United States

13 statements across 10 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jan 4, 2026 by John Mackey · said 177 times in 37 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Everything said about United States, oldest first

Jan 4, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Mackey: 74% of Americans Are Overweight and 43% Are Obese
“74% of Americans are overweight, and 43% are obese, and that has not peaked. It is still going up.”
John Mackey Jan 4, 2026 ▶ 4:29 John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
Mar 1, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Armstrong: US should create 10 federal special economic zones for frontier tech
“My ideal world, you'd have, like, 10 plots of land, like, take federal land in the U.S. And designate them as special zones. So you could have one that's, hey, this is, this, in this sandbox, you can iterate on nuclear reactor design. In this one little area, …”
Brian Armstrong Mar 1, 2026 ▶ 1:48:19 Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
Mar 1, 2026 negative
Opinion
Armstrong: Gensler and Warren unlawfully tried to kill US crypto
“And so it turns out in the past, this ambiguity about where crypto assets set, you know, sit between the two federal regulators, that lack of clarity was really weaponized and by Gary Gensler, the former SEC chair, and Elizabeth Warren and people like that who…”
Brian Armstrong Mar 1, 2026 ▶ 0:57 Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
Mar 1, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Armstrong: Crypto commodity vs security debate is uniquely American
“So in other countries where we operate, like in the UK or in Singapore, they only have one federal regulator for financial services. So they actually don't care whether these are commodities or securities. It's a totally parochial issue in the United States th…”
Brian Armstrong Mar 1, 2026 ▶ 1:14 Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
Mar 29, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Xu: Only 20k-25k of US restaurants delivered food in 2013
“Where there were about a million restaurants in the States, and maybe 20 to 25,000 of them offered deliveries.”
Tony Xu Mar 29, 2026 ▶ 2:01 Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
Apr 12, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Spiegel: Snap manufactures core AR components in its own US and UK facilities
“Yeah, people you know, I think would be stunned to learn that we manufacture core components in the U.S. And the U.K., right, in our own facilities, which allow us to do this really advanced R&D to push the boundaries of what's, you know, what's possible with …”
Evan Spiegel Apr 12, 2026 ▶ 1:02:32 Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
May 3, 2026
Assertion Supported
Foroughi: AppLovin reaches over 1B daily gamers globally and 150M US adults
“In our business on the, on one hand, we have billion users who are playing games, billion plus users who are playing games every single day around the world in the U S over a hundred and fifty million only adults.”
Adam Foroughi May 3, 2026 ▶ 1:22:28 Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
May 10, 2026 positive
Opinion
White: Billionaire Tax Revenue Is Essential to Keeping the Government Afloat
“Billionaires are very important to the ecosystem of the United States. You know what I mean? The amount of money these guys pay in taxes. How do you think everything stays afloat? How do you think the state comes up with the money to fix the roads and build th…”
Dana White May 10, 2026 ▶ 52:54 Dana White: The Man Behind the UFC
May 31, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Ivanka Trump: 40% of US produce is plowed under for cosmetic reasons
“Planet Harvest, which I co-founded with my good friend, Melissa Ackerman, that's helping find use for the 40% of fruits and vegetables we grow in this country every single year that don't even make it out of the field. They get plowed under because they don't …”
Ivanka Trump May 31, 2026 ▶ 55:07 Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
Jul 12, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Glyman: Ramp powers over 3% of US corporate card transactions
“Over three percent of all of the corporate card transactions in the United States are powered by ramp, and nearly one percent of all the corporate transactions are running through ramp.”
Eric Glyman Jul 12, 2026 ▶ 0:52 The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
Jul 12, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Glyman: Ramp customers grow revenue at 16% median annual rate
“The typical business that adopts Ramp is growing their revenue a median of 16% per year. The U.S. Average is three to four percent.”
Eric Glyman Jul 12, 2026 ▶ 1:12 The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
Aug 16, 2026 negative
Insight
Kalanick: Anti-competitive behavior is only legal if regulators do it for you
“Being anti-competitive is illegal in the United States, unless you get a government official or regulator to do it for you, then it's legal.”
Travis Kalanick Aug 16, 2026 ▶ 38:19 Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
Sep 6, 2026 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Dell: US electricity demand grew at inflation rate over 50 years
“Over the last 50 years, demand for electricity in the U.S. Has grown at basically the rate of inflation, so it has not really grown much.”
Zach Dell Sep 6, 2026 ▶ 2:58 Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
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