Jim Gilliam
Founder & CEO, NationBuilder. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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12statements
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Everything Jim Gilliam said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gilliam: Restricting who can use political platforms is a dangerous slippery slope
“If we start to decide who has the right to run for office, or who has the right to lead, or who has the right to organize, it's a really, really slippery slope.”
Gilliam: Internet systems will make traditional elections and government irrelevant
“But I think as more and more people do that, you know, the institutions of elections and politics and even government will become less and less relevant to people's lives as completely new systems are built by leaders outside of that system creating something …”
Gilliam: Democratic political software is a monopoly, unlike Republican tech
“In general, the Democrats have one system. There's a monopoly behind it. Everybody has to use one system. On the Republican side, it's much more, there's a lot more competition.”
Gilliam: The world will shift from 250 nations to 250 million digital nations
“Part of the reason our company's called NationBuilder is the idea that there won't just be 250 nations in the world anymore. There'll be two hundred and fifty million of them.”
Gilliam: Clinton spent eight times more on software than Trump
“Hillary Clinton spent eight times more on software than Donald Trump did.”
Gilliam: NationBuilder was first to make national voter files free
“We compiled the voter file nationally and started to provide it for free, offering software for 29 bucks a month to go run for office. First time anybody's ever done that. Provide it for free to anybody running for office, even if you don't use Nation Boulder.”
Gilliam: Deep, meaningful understanding between opposing views is impossible online
“We have to, like, very intentionally figure out ways for people to come together and start to hear and understand each other in ways that are really deeply meaningful. It's impossible, I believe, to occur at all online at this point.”
IBM killed a 1982 OS deal to protect its Microsoft relationship
“They killed the deal because of IBM didn't want to mess up the relationship with this new guy, Bill Gates or his company, Microsoft.”
Gilliam: All outsider 2016 presidential candidates used NationBuilder
“All of the outsider presidential candidates used NationBuilder.”
Gilliam: Building custom tech distracts campaigns from developing resonant messages
“What we've seen is that, like, the campaigns that spend an awful lot of time putting together the technology in different ways, they lose sight of, like, oh, what is the actual message that's going to reach people?”
Blog readers pressured UCLA into granting Jim Gilliam a lung transplant
“Some of the folks who as were like reading my blog and sort of following what was going on one of them sent an email to UCLA and was like, what's going on? This is crazy. Like you're only doing easy surgeries. No wonder your statistics are so great. It's not o…”
Gilliam: Pew study shows 54% leave groups over poor leadership
“There's a there's a study done a few years ago by Pew, and they went and they identified 27 different types of groups. Everything from, like, political parties and unions to, like, fantasy sports leagues. And they went and they asked them a bunch of different …”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jim's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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