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Opinion
Enjeti: Zuckerberg, Pichai, and Bezos Political Flip-Flopping on Trump Is Cartoonish
“And so, in a weird way, I really respect the way that Tim Cook has handled the entire Trump era. It doesn't seem as dizzying as the Mark Zuckerberg, or the Sundar Pichai, or even Bezos. I mean, it's just cartoonish, you know, in my opinion, to see these people…”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 4:25 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Enjeti: A Future Democratic Administration Will Cancel Musk's Federal Contracts
“Yeah, if you're whoever, if you're Gavin Newsom administration, you're done. Like, it's, I'm gonna use the exact executive order precedent, and all of those contracts are getting canceled.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 15:44 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Enjeti: DeepSeek Model Cost Over $1 Billion to Train
“This idea that it's six million dollars or whatever to run is ludicrous. It obviously cost over a billion dollars to train the model before it eventually got to the point where it could run off of that six million.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 32:10 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Prediction Held up
Enjeti predicts Trump will win 2024 presidential election if not indicted
“Yes to run, win. If he doesn't get indicted, I think he'll probably win.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 47:09 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Opinion
Enjeti: Zuckerberg Is More Responsible for Feminized Corporate Culture Than Anyone
“And then he was talking about feminized corporate culture. I'm like, you are lit like outside of Sheryl, you are more responsible for that Than any individual in the United States.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 12:22 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Opinion
Enjeti: Sacks Is Silicon Valley's Most Powerful Washington Representative Ever
“So when you put all of that together, he really used his ability to both post his public profile and his past political experience to bring it together to be, in my opinion, one of the most powerful people we've ever seen in Washington, who is a representative…”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 25:38 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Enjeti: Government stimulus was the primary cause of US inflation
“I would dispute for it based on, from what I've seen, the stimulus was the major cause of inflation, but I think that's probably another conversation.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 5:24 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Opinion
Enjeti: Kari Lake's lack of conviction makes her more effective than Mastriano
“She's a star. She's a television personality and she genuinely believes nothing, which probably makes it easier. I think that Mastriano is a actual stop the steal true believer, which is frankly to his detriment in terms of prosecuting that case.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 17:29 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Opinion
Enjeti: Ukraine's economy and budget would collapse without US aid
“If tomorrow we cut off our aid from them, they would literally collapse in terms of their economy, their bonds, their budgets. Everything is American.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 34:17 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Prediction Held up
Enjeti predicts McCarthy will cave to establishment and pass Ukraine aid
“Kevin McCarthy has said that he won't pass any more aid to Ukraine. In my opinion, he will absolutely fall to the blob and will 100% do that.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 36:48 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Enjeti predicts Republicans will win exactly 53 Senate seats in 2022
“It's easy. 53 seats in the Senate for Republicans. I think they sweep and win every single contestable one, including the Nevada.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 42:21 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Opinion
Enjeti: Tech CEOs Align With Trump Purely for Business, Except Elon Musk
“Like, we can all understand that outside of Elon, the rest of them are doing this purely for Business purposes.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 1:45 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Insight
Enjeti: 22-Year-Olds Starting Their Careers Should Never Accept Remote Jobs
“So, I do think that's something, if you're 22 and you're starting out, my number one advice for you, do not take a remote.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 8:48 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Opinion
Enjeti: David Sacks is among America's most influential outside Ukraine voices
“And I would say he is probably one of the single most influential outside voices on the Ukraine conflict in all of the United States.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 25:19 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Opinion
Enjeti: Chamath and Other All-In Hosts Lack Sacks' Genuine Political Power
“I just think David is far more influential. Of course, Chamath and the rest of those guys, they went to the inaugural ceremony, and to the extent that those guys have, quote-unquote, an in, it's because they're, they have the popular podcast, but I would compa…”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 26:37 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Enjeti: Trump's Second Term Will Be Viewed as the AI Presidency
“I think that in the long term, we may view the Trump years at the second administration as the AI presidency in terms of the way that our economy and our life and all of that were transformed.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 28:24 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Enjeti: Autonomous driving will not be solved anytime soon
“On the one hand, you know, for years, everyone keeps telling me we're going to conquer driving, we're going to conquer driving. I'm like, no, you're not. It's just literally not going to happen anytime soon.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 40:45 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Opinion
Enjeti: Apple Intelligence is a complete bust and its summaries are garbage
“But Apple intelligence has been a complete bust. I'm an idiot for buying this phone. It's really, it's not different at all. AI, Apple AI summaries for my text messages are garbage. Literally less than useful.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 45:54 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Opinion
Enjeti: Apple has largely abandoned software development for the Vision Pro
“They haven't updated this thing at all guys. Like, for anybody out there, I can't even tell you how much they've just abandoned this thing completely, so if you don't like any of the day one stuff on it, do not get it, because they haven't, they've barely done…”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 51:30 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Opinion
Enjeti: Nobody Cares About the Inflation Reduction Act in Midterms
“Nobody cares about the inflation reduction act in this election. Sorry. Doesn't matter.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 14:34 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Opinion
Enjeti: Fed-driven demand destruction is the only fix for inflation
“At this point, I think demand destruction, which is the federal reserve's policy is the only thing that is going to quote unquote work. Because I don't think any plan, I don't think either party really has a political incentive to do exactly what I'm talking a…”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 23:32 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Enjeti: Biden administration will not ban TikTok due to youth backlash
“I don't think the Biden administration is the balls to ban it. I really just don't. I mean, everything that I've seen you know, they did the Huawei thing. That's cute. Everybody knows Huawei is a Chinese spy operation. I just don't think that they're willing t…”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 53:15 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Opinion
Enjeti: Investing in Mark Zuckerberg is one of the world's best business bets
“It's, yeah, I don't, I trust the guy. I mean, look, I'm putting aside my content, you know, anything. I'm just like, look, from a business perspective, one of the best bets in the world you could do is give Mark Zuckerberg your money in the year.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 1:02:38 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2030
Enjeti: US Will Enforce Much Tighter Export Controls on AI
“So we're going to see literal walls begin to go up, much tighter export control, a recognition that these companies and this technology is vital and of interest.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 31:42 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Insight
Enjeti: Never buy a hardware product based on promises of future software
“Don't ever buy a product with the promise of future product.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 45:03 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Insight
Enjeti: Vision Pro struggles because television viewing is fundamentally social
“The problem with the entire Vision Pro right now is that it's just a singular experience. It's only happening when I'm by myself. And TV is actually way more social than people think.”
Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 53:24 Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Enjeti predicts Elon Musk will keep Chinese state media labels on Twitter
“And so, on the Chinese thing, I just think it would be so insane for him to remove those labels that he, I don't think that he would do that.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 51:16 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Opinion
Enjeti: Bob Iger made a great call passing on Twitter
“This is why Bob Iger did not buy Twitter. And I think he made one of the great calls of all time. And he was like, you know what? I don't want to deal with this shit. And he was right.”
Saagar Enjeti Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 51:41 Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
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