Assertion Supported
Solana: San Francisco Tax Dollars Fund Activists Who Shut Down Bay Bridge
“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.”
Opinion
Solana: Shared Ideology Created a Decentralized Censorship Regime in 2020-2021
“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…”
Opinion
Solana: Governments should stop funding nonprofits and directly manage homelessness
“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…”
Opinion
Solana: Ackman's Thoughtless Donations Had Negative Cultural Downstream Effects
“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.…”
Opinion
Solana: DEI Frameworks Must Be Completely Torn Out
“The whole thing needs to be torn out, and we have to focus on what people actually are producing in the world.”
Opinion
Solana: If Garry Tan's reform movement fails, San Francisco cannot be saved
“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 …”
Opinion
Solana: There is as much antisemitism on the right as the left
“Where you see, I see just as much anti-Semitism from the right as the left.”
Opinion
Solana: Biden infrastructure bill lacks viable plans to build physical infrastructure
“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 …”
Opinion
Solana: Abandoning San Francisco is foolish because municipal rot will spread elsewhere
“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…”
Opinion
Solana: Musk's Control of X Is the Main Check on Censorship, But Dangerous
“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.”
Opinion
Solana: Gmail Is a Huge Long-Term Risk in the US
“Yeah, no, I think longterm Gmail is a huge risk in the country.”
Insight
Solana: Chasing Ad Traffic Homogenized Digital Media and Destroyed Trust
“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…”
Assertion Supported
Solana: About half of SF homelessness budget subsidizes housing
“Most of the money spent on homelessness half of it, about half of it goes to basically subsidizing housing for people.”
Insight
Solana: Fixing political rot requires funding small local races, not shortcuts
“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…”
Disclosure
Solana: Solo Writing Generated $150K Annually Before Pirate Wires Expansion
“It's like, we're talking before I built it into PirateWires, it was like generating like a 150,000 dollars a year.”
Assertion Supported
Solana: Scott Nolan and I distilled Thiel's Stanford class into 'Zero to One'
“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…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Solana: Pirate Wires Reached 65,000 Subscribers Before Focusing on Growth
“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.”
