Texas

“So in Texas, of course, we fund our vocational schools based on the success of their students. Salaries have gone up over a hundred percent.”

“You know, Texas just are setting up their own business courts to compete with Delaware.”

“Once you become a large employer in a state, like you actually end up existing sometimes for your own sake as a large employer. That's very powerful. This is why you have the really powerful healthcare interests and education interests. Like it's, you know, I …”

“There was intrastate deregulation of airlines in both California and Texas. Before we went to the national level, this was done at the state level, and national policy policymakers could see this is how this stuff is working, and they're, you know, they were a…”

“Forced transparency on that, and the big tech would hate it, and I think that's the right thing for Texas to do, so don't create a regulator, just like demand they do these things, you know?”

“When you have like general contractors bidding on you know, a project for Department of Transportation in Texas or Arizona or something like that. They're bidding, they're winning the project by maybe like one percent. And the contingencies are very heavy on l…”

“So Aurora, a company headquartered in California, but of course, you know, in, in modern regulatory environment, Where are we driving our first, you know, heavy duty trucks? Texas, right?”

“I think it's super entertaining that, you know, Waymo, which is you know, owned by Google, self-driving cars, it's very much a Bay Area company. But the place where they're doing the best and where they're going to have a massive business is Texas.”

“I don't think it's a race to the bottom, because after all, you have investors and others on the outside who are, Very discerning, and they decide, you know, after all, you know, what makes for a good company and what policies, ah, matter.”

“I think Texas will be first. I think California will eventually catch up.”

“One of the incredible things, like, as I talked about with Texas it's, it, Texas is one of the places that's super flexible. All you need is the permission of the landowner.”

“Like in Texas, we're short, 50,000 trades workers.”