Dan Wang
person on 8 shows · 7 statements across 3 episodes · said 47 times in 11 episodes since 2017
BG2 Pod 31 
TBPN 7 
the a16z Podcast 3 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
Catalyst 1 
the MAD Podcast 1
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2026 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
- How to bet on yourself (without venture capital) · Invest Like The Best
- OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
- xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
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2025 37 mentions in 5 episodes 7 per episode
- China, China, China. Breaking Down China’s Tech Surge | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- The Brutal Truth About Biotech: Why $2B Per Drug Is Killing Innovation
- Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- Calibrating hype with Akshat Rathi
- Faster Science, Better Drugs
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7 statements about Dan Wang, every show
Wang: Ideal state capacity lies between the US and China
“One of the, my conclusions, one of my new realizations after writing this book is that Maybe there can be too much state capacity. Maybe you don't want a state to be too efficient. Now, if the engineers are too efficient, and they really decide to track societ…”
Wang: Taiwan status quo persists because it benefits all major players
“Right now I see the status quo persisting because the status quo works well for the Chinese, the Taiwanese and the Americans.”
Wang: Chinese state arbitrarily detained personal friends for years
“I have friends in China who have been detained by the Chinese state arbitrarily for a number of years based on who they were. And based on alleged activities that we don't believe are true.”
Wang: Military conflict between China and Taiwan is not imminent or inevitable
“In his view, the their conflict between Beijing and Taipei is not imminent and not inevitable, and that's kind of my view.”
Wang: China's demographic contraction is a 50-year problem, not 5-year crisis
“Yeah, I think that China's demographic situation is a problem more in the next 50 years rather than the next five years.”
Wang: China will not implode; US-China competition is a long-term grind
“There is no implosion. When one side is ahead, the other side will overstep, and then the, then, and then they'll need to catch up. And so I want to say that there is no winner here. There is no loser here. It's not a race. Nobody gets to hit the win button. A…”
Choksi: Writer Dan Wang built an audience by targeting Tyler Cowen
“One of the things that he told me is that early on, he sort of got the attention of one influencer, who's Tyler Cohen, and his strategy in his head sort of became, is this a piece that I'm writing that Tyler will pay attention to and read, and he only targeted…”