NGOs
topic on 9 shows · 12 statements across 11 episodes
American Optimist 
Masters of Scale 
BigDeal 
the Neon Show 
the Green Blueprint 
How I Built This 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In 
20VC
12 statements about NGOs, every show
Women-owned NGOs manage Promethean's manufacturing operations
“Women owned NGOs that have now taken over our operations when it comes to producing our own products.”
Sacks: San Francisco gives roughly $2 billion annually to homelessness NGOs
“The city provides something like two billion dollars a year to these NGOs.”
Sacks: Left-wing NGOs laundered over $100M of public money for Antifa
“These NGOs have laundered over a hundred million dollars of our money to fund terrorist violence in our streets.”
Balaji Srinivasan: San Francisco homeless NGOs profit from rising homelessness and addiction
“The homeless industrial complex, so that shows that the NGOs, as their budget rises, the homeless population rises with it. They're basically paid to get people addicted to drugs.”
Lonsdale: Collaborating with federal agencies to target NGO funding networks
“So I think studying SF and studying Austin, Led me to understand the NGO thing, which I then was very helpful with DC, and we actually are working with people running a lot of agencies in DC to go after the NGOs and based on things we've learned in the last se…”
Lonsdale: US NGOs receive over $100B in government funding
“In this country, NGOs receive over a hundred billion dollars of funding from governments now. It's actually probably a lot higher than that.”
Lonsdale: $300B annually goes to unaccountable progressive NGOs
“You literally have, I think, three hundred billion a year are going to NGOs, which is the non-government organizations. These are mostly nonprofits that are, like, trying to, like, do things with progressives, right, and trying to create more activists, and, l…”
The intellectual NGO ecosystem relies on a business model glorifying poverty
“If you, if your you know, great economists are basically glorifying poverty, then don't complain that you get poverty, but because in each one of these things, an economy arises out of it, you know, so you will get an, you know an entire povertarian system wil…”
NGOs criticizing Indian billionaires are hypocritically funded by Western billionaires
“After all, all the NGOs that scream so much about this billionaire problem, all of them are actually funded by Western billionaires. Ah, Soros's Open Society, ah, Omidyar, Ford, Rockefeller, who are all billionaires? The problem is not with Gora billionaires. …”
Quemin: Diplomats frequently exclude NGOs from initial aid negotiations
“Our NGOs are often not very consulted in the first stage of this negotiation, but we are pushing for that. We know what we will need. And that's very different from what diplomats discuss.”
Andrés: NGOs are the third largest employer in America
“We forget that NGOs are the third biggest employer in America.”
Pirzio-Biroli: NGO jobs siphon talent away from entrepreneurship in developing economies
“Every single one of them that gets kind of attracted to going to work for an NGO comes at the opportunity cost of not becoming an entrepreneur. And actually, small business and entrepreneurship is what grows an economy. That's what contributes to GDP. That's w…”