U.S. Government

“The current position of the US government is basically that Coinbase shouldn't exist. I mean, if you look at the breadth, the number of businesses that it's arguing are operating illegally is numerous.”

“I think saying ban TikTok, that's a thing that like candidly might be marginally better, but you'll never get done.”

“My favorite. Interview tidbit with Elon last week that I saw was that it took them more time to get the approval to do the launch of the rocket that they launched last week than it took them to actually build the rocket. So they built a, whatever, a 20, 25 sto…”

“There's this hack where some Goldman Sachs guys got cabinet positions and they're like, well, the reason they did that or like at some level of seniority of the government is because you are forced to sell, but you don't have to pay taxes on the sale. And so i…”

“The current position of the US government is basically that Coinbase shouldn't exist. I mean, if you look at the breadth, the number of businesses that it's arguing are operating illegally is numerous.”

“Putting him in charge of just cutting everything willy nilly, even if there are many places in government, which I think a lot of people would agree need to be cut. And certainly there have been people advocating, you know, getting into the deep bureaucracy. W…”

“The H 200, Trump allowed it to be sold to China, but there's this big question of will Chinese companies buy it? He, of course, is gonna, the US government is gonna take a percentage of the sales.”

“No, because I don't like why is like kind of the upshot, you know, it's like, it's not like I don't understand the rationale for doing it in them and not in other things, if that makes sense. There's lots of critical infrastructure.”

“But it is also, like, one of those things where, like, the only way we do this is for distressed situations. It's crazy for us to not do this, so they're distressed. They're distressed.”