Pete Buttigieg
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Buttigieg rose to prominence as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, before running for president in 2020 and serving as U.S. Secretary of Transportation. A Rhodes Scholar and Navy Reserve veteran, he authored the bestselling books Shortest Way Home and Trust: America's Best Chance.
2shows
2appearances
36statements
12resolved
8supported
1contradicted
67%fully supported
51said about them ↓ Everything Pete Buttigieg said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Buttigieg: The federal government literally invented the internet
“On the other hand, you know, when you talk about capital allocation, the federal government literally invented the internet, right?”
Pete Buttigieg: Extreme concentration of economic power is un-American
“Yeah, if you create a monopoly, I might not like it. If you hurt other people, I might not like it. If you concentrate power into your hands to an extreme extent, I might not like it because that's just not American.”
Buttigieg: DOGE posted data off by three orders of magnitude and deleted it
“The doge we got was one that couldn't even count, that put information, sometimes that was wrong by three orders of magnitude on its own website, then erased its own information because they didn't believe in the transparency.”
Buttigieg: Washington and Democrats are overly attached to existing bureaucratic structures
“I do think that Washington in general, my party's definitely guilty of this, is too attached to all of the, like, structures that we have right now and the existing org charts and existing habits.”
Buttigieg: Project cost overruns represent significant federal waste
“By definition, every penny it takes to build something more than what it was actually required is wasted, and I do think there's a lot of that.”
Buttigieg: Fewer than 40 U.S. House seats are seriously competitive
“So we've got 435 seats in the house. Last time I checked, less than one out of 10 of them is considered to be seriously competitive. At best, like less than 40 are actually competitive, which means in nine out of 10 races, the primary is pretty much it.”
Buttigieg: In no hurry to enter 2028 presidential campaign
“I'll tell you, like, I'm in no hurry to be in the middle of presidential politics.”
Buttigieg: Mid-sized cities are ideal tech testbeds due to mayoral access
“If an idea or a technology or an approach works in a place like South Bend, that matters. We're also small. We're small enough you can get the attention of the mayor. We're small enough we can be creative around any regulations, tear down barriers.”
Buttigieg: South Bend spent zero city cash deploying LimeBike
“And actually, the biggest issue I've had is just Dealing with people who want to know how much tax money we've spent on it, not understanding the business model, which is that we put no city cash at all.”
Buttigieg: Service delivery demands prevent local governments from shutting down politically
“You will never hear about a state or a local government shutting down over partisan disagreement, right? We deliver water. You need water to live. And so, it's not even on the table. We are under a pressure to deliver that, I think, compels us to be more open …”
Buttigieg: Internal government bureaucracy is the primary obstacle to innovation
“A lot of the resistance is actually inside government.”
The other half of the tape: Pete Buttigieg's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 48 times in 15 episodes across the shows. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 17Brad Gerstner 8Chamath Palihapitiya 6Adam Goldstein 5David Sacks 4David Friedberg 4Ryan Petersen 3Erik Torenberg 1
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Calacanis predicts Kamala Harris will become the first female US President
“She winds up actually becoming president, and will be the first female president of the year of the history of the United States, and that could happen in the first term, or if Joe Biden doesn't run for a second term, and they do a halfway decent job, Kamala p…”
Gerstner: Pragmatic, moderate Democrat like Buttigieg will emerge as party nominee
“I think that there is a, there's been a doctrine in the Democratic Party that to win the primary, you got to veer to the left. Right. You got to contend with Bernie. You got to contend with Elizabeth Warren, but ultimately that's a losing strategy in the elect…”
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation | 1 | 31 | 60% 6/10 | full record on All-In → |
| a16zLEDGER | Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation | 1 | 5 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |