Condoleezza Rice
person on 8 shows · 5 statements across 2 episodes · said 16 times in 12 episodes since 2017
All-In 6 
American Optimist 3 
BigDeal 2 
20VC 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
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On the record as a speaker too: Condoleezza Rice across every show, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
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All-In 6American Optimist 320VC 2BigDeal 2the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1Lenny's Podcast 1Capital Allocators 1
2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Political Mastermind: How to Influence Others and Get What You Want - Karl Rove
- Ep 85: The Path to Regime Change in Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi · Joe Lonsdale
- E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
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2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- #AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
- E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more
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2017 1 mention in 1 episode
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5 statements about Condoleezza Rice, every show
Rice: Democratic leadership in AI is safer than authoritarian rule
“I am one who believes that if somebody's going to win the race on these frontier technologies, it had better be a democracy. Because if something goes wrong in AI, and it's quite possible that something will, as a matter of fact, it's probable that something w…”
Rice: No AI specialist or computer scientist I know was surprised by DeepSeek
“Not a single, ah, AI specialist, computer scientist that I know, Was surprised by DeepSeek.”
Rice: Every national security expert I know was surprised by DeepSeek
“Every national security expert that I know was surprised by DeepSeek.”
Rice: Universities would forfeit 11 points of overhead to reduce federal reporting
“So I would trade the federal government 11 points on what's called the indirect cost recovery. In other words, the overhead that the government pays. I trade 11 points if you don't make me report, ah, to the degree that you do.”
Sacks: Bill Burns's 2008 memo called Ukrainian NATO entry Russia's brightest red line
“In 2008, he wrote a memo To Condoleezza Rice, who was then the Secretary of State, and what he said is, this is about Ukrainian entry into NATO, he said, Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all red lines for the Russian elite, not just Putin.”