Gary Gensler

Everything Gary Gensler said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

The other half of the tape: Gary Gensler's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 73 times in 25 episodes across the shows. 12 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 29David Sacks 22Mark Cuban 8Brian Armstrong 6Chamath Palihapitiya 4Michael Selig 1David Friedberg 1Anatoly Yakovenko 1

Statements about Gary Gensler, by other people (12)

ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sacks: Gensler and Warren formed an alliance to destroy US crypto

“What's clear is that Gensler and Elizabeth Warren have an alliance to destroy crypto in the US.”

David Sacks Jun 10, 2023 ▶ 18:13 E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!

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Sacks: SEC under Gensler used meetings as honeypots to investigate founders

“Crypto companies would tell me they would go see the SEC. The SEC would tell them nothing about what the rules were, but they would have enforcement people in those meetings just writing down everything they would say. And the next day they would get sent a We…”

David Sacks Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 43:46 DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s

ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported

Lonsdale: Coinbase and Winklevosses refuse to hire Gensler's SEC staff

“They won't even hire anyone who worked with Gary on any of this stuff they were doing.”

Joe Lonsdale Dec 7, 2024 ▶ 21:17 New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale

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Mark Cuban calls SEC Chairman Gary Gensler a moron

“Look at the SEC with Gary Gensler. The guy's a moron.”

Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 58:50 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris

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Cuban: FTX and 3AC would survive under Japanese crypto regulation

“If he had followed the same rules for crypto that Japan did, FTX would still be in business. Sam Bankman-Free might still be in jail, But FTX, three euros capital, they, they'd still be in business, because he did the wrong thing.”

Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 1:20:14 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris

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Armstrong: Gensler and Warren do not want crypto in the US

“Right, along with Elizabeth Warren, who, they just don't want crypto to exist in the United States.”

Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 4:03 All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong

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Armstrong: SEC Chair Gensler weaponized the agency for political purposes

“Unfortunately, we have a regulator the chair of the SEC, who's kind of weaponized the agency for his own political purposes.”

Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 3:54 All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong

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CFTC Chair Selig claims Biden administration relentlessly attacked crypto firms

“Right around twenty-twenty-one, twenty-twenty-two, every week my clients would get a subpoena from Gary Gensler or from the CFTC, and were faced with this onslaught of regulation by enforcement. They were faced with regulations that did not work for their busi…”

Michael Selig Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 6:34 They're Opening the Stock Market to Everyone. Here's What That Actually Means

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Sacks predicts Congress will codify crypto rules, ending SEC enforcement actions

“So, look, the bottom line here is that I think that we are close to having clear rules of the road codified by Congress, which is what the crypto industry's been asking for, and the days of Gensler terrorizing crypto companies by issuing Wells notices without …”

David Sacks Nov 16, 2024 ▶ 1:56 Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI

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Cuban: SEC Chair Gary Gensler practices regulation through litigation

“The point there is he has an approach that is regulation through litigation. He's going to sue you first, ask questions later, and hope that the result of that litigation becomes a rule that everybody else has to follow.”

Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 1:18:56 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris

ALL-IN Opinion

Calacanis agrees SEC should regulate utility tokens as speculative investments

“Utility tokens with, you know, laundry mat tokens or tickets to the opera, and he said entrepreneurs are choosing to perceive their tokens as utility to sidestep regulation and that, here's the quote, they are highly speculative investment tokens for people wh…”

Jason Calacanis Oct 9, 2021 ▶ 32:17 E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more

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Cuban says his comments on running SEC were just trolling Gary Gensler

“I was just trolling Gary Gansler. Yeah, I was just trolling Gary Gansler because it's fun to do.”

Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 1:15:15 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Gary's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
ALL-INLEDGER	Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission	0 +1	0	—	full record on All-In →