Antonio Gracias
Founder & CEO, Valor Equity Partners. On 1 show, 6 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Antonio Gracias founded Chicago-based private equity firm Valor Equity Partners in 1995, pioneering an operational growth investment strategy. He was an early institutional backer and director at Tesla, a major shareholder and board member at SpaceX, and a team lead volunteering with the Department of Government Efficiency.
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58statements
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20said about them ↓ Everything Antonio Gracias said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gracias: DOGE found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states
“We looked at the voter rolls. We found these people, thousands of them on the voter rolls, and we found many of those people had voted, right? In one state in particular, well over a thousand voted.”
Gracias: 1.3M non-citizens with flagged Social Security numbers receive Medicaid
“We found in the benefit programs that every benefit program that was being accessed by these people, you know, 1.3 million of them are on Medicaid right now, today.”
Gracias: Flagged Social Security numbers yielded terrorist watchlist hits
“We sent this data list to the National Targeting Center. They, and I don't want to get too far into the data, but I can tell you they found hard hits in the Targeting Center of very bad people. Criminals and people on terrorist watch list that are in this grou…”
DOGE sampling found non-citizens registered to vote and actually voting
“We have sampled a handful of states and in those handful of states we found people registered to vote, and we have found people who actually voted”
Gracias: DOGE voter investigations yielded arrests in Florida and New York
“We had already three arrests here in Florida, actually, and one indictment in New York.”
Gracias: One DOGE engineer finds 10 to 20 non-citizen voters daily
“It takes an engineer about a day to find 10 to 20 cases per state in sampling.”
Gracias: Biden administration raised citizenship database API fees, deterring states
“In the Biden administration, they raised the price, when I think about a dollar, an API call, to three dollars and change the API call, and all the states stop using it.”
Gracias: Social Security will go bankrupt between 2032 and 2037
“Man, this system's going bankrupt. It's going to be bankrupt in 23 to seven. The country overall, as you guys know, talked about many times, is on its way toward bankruptcy.”
Gracias: DOGE found 2.4M questionable non-citizen Social Security entries
“This is about 5.4 million people total. There were about 1.2 million people that the status is marked as unknown, and about 1.2 million people that were marked as general parole.”
Gracias: US policy funneled $13B to $15B annually to human traffickers
“You've got to realize we gave 13 to fifteen billion dollars a year to human traffickers.”
Gracias: Social Security Administration issued numbers based on minimal ID
“You get a Social Security number before we got here by walking in office. Answering, you know, with a medical record and a school ID that had your name and your date, the date of birth on it.”
Gracias warns US federal bureaucracy risks becoming a Latin American kleptocracy
“What I'm afraid of now is we have a bureaucracy that is about to turn into a kleptocracy. I mean, a Latin American style kleptocracy.”
Gracias: xAI will win AI race due to cluster efficiency and data
“It's a 100,000 GPU cluster. It's the most dense coherent cluster in the world, and it will just train faster and better. Than other clusters. And it's also built for the most cheaply, and the fastest. So, XAI will have the highest training capital, and I also …”
Gracias: Electric VTOL startups will earn basic industrial margins due to competition
“SpaceX is an end of one. If you compare that to someone making an electric vehicle that, say, an electric airplane or electric VTOL, that will not be an end of one. It'll be an end of many. And in an end of many business, you're ultimately going to have margin…”
Gracias: US can cut spending 15% without touching core entitlements
“I think if we had the political will, you'd easily get that 15%, no problem. Not without any problem at all, and without cutting the core entitlement programs.”
Gracias: 88% of departing federal workers took voluntary severance packages
“I think it's 88% of the people that have left the government have taken packages. The packages are very lucrative. There's, you know, nine months or so of severance and they're voluntary.”
Gracias: Secretary Noem signed memo making SAVE citizenship database access free
“Secretary of Homeland Security, I want to thank her, Secretary Noem, has just signed a memo, a policy memo, to make it free.”
Gracias: DOGE will overhaul both legal and illegal immigration systems
“These programs, I've mapped the entire system now they go from DHS to State Department to labor. They're very disconnected, and they're hard to manage, so we are going to work on this. One of the things we are going to work on and hopefully leave behind is bot…”
Gracias: January 1st was the most common birthdate in border data
“When we looked at the birth certificate data that was presented at the border, the number one birth date was one. And it was four times more likely to be born on one-on-one than any other day of the year.”
Gracias: 23% of analyzed border records lacked fingerprint biometrics
“We found that 23% of the records we looked at did not have fingerprints.”
Gracias: Over 70 border agents committed suicide during recent border surge
“Both Border Patrol and Border Protection told me they had the highest suicide rates of all time during the surge. Okay, over 70, over 70 of these agents committed suicide in this period.”
Gracias: 1980s amnesty turned California into a solidly blue state
“Ronald Reagan signed amnesty, and you know, some, four years later, it is now a solidly blue state, and I think some of us on this program, I know you, Jason, are a refugee from California because of that, because of some of those policies, and I want to be, I…”
Gracias: US government lacks controller function and accounting reconciliation to pass audits
“There is no control. There is no controller. There's no reconciliation. The reason they can't pass audits.”
Gracias: Orbital rockets will enable sub-hour point-to-point global Earth transport
“Yeah, I mean, look, Gavin could jump in here too, but the reality is once you could take that much mass to orbit, you can move anything around the planet very quickly. You can kind of go up or spin below you and come down. So transportation generally changes. …”
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