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“Taxpayers in San Francisco are being forced to fund organizations that, for example, are shutting down the Bay Bridge. That's just crazy, and nobody knew that until we went and Filed an information request and was like, they're getting paid by the city.”

“I think the bigger problem is the culture was completely captured by one ideology. So everybody who runs, who ran the social media platforms, who worked in academia, who worked in government, not just elected officials, but the people who run Washington DC, ev…”

“So the government should not be funding non-profits. Let's just start there. That you can't, the government, if the government's job is to solve the problem of homelessness, only someone in the government can be charged with that, can be given the budget, ther…”

“Lots of posters on X are happy to point out where his money has gone and it's in like very stupid Places. Historically, and that's because, it's not because he's a bad person. I think it's because he's too rich, and he's not, There's no such thing as too rich.…”

“The whole thing needs to be torn out, and we have to focus on what people actually are producing in the world.”

“And I think after this, I, for me, if this thing, whatever's happening now, this nascent sort of the Gary Tan movement fails, then that's, there's nothing left there, but I think that this is, we've, I have never, and I've lived there, I, or I guess I live in …”

“Where you see, I see just as much anti-Semitism from the right as the left.”

“I looked at it, and what I found Was almost none of it went to, not only was it not, famously at the time there was a joke of, is this infrastructure? Is this infrastructure? Is it like DEI? Is that infrastructure? Because they had tons of money earmarked for …”

“San Francisco doesn't just belong to San Francisco. It belongs to the United States, and it's a very important asset. And also, one thing I never understand about the exit people is like, where do you think it's going next? You think that the rot is going to s…”

“Really Elon is the big thing that's keeping that from persisting. But that is not enough. Like that he's not, he's one person, his opinions could change. Like it's, it is really dangerous.”

“Yeah, no, I think longterm Gmail is a huge risk in the country.”

“That, that led inevitably to everybody who was writing, trying to sort of fish for that traffic to sounding totally identical in the first place. And being completely bombastic in the second, and it eroded trust. So you have now nobody trusting you, and also y…”

“Most of the money spent on homelessness half of it, about half of it goes to basically subsidizing housing for people.”

“On the politics side, what has to be done is you have to be, there's no special, like, death star to the rot. Like, you have to replace it, and that means funding Small, annoying races that seem trivial, but aren't. You have to find the candidates. You have to…”

“It's like, we're talking before I built it into PirateWires, it was like generating like a 150,000 dollars a year.”

“Scott, Scott Nolan and I at Founders Fund, we, he had just started around that time as well, it was like, 13 years ago. We came on to build out his class at Stanford, called CS-Intyre, that would ultimately become his book, Zero to one. So all of that informat…”

“Yeah, we're up to 65,000. To be honest, we haven't really focused on growth at all. We've been focusing on product until just now.”