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“In D.C. In May where we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying, and we came out basically deciding we had to endorse Trump.”

“The time of software, how much companies are going to spend on software is going to be a hundred X for what it is today.”

“He, Donald Trump, is the most effective and capable political athlete we have ever seen.”

“And so it turns out in the past, this ambiguity about where crypto assets set, you know, sit between the two federal regulators, that lack of clarity was really weaponized and by Gary Gensler, the former SEC chair, and Elizabeth Warren and people like that who…”

“Well, ok, so Elizabeth Warren is you know, in my view, she's a socialist. She believes the government should be running all financial services.”

“I'd actually argue the average person in Silicon Valley is not as smart as like the average person in New York finance, right? They're not the best marketers. They're not the best at anything. The advantage in Silicon Valley was actually knowing how to write t…”

“The really unkind thing one could say is that the people who are most upset about AI art are the people who are making stuff that has no particular authenticity originality. I mean, if you, if you've made, if you wrote 10 vampire romance books last year and yo…”

“Even though, for example, I caught her fabricating quotes in her book, Perversion of Justice, which was based on the initial Miami Herald series.”

“There's never been a credible allegation of rape ever discovered that that took place on that island”

“That's the crux of the Epstein mythology, and it's been systematically unraveled Included partially by this, the disclosure of more Epstein files, but even prior to January 30th or December 19th, the two productions, there was never any credible evidence for a…”

“The evidence shows that he's been bold faced lying. About every aspect of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.”

“My fundamental view is that AI has been on an exponential for the last 10 years and as part of a sort of Moore's law for intelligence, and that we are now well advanced on that curve, and there are only a small number of years for AI models surpassing the cogn…”

“We've gone from 7000 people. We're now below 3000. We've shrank 50%.”

“Well, that would mean that you would leave mean significant, you would need significantly less.”

“The use of inside information gets to the truth faster. And I think that has value, especially if it uncovers corruption or misdeeds. And so if people make money along the way, and that's the incentive that it takes for folks to work around what would otherwis…”

“Every category that I know of outside of engineering and product is at existential risk of shrinking seats.”

“Yeah, Microsoft's not in the race, bro. Where, where are they? They, I know, but they're getting owned.”

“We have to guarantee zero percent financing for all data centers. We'll get all our money back.”

“I think the industry could hit a hundred billion ARR by the end of this year, like 45, 50 for open AI, like 35, 40 for anthropic.”

“Coca-Cola spending one hundred forty million dollars to influence our nutrition guidelines like they have over the last, you know, 15 years.”

“In recent months, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang has privately emphasized to industry associates that the original one hundred billion dollar agreement was non-binding And not finalized. He also said, he also privately criticized what he described as a lack of discipl…”

“This whole climate change thing was Al Gore's big hoax going back to the nineties.”

“Because if you think everything in 20, 21 was either priced wrong and makes a one X or early and just totally wrong and makes, you know, less than one X, let's just say, right? Other than a few companies that were the early precursors of AI”

“And so we can make generic pills here in the United States cheaper than what we can buy them for from India or China.”

“So, and so what we're doing is so I made it explicit that the commission will not turn away and the staff will not turn away those sorts of would be IPOs if they have a bylaw With either of those two provisions.”

“That's our goal is to come out with rules that differentiate between what's the stock, Security, and what is a commodity where the CFTC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, can oversee. So meme coins and all that, and stable coins, those are not for the…”

“There was a company that we fired that had billed us two hundred million dollars, not a single usable line of code”

“We're gonna actively and aggressively stop paying Medicaid if we can prove that states are not obliging their fiduciary responsibility to the American people.”

“Just LA County alone, just in hospice and home health care, we believe it's about three and a half billion dollars.”

“We've audited him now. This data's coming out this week. We have now found over one and a half billion dollars of money spent wrongly. We've audited it. They're not even arguing. One and a half billion dollars from that California charged the federal governmen…”

“The Biden administration really tried to unlawfully kill this industry in America”

“I think an AGI system would have to be able to do all of those things to really fulfill the original sort of goal of the AI field. And I think, you know, we're five to 10 years away from that.”

“The lowest cost place to put AI will be space. And that'll be true within two years. Maybe three. Three at the latest.”

“So that was in a single year of slightly over 12,000 Brits arrested for speech acts, and that is more than were arrested that year in Russia, more than in China, more than in Turkey.”

“The hardware is maxed out. We have no new technology. We can make it easier to manufacture and a little bit cheaper, but not faster. And we have maxed out on the additional features.”

“If, in America, I didn't think it was possible for a competitor to weaponize the government to come after you. And we saw that. It was unbelievable. It was you know, one of my engineers was set up to look like he was like a Chinese spy, and it was totally fake…”

“We did find that there was in the Biden administration approval to have the cells of Americans for CAR T therapy shipped to China where the Chinese did the gene editing and then shipped back to the United States. To infuse in Americans. When I found out about …”

“We no longer sell to customers who won't buy the AI products.”

“This is, what I'm starting to learn is basically what people are calling gyno-fascism, which is way too many women in positions of power with an eye on safety.”

“So probably of the unicorn class, I would bet that maybe five percent will ever be able to go public.”

“I think it's Clubhouse of our era. And so they have brilliant channel market fit, which is they crush it on Twitter for very specific clips. When you look at any of their view rates, very little. When you look at their retention on engagement rates, fuck all.”

“And then you have the tariffs are five hundred billion a year now, and they will grow over time to a trillion a year”

“They could be this quarter, as in the first quarter, so then I'd say, well, you have to come back and see me when it's through five, but then you'll come back in a couple of months, and then you'd say, Howard, I just spoke to you for an hour. I don't, you know…”

“And then if they cut rates, and that's the thing, I need a new Fed chair who cuts rates, and if they cut rates... You'll see sixes.”

“This is, you know, let's face it, Deep Seek was probably the single most important paper that most Silicon Valley researchers read from in the last couple years.”

“There's, you know, a much better funded company incubated by ABC called Chaos Industries, which I personally think has worse technology, but they're doing a lot better because they've productized this, they're very good at selling it, they're very good at mark…”

“Don't use things like we're a family. I treat you like my family. Okay. Which is like a little bit true, but not true enough. And instead we're a professional sports team and we all got to fight every year to keep our position. Because if we can upgrade, we mu…”

“If you have a gun pointed to your head today, would you have done more? If the answer is yes, that means you're not doing a good job.”