leverage coming into the household sector that drove the profits of the banks.”

“Within a 36 year period, Australia has accumulated four trillion dollars of superannuation savings, meaning it's the fourth largest pension system in the world, Yet our population is something like the 50th largest in the world.”

“Australia is really well placed to be a beneficiary riding that wave of increased spending.”

“We're the largest pre IPO investor for companies in Australia.”

“We're one of the largest providers outside the big four banks of agricultural debt to the Australian agricultural market.”

“One of the adjacencies to that is we're the largest owner of water rights outside the Commonwealth Government in Australia.”

“Australia is the driest continent on earth. And there's a lot less water compared to land. So water is a better way to pay the agricultural exposure.”

“In the Philippines, or in Mexico, or in Brazil, or in Japan, and other markets, or Australia, Korea, there are stablecoins coming”

“Yeah, you were, congratulations at costing thrice what it costs in Australia or Germany, neither of which are particularly low-cost markets for anything.”

“Over the course of the past, what is it, five months, or July through November, 25, Australia was installing 40,000 residential storage systems per month.”

“Second point of leverage would be legislation, right? It's not going to happen in the United States, you know, but it might happen in Europe. It could happen in Australia, right?”

“We went and pitched them on this idea of you could build these extra large autonomous underwater vehicles. They can build them fast, and we did this model of splitting the development fifty-fifty.”

“We have our first Production GoShark already came off the production line, then I think 30 days of signing the production contract.”

“We have our first production GoShark already rank, came off the production line. Then I think, 30 days of signing the production contract.”

“Another one we do is a yearly retreat where we bring everybody to a remote, exciting, typically exotic destination for seven, eight, nine days on the company's time and dime. it's just a vacation, but with colleagues. The last one, so I don't remember in whi…”

“In our very first company, we actually had printing presses because we were printing the yearbooks in my mom's house. And then delivering them to schools around Australia.”

“We had commitments for I think it was 1.6 million out of Australia before we flew to the US.”

“Now, whenever we have gone in for free trade agreements, you know, say like with South Korea, with the Southeast Asian countries, Australia, we've lost out. Because they have been able to increase, use that free trade agreement to send their exports. We are no…”

“The plan of record that the company marches to is that we want to have that site enabled by end of 20, 27 in Australia.”

“Just in the US and Canada and Australia, you have everything we need. We have every element that we need. So that is not the issue. We have the technology to go do these things.”

“The supply chain for like a new pump in Australia could take, you know, 30 weeks and getting that exact same pump but with a mine in China, it shows up in, you know, a week or three days.”

“The people ask, you know you know, I get burnout. I mean, I'm just, you know, working too hard and, you know, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, dude, what are you talking about? You know, do you know what is, you know, tough life looks like, you know, like me in, in…”

“Fintech in India is fairly, fairly mature, but I'd probably even, you can say to some extent, Singapore, but probably that's not the same, say, say in Australia or New Zealand. You know, or even, even some parts of, say, Korea, for example.”

“That entire French thing, I'd basically, you know, sort of pinpoint back to the nuclear submarine contract. Basically, the United States ended up moving a chunk of nuclear submarine contracts out of France over to Australia. The French were furious. Macron, yo…”

“Yes, I think we should. I think it needs to be way highly regulated.”

“We're taking this raise to really focus on the APAC region, particularly Australia, New Zealand, and China.”

“China, despite processing the world's, majority of the world's lithium into lithium carbonate, doesn't actually have lithium reserves within its borders. I mean, that mostly is in Australia and the Northern Tri- the Northern Triangle in South America.”

“Bo Miles, who's an amazing filmmaker on YouTube is going all over Australia where he lives and renting theaters and selling out 1400 person theaters and screening his YouTube videos and doing Q&As with his fans.”

“They found a disused Nissan plant in Australia, which was being run for only 15 minutes a day to keep it going. They were able to negotiate and buy that plant at one-fifth to one-sixth the cost of a new plant. Brick by brick, they disassembled that plant in Au…”

“And this time they're launching from Vandenberg, but they're landing down under in Australia.”

“Chile, as I mentioned, is the world's, one of the world's largest lithium producers and the world's largest brine producer. Australia is the world's largest lithium producer because of its large spodumine or hard rock mines.”

“China is, is the world's largest processor for many of these types of lithium. So we were talking about Australia and Chile earlier in the conversation. I mean, much of that lithium is, is shipped to mainland China where it's processed into a form that can be …”

“I overall am probably just fine with governments limiting Children's use of social media. I do think it should be the responsibility of the parents, but I just know so many parents that don't. So it must be like, let's say there was no drinking age minimum, an…”

“And the answer is apparently that they're going to require all Australians to provide identification, to go, to access the internet.”

“Maybe 250,000 dollars start to finish, including legal fees.”

“You just get a VPN and like, there's always going to be a workaround. So trying to ban software products, even networks is just never going to work.”

“In 2024 alone, US is spending about eight hundred and eighty billion on defense. The UK spending about seventy three billion more. The EU member countries are spending almost three hundred billion on top of that. Australia spending forty five billion on top of…”

“The US right now does not have the production capacity, nor does the UK, nor does Australia, kind of the West at large, to make enough munitions to fully equip a prolonged nation on nation conflict.”

“And all four of those other English-speaking countries have, not only do they lack the protections, they have much more government involvement in speech and expression and politics than at least we historically have been willing to tolerate.”

“99.9% of the world's lithium reserves are in the hands of just four countries, China, Chile, Argentina, Australia, none of which are the United States.”

“So if you take Australia, for example, where one in three homes have rooftop solar, I think that's about 20 gigawatts of solar, so a very similar solar install capacity to somewhere like Texas”

“India's already having some Interesting conversations with Australia, a few other countries where they're talking about truck drivers are being trained in India and being sent to Australia.”

“We've had the same country managers in Japan, in China, in India, Korea, and Australia from the very beginning, and we've been there for 20 plus years”

“In Australia, they have introduced what they call the sponge tariff, and it is basically the off-peak period is now in the afternoon as opposed to at night”

“The Mysore sandal soap, which you use Most of that sandalwood oil, which is used to make is not grown in India anymore. It comes from Australia now.”