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“Allegedly they have just recently obtained nuclear weapons.”

“There was an extremely large hack happening during the election called SolarWinds, which my company was deeply involved in investigating and remediating, and there are other cyber experts that disagree with me, but I personally believe that SolarWinds could ha…”

“Harvard last year implemented their first ever remedial math because there are people coming in that don't know algebra because they dropped the admission standards.”

“The modern paradigm of DEI is toxic, woke ideology that is literally cancer for society.”

“100%.”

“Like the cartels in Colombia and Venezuela basically report into Iran. Iran handles most of the money laundering for them and coordination processing of a lot of like the precursor chemicals, stuff like that.”

“If you want to go the path of removing nuclear weapons from Iran, then we're at the point now where there has to be war.”

“I don't think that Trump did much more to incite the January six insurrection than what Hillary did of denying the election results.”

“The BLM riots were, and like anything that Antifa does is way more extreme than what the far right has done seriously.”

“And the definition of equity Or like the widely accepted definition is, is not creating equal opportunities. It's to have equal outcomes. That is insane. Like the idea that, that like, no matter what someone's work ethic is, or no matter like what their talent…”

“A Persian Jewish dentist who my family knows in San Diego was literally stabbed to death by a former patient named Mohammed, like just randomly, like it was not reported and it was not reported as a hate crime, et cetera.”

“So I actually think that the thing that's in Ukraine's interest is to have a ceasefire and unfortunately seed some of the Eastern territory You know, and, but have some, there needs to be some security guarantee with teeth that is not NATO, but it's something …”

“The public doesn't yet Like, the public hasn't yet gotten to see the full argument, like, hasn't gotten to see the math, but I'll just say, like, I think the math is really compelling, and I think data centers in space are, and I was on TBPN maybe six months a…”

“I think we've definitely hit the point where in most fields of math or physics or computer science, like the best models are better than the average PhD student at like a top five research program”

“It's much easier to concentrate talent in Israel than it is as like a Stanford spin out.”

“I think dual use is kind of a mirage. Like it's, It can be great, but I think you have to, I think we're entering an era where investors are okay with Just government sale companies. Single use.”

“Almost all long-range data movements in the future is gonna be done via Starlink, in my opinion. I think Starlink has, like, a 10 X plus cost advantage per gigabyte for long-haul data transmission compared to, say, putting a fiber optic cable line under the oc…”

“I am now at the point where I actually, I really believe that Mars is going to Be like one of the biggest profit generating endeavors in history, and not necessarily, not like from the direct Like building a city on Mars, but from all the indirect things”

“From my perspective, Saudi Arabia, despite what the media says, Saudi Arabia has been modernizing at an unbelievable rate. I'm personally a big fan of MBS. I think he's been a fantastic reformer.”

“If you look at what actually happened, I think that Trump was the best president in the modern era. At dealing with Russia, the best at dealing with Iran, the best at dealing with China.”

“From an Iranian perspective, if they knew that Kamala Harris was going to win, then they will happily wait six months for her to be in office and then go do whatever they want to do. If they think that Trump is going to win, then they need to do whatever they …”

“But I think a, candidly, I think a, Big factor in that is just how much better the Democrats are at the kind of mail-in ballot, ballot harvesting groundwork. Like, I think that will be the dominant variable in the selection by far.”

“Many, many different people tried to get me fired in many different ways.”

“In my Sequoia inbox, the last 12 hours probably 20 Like climate people have emailed most Sequoia partners saying that like Doug Leone is problematic for supporting Trump and that Trump has anti-climate positions and they don't know how they can support, like h…”

“There is a venture fund that I know very well. It is not Sequoia that, For a period of time had a policy that every investor was to boast to back at least one female founder per year.”

“With the transgender stuff, the things that, the issue that I think is really wrong is basically how we're handling transgender issues in schools, and the idea that, like, schools don't need to report to parents You know, if a twelve-year-old child says they'r…”

“You know, I've had dozens of death threats, some of which were pretty credible after October seven.”

“I think that over time, like in a war of production, the East will win. I think that China will just wildly outproduce munitions compared to the West.”

“I think Elon and the company have gained a lot of confidence that Starship is going to be flying like reliably and reusable this year in 20, 26. Like that's my strong sense.”

“Elon's the best in the world at atoms, and I think atoms are going to be a decisive factor in the AI race.”

“I just think XAI is gonna shock people with the scale that it gets to quickly.”

“I think the SpaceX IPO will actually help all private companies this year, including the AI companies, just because it creates a lot of liquidity, and it draws a lot of capital, you know, into tech, and, you know, people are gonna, like, it's, it will just cre…”

“I don't, I think that in most companies, it's kind of destroyed the culture. I don't think that's going to be the case at SpaceX because SpaceX is such a mission-oriented company, and as I was saying before, the next five years and then five years after that h…”

“I think this is, I really do think this is, I think this is the healthiest wealth creation event in history.”

“It's like, if you're a passive investor at the late stage, there's no alpha today in VC or very little, but that's just not the game we play.”

“Dissipating heat in space is insanely hard. And anyone that says they figured it out right now, like they have not figured it out.”

“I think SpaceX is going to do unbelievably well, and I am maximum bull on direct assault for SpaceX, but I think what happens, like, in the kind of most wild success scenario for SpaceX, SpaceX is providing, like, 20, 30% of the world's mobile data in a decade…”

“You need to solve this from the outside in. Like you can't, it, Microsoft can't solve this themselves. You have to have a solution that is kind of looking at all clouds and looking at the entire Industry, because people are multi-cloud, they work with multiple…”

“Only one or two of you a year are going to do that. And it's going to be like of new companies and it's really hard. and it takes both having great tech and great, you know, government BD. And so don't under invest it in either of those.”

“Elon has probably the biggest target on his back from a like regulatory perspective of anyone. And there's no one I'm aware of who takes like antitrust and all that more seriously than him.”

“I don't think we had freedom of speech before Elon bought Twitter.”

“It's a war in Ukraine where America could not have botched the initial response more.”

“I think the most real evil right now is probably the Iranian regime.”

“When Russia invaded Ukraine for the first year or so, a lot of the munitions were coming from Iran, and anyways, it's, you know, when America was fighting in Afghanistan, Iran was, like, deeply supporting the Taliban.”

“For the US specifically, I think that the Obama administration, and then now, like, carry, reinvigorated by the Biden-Harris administration, They've had literally the worst possible Iran policy, which has been appeasement, believing that they can, like, turn I…”

“Since October seventh, Iran has carried out, Iranian proxies have carried out over 300 attacks against U.S. Soldiers you know, on U.S. Bases or ships in the region. Like, directly attacked U.S. Interests over 300 times, and despite that, the U.S. Is still rele…”

“You know, I wrote this long ex post eight years ago. I was incredibly afraid of Trump and, you know, voted for Hillary and donated to Hillary. And four years ago, I didn't vote because I didn't like either option.”

“I try to really pay attention to what's happening, like to what people actually say and from first principles and all this, but even I had never seen the full clip of what he said in Charlottesville until about four months ago or so. And I tweeted about this, …”