U.S. government

“We should not allow institutions, software institutions, to sell to our adversaries, but not sell to the US government.”

“The U S government should have a policy where a small percent of all, especially the DOD, a small percent of its spend has to go to products built in the software built in the United States. That is a product that has been proven both on the battlefield and ha…”

“As long as China's a big enough threat, it will be sufficient to kind of glue us together to be able to actually make some rational decisions as a society. You know, maybe the presence of an external enemy is actually helpful to kind of galvanize, you know, ki…”

“And so, you know, institutions keep raising tuition, and the government just keeps financing more student loans. And that's why we're at one point, about 1.8 trillion in student loan debt at this point.”

“What I saw with my own eyes was that a sort of cultural subversion within big tech more broadly was stopping a big tech from working with the government, right? Like basically ideologies that sort of were very pervasive within the middle layers of the organiza…”

“TSMC now that manufactures both advanced and foundational chips is considering getting out of the foundational chips business entirely because U.S. Government is creating this nice monopoly for them in advance.”

“You can argue that the U.S. Government is the most over-leveraged An under-managed situation that we have, especially then it was.”

“The other thing is, while our government has a lot of misfunctions, and you read a lot about it in the book, It still functions better than any other government that I've seen.”

“And so I knew everything the government was saying about energy was wrong. You know, we were never going to produce more fossil fuel. It was absurd.”

“Turns out we bought them a shipping container full of laptops. And he's like, the issue is we don't read and write. This is the type of stuff that was going on all over the place. It's actually good intentions, just preposterous executions.”

“Between 2019 and 20 24, so over that five year period, The U S government has about tripled the number of satellites that they've launched that are government owned. So they've gone from a pretty low number or like call it about 50 or so to now about a 150 or …”

“The reason they're not able to launch more than let's say about a 150 satellites last year in 2024 is fundamentally nobody is able to manufacture the platforms fast enough.”

“And I look at how many satellites the US government was able to launch last year, not how many they wanted to, but they were only able to launch, according to the data that we've been able to pull, a 146.”

“Palantir and Roland, SpaceX, all had to sue the government for the first big contract, because the primes were sophisticated at selling, sophisticated protecting their interests.”