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Barnard: 40% of US Carbon Emissions Come From Homes
“What people don't know is 40% of all carbon emissions in the United States come from the home.”
Barnard: Three billion people worldwide lack access to electricity
“Three billion people don't have access to electricity.”
Sprowls: Florida House Unanimously Passed Canadian Drug Importation Despite Pharma Attacks
“You know, the pharmaceutical companies came in hot and heavy because we wanted to open up markets in Canada to importation of drugs, right? They were blasting us on, on TV, Wall Street, going after us all over the place. But basically they attacked us, and the…”
Reeser: Six of TSTC's top seven executives have corporate backgrounds
“If you look at the executive team at TSTC of the top seven executives that we have. Six of them came out of corporate America.”
Marr: Epirus demonstrated an EMP weapon outputting gigawatts of power
“One of our first field demos, we showed off our electromagnetic pulse weapon. We're putting out gigawatts of power”
Marr: Epirus invented chips capable of handling up to 2,000 volts
“So what we've invented is a gallium nitride chips and a silicon carbide chips. These new chips That can handle 1200 volts, 2000 volts. So we've digitized.”
Findley: DeFi protocols offer 9% to 11% yields on Ethereum lending
“I've seen a couple really interesting protocols where, like, I can make nine, 10, 11% of my money lending out Ethereum.”
Kimbal Musk: Tesla is first new American carmaker in 100 years
“I think that what I love about Tesla is it's really an American made company and it's in, in the car world, that's first time in a hundred years.”
Emil Michael: Office of Strategic Capital Loans Cost Treasuries Plus 100 Bps
“So it's a basically treasuries plus a hundred bips.”
Sandler: Ivan Boesky Was the Largest Equity Trader on the NYSE
“He was the largest really purchaser and seller of equities on New York Stock Exchange, larger than any institution at the time.”
Fry: Gallup ranks small business as America's most trusted institution
“Gallup runs a poll every year on the top institutions that Americans trust. Small business has been number one since the poll started. It is 44% higher than Congress, obviously. It's also 22% higher than the healthcare system and it is remain number one.”
Loeffler: SBA's 8(a) Program Represents $40B in Annual Contracting
“Let's, let's be clear, it's forty billion dollars worth of annual contracting.”
Abbott: US has 40,000 to 50,000 freight brokerages
“There's 40, 50,000 trucking brokerages in America.”
Sofman: Anki's $150 Product Once Resold for $1,000 on eBay
“I remember one year we were the number one selling product on eBay, and the 150 dollar product was going for a thousand on eBay.”
Gil: Google used to maintain a webpage of things it would never do
“Google used to have this web page up that was like, here's all the things we're never going to do. And I said, we're never going to do IM or chat. We're never going to do a browser. We're never going to end up doing all those things, right? We're never going t…”
Lowery: FPV drones require direct impact, making short-range microwave defenses effective
“What happens is, is a first person viewer drone with what they call a contact charge needs to drive that first person view drone all the way into impact. Cause how the contact charge works is it hits the armor And then a little spike shoots through the armor, …”
Gerstner: Annual US Corporate 401(k) Matching Equals $75 Billion
“The four or one K match in this country, the corporate contribution annually is seventy five billion dollars.”
Rauch: Most cloud workloads in the world are in Virginia
“Virginia is where most of the cloud workloads in the world are.”
Mintz: 8,000 People Die in Truck-Related Accidents Annually
“I mean, we have 8000 people that die in truck related accidents every year, and it's just, it's unnecessary, and it's wasteful.”
Applbaum: Israel is one of the world's largest net water exporters
“Today, Israel is one of the net largest exporters of water in the world.”
Caliri: US Opioid Overdose Deaths Growing Over 30% Year-Over-Year
“And in fact, if you look at the most recent data, we're still seeing 30, 30 plus percent year-over-year growth in opioid overdose deaths.”
Philips Velo and Nino were the first devices to support Audible
“And at Philips, I was doing the Philips Velo and Philips Nino. We were the first devices to Ever have audible on them.”
Lonsdale: Just over 50% of US public high schools offer multiple CS classes
“Just over 50% of public high schools nationwide offer over one class. My friend runs code.org, sorry, offer more than one computer science class.”
Barnard: Residential Battery Attachment Rate Jumped to 25%
“I mean, the battery storage attachment rates increased significantly over the course of the last couple of years. It used to be two or three percent. Now it's like 25%.”
Jones: NFL Careers Extended to Five Years Due to Contact Rules
“And now, now it's five years, because you're not allowed to get touched, right?”
Kloberdanz: OneHope will sell over 2.5 million wine bottles this year
“We're going to sell over two and a half million bottles.”
Chan: Early Gmail invitations were selling for up to $2,000 on eBay
“Some of these invites, I remember, were selling for one or 2000 dollars off eBay for people to get on this Gmail service, because they wanted their two gigabytes of, like, email, right?”
Brooks: Happiness and unhappiness are processed in different prefrontal hemispheres
“Happiness and unhappiness are, as cognitions are processed in different hemispheres of the prefrontal cortex. Literally, a different part of your brain is lighting up when you're having unhappy feelings as opposed to happy feelings.”
Luckey: NASA Conceived Real-Time VR Lens Correction in the 1960s
“People had come up with this at NASA, literally in the sixties and seventies, but the computational power hadn't existed, and the idea was just forgotten.”
Lonsdale: Oklahoma is the only state where every county backed Trump
“I think you're the only state where every one of your counties voted for President Trump.”