Straight Answers

“Do you think it's actually being used for psyops?”

answered: “to target one app is a huge mistake. And my, I have a very simple solution.”

“You just said that the blockchain couldn't be changed and that all the facts were permanent. So why does it depend now?”

answered: “edge cases are always used to attack something”

“Can I ask, how did that whole MSG, um, thing come about for the Trump campaign? Because I remember when they asked me to help, and I just threw a dinner, and when you did it, you, you know, delivered a killer set that almost, like, burned the campaign down, but, um.”

answered: “Fake news. 20% Puerto Rican increase in the state of Pennsylvania.”

“Cause you guys just signed a huge licensing deal. Maybe you want to tell folks the size of it, but how did you bid people against each other and what were the different things that different folks wanted?”

answered: “the beautiful thing about us is with the amount of content we do”

“How would you, now that you've got this great book and a great track record, obviously, Profile in Courage, how would you make the decision to run yourself in twenty-twenty? Walk us through both.”

answered: “I begged the Democratic Party to have a mini primary, thirty-day primary”

“you have a sense, Keller, are you going to beat the unit cost to deliver with delivery drivers today, and by how much can you give us a sense on, if I want Chipotle, why would I go to the Zipline ordering system, or use Chipotle's app and have Zipline kind of fulfill for me? What's the cost difference going to be percentage-wise, do you think, over traditional food delivery?”

answered: “instead of using a 4000 pound gas combustion vehicle driven by a human”

“So what does it mean she ceded? How did, what is that?”

answered: “There, there were a lot of different ways, um, that that occurred.”

“And it will be in a pill format soon, right? I mean, the pills are almost here.”

answered: “If you did the every, the every person's, um, kind of story around this journey.”

“And it will be in a pill format soon, right? I mean, the pills are almost here.”

answered: “if you did the every, the every person's, um, kind of story around this journey”

“So can you, can you walk us through like what, what is the mechanics now? Like what will it be like when you, when Senator Thune brings you together, you all caucus or how does this work now for you?”

answered: “by and large a charade, ok? Somebody else is going to write this thing”

“What are your thoughts? Or should he?”

answered: “one of the best part, um, being an investor of venture capital is”

“Is there a moment, guys, where, is it a regulatory event where you'll say the Visa MasterCard duopoly can get challenged? Is there a set of boundary conditions that you have written down where, when you can check a few of these boxes, you know that it's time for those companies to get dismantled?”

answered: “A lot of the interesting stuff we see is happening internationally.”

“And then second, do you think that there's a chance, like a meaningful chance that the government tries to break Google up? Or do you think it looks something maybe more similar to what happened to Microsoft?”

answered: “mandating breakups is only when essentially capitalism is failing”

“And how much the party matters in this process for you?”

answered: “I don't know that they're gonna. I mean, it was kind of traumatic what happened”

“Can you narrow that down? I guess where, where are you in the release of GPT-V?”

answered: “we take our time on Releases of major new models”

“Where's it all going? And help just frame for the audience, for everyone, like, how do you think about where you're going?”

answered: “YouTube is just, Massive. I mean, billions of people use it”

“But, you know, somebody CalPERS or Harvard has two Has the same share class in two different funds at two different prices. So then you could really triangulate on reality, huh?”

answered: “Another dynamic that, uh, that makes the powder less, less dry that, that I didn't mention”

“What is the vital national interest in the United States that compels us to be in a war, admittedly through a proxy, with Russia that has 6000 nuclear weapons? Even if I were to grant that we should be trying to, out of humanitarian motives, expel the Russians, From Ukraine, do you believe that we should be trying to destabilize and topple Putin?”

answered: “Let me come to that with a question.”

“Um, but what are you going to do to bring back some balance between the branches of the government? Because this does not seem to be going in Um, the right direction for anybody but the people in this room, which is to say the top 10% of our society.”

answered: “if you, you referenced inflation is soaring. Well, just recently, that's primarily driven by energy”

“When did we get this presentation? Did we get it early enough to try to sell?”

answered: “I would not sell my stock to him for a second, and the reason is”

“And if we funded that, what does that make you think about our government? And then Fauci covering it up, if that is in fact true, what does that make you think about our government?”

answered: “Uh, the Fauci thing is an interesting phenomena. Uh, he's a much, I was not”

“Who can take that deregulatory action? Do you need Congress to get involved?”

answered: “I've got a great partner, Chris Wright, incredibly talented”

“What do you think is gonna happen in California?”

answered: “at some point, that's, it's just too weird.”

“But the DOJ, the DOJ sells these. So like, who do you think of the DOJs making the Bitcoin market decisions, and is that the right person to be monetizing these assets?”

answered: “David mentioned a point about security I just want to follow up on”

“Do you think it's like neurogenic neuroplasticity trauma resolution? I mean, what is the way that this is going to be allowed to become call it a medical therapeutic That can be more broadly trialed and then eventually figure out how to bring it to people without it being carrying all the risks and burdens that it does today.”

answered: “if I just subjectively compare my experience with five MEO”

“But just to focus on ICE, I mean, ICE's actions in Minnesota, where do you think ICE should be doing immigration enforcement and how versus what do you think they shouldn't have been doing?”

answered: “I like to think that my credentials on Board of Security as a Democrat is platinum”

“you have a sense, Keller, are you going to beat the unit cost to deliver with delivery drivers today, and by how much can you give us a sense on, if I want Chipotle, why would I go to the Zipline ordering system, or use Chipotle's app and have Zipline kind of fulfill for me? What's the cost difference going to be percentage-wise, do you think, over traditional food delivery?”

answered: “instead of using a 4000 pound gas combustion vehicle... you should use a A 50 pound vehicle”

“How do you look at this when you're a steward of capital? Public markets, private markets, and then just Yolo, just put it into, you know, some T-bills or, yeah, bonds or whatever.”

answered: “first let's just frame, right, the chart that you showed”

“What does this speak to for the future of both America's leadership with the, in the West, and this alliance that has kind of created a great power center that's created balance in the world? I mean, is NATO at risk?”

answered: “I don't, truly don't understand why they don't want to join us”

“Would you not certify the election? Would you have not certified the election?”

answered: “I think that what I would have done, I mean, look”

“So, and even the Deutsche Bank settlement, I don't think I'd heard of that. What, what was that?”

answered: “they set up a settlement model basically for the Epstein estate”

“Was it controversial, Mark, to make Slack headless? Was that a big decision, or was that a, was everybody kind of mostly on board with that?”

answered: “our apps are not hard-coded where we had to cut the top off of them”

“Do you think we have a path to fixing agriculture in this country? And how do we get farmers back on track where they can earn a living without requiring checks from the government?”

answered: “Farming is such a hard job. I absolutely revere American farms”

“And do you think there's a way to fix it without Congress, or is the only way to fix it without Congress? Meaning, there needs to be no Congress if we have a shot at fixing this, and there needs to be a different governing model.”

answered: “when he has the House and the Senate behind him”

“What's the timeline? And what are they telling you is happening on the ground today as we sit here?”

answered: “Under this tent, we have diverse groups that are joining in this national campaign.”

“You, you find it hard to find your tribe in Silicon Valley? Intellectually, has it become easier, harder, the same?”

answered: “I've just given up on, like, having even a tribe”

“What do you think, Mark? You're in favor of this?”

answered: “Yeah, I think more generally, I feel like since the pandemic”

“So what did you think when you saw that OpenAI started with a non-profit, not as one percent, but as a hundred percent, but then it became a for-profit. What did you think of that innovation?”

answered: “That other model, I don't really understand. I think we've proven our model.”

“Yeah, and you've initiated what could only be described as an unprecedented massive stock buyback mark, fifty billion?”

answered: “I would just say that You know, look, at a high level, look, there's awesome new capabilities.”

“I want to accumulate likes and views, and I think that, like, and I want to come back to this point about status that you made earlier, because, uh, and I want to kind of relate it to human history as well, because it's really important to understand where that, where that comes from, where does status as a desire come from?”

answered: “Let me just finish up the narration of Gen Z, and we'll go right to that.”

“And what's he like as a father-in-law? I'm curious.”

answered: “Uh, as a father-in-law, he's been great.”

“Do they go work in the private workforce and become productive? Or do you think they're getting subsumed by other government agencies, either state or local or government service providers to do work that fundamentally is not productive to growing the economy?”

answered: “I haven't studied the numbers. I, I don't think I can adequately answer that.”

“Market cap of eighty-five million didn't go well. Bill Gurley, is, uh, the IPO window opening, or are people kind of on the ledge who have no choice but to jump and hope for the best?”

answered: “One thing we didn't probably spend enough time on in the last topic”

“But Brian, to the question I asked before about the SEC and what should happen, you said, I want to pick up on what you said, which is the SEC doesn't seem motivated. Why is the SEC in your mind not motivated?”

answered: “It is a political issue at this point.”

“I saw that they just bought a lot of liquefied petroleum gas from the United States in November. What are the big sort of hot button places that you want?”

answered: “I'll tell you a story about, uh, India. So, um, if you remember”

“Are there other buyers emerging? And how does broader capital markets look to US debt in this moment?”

answered: “Back to Jason's question, why two percent? We've chosen two percent”

“Is that the steady state? Do you think over time?”

answered: “We definitely see that in, in, uh, in the clinic and in, in, in practice”

“How did that process go for you? How did you end up in this role?”

answered: “I love what I'm doing and I love the role, uh, because of course”

“Look at you, 29 in the White House, leading and working with David Sachs. This is a dream come true for you, huh?”

answered: “I'll make one more point before I jump off on, on the tether topic.”

“We're actually seeing maybe this strategy of less judgment, more engagement, actually result in more modernization. So what's your take on this?”

answered: “one of the things that's happened in the media coverage of President Trump's speech”

“It's basically like doing 200 of them at once. Ryan, uh, your thoughts here on AI first companies and agentic computing?”

answered: “the one that I really wanted to tie back to is actually our earlier conversation”

“How do you fight that? And I think-”

answered: “The central thing we are discussing is not whether there are sensible modifications to trade policy”

“Do you wonder if this could have been done in a more gradual or thoughtful way? What's your take on the execution here by the administration of these tariffs and their response to the markets?”

answered: “I defer to Larry on the markets. I'm more of a connoisseur of arguments”

“Is there any saving this party? And if so, what would it look like?”

answered: “Well, there's the problem of the party and the campaign. Let me bracket that.”

“What are we going to be cutting besides defense and, or are we going to be raising taxes to 70%, do you think? To kind of bridge this hole.”

answered: “I need to study more the issue about how to get back into a balanced budget”

“Do you believe there's a deep state conspiracy against Trump? Because you might be facing him.”

answered: “I don't use the word deep state.”

“How do you protect folks? But then how do you make sure that the costs don't become so exorbitant that it just kills the industry without you noticing?”

answered: “I don't really want to opine on, um, you know, the state of Unions”

“I mean, yeah, we'll call it. Yeah.”

answered: “Actually, I want to make a quick comment on, especially with this slide”

“Well, if you, if you think about what the IRA does for energy, and frankly, if you just roll up the BIL chips and IRA, I'm just curious your thoughts on whether government incentives are moving in that direction. That you actually support, or you still think it's, it's missing something?”

answered: “I don't believe that I can be in a position to promise what we would do legislatively”

“Is that the right move? Do you agree with Trump's ultimatum?”

answered: “Well, let me look at it from the domestic prism.”