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“Yeah, it's 1200 dollars a month. It's a hundred dollars a month in Mexico, so the American health system is causing a 90% markup.”

“Our bits, as they flow out of our internet companies, literally hit a brick wall when they get to the Chinese border. And yet Chinese internet companies can, you know, develop enormously huge market caps and monopolies and technologies inside of Chinese border…”

“These guys are already planned, you know, many years out in terms of their fab construction, right? To like be moving along these fab timelines, right? Like the semiconductor industry is one of the most competitive, fastest moving, absolute most execution orie…”

“China is a net capital exporter, right? Like, to the point here, like, you know, they send us far more capital than we send them.”

“I'm more, more for TikTok ban. I think that there's a lot of data and facial recognition and all kinds of technologies that China's potentially building upon without, you know, real knowledge and consent. And I also just think it's terrible for mental health”

“I think we should have if not banned, like severely you know reduced TikTok's ability to influence the American audience a long time ago.”

“Day 623 of the U.S. Letting a huge national security threat sit inside our borders, which is insane, right? Like, it's like ridiculous that TikTok is allowed to be in the U.S. Given its current control structure. And kind of the geopolitical situation.”

“There's just no chance that in that environment they're gonna, like, risk any youth vote, even if they're terrible, woke people, for the sake of banning TikTok right now. And I think that sucks, because I think it is a huge national security risk, But I think …”

“They've actually banned TikTok usage longer than a certain number of minutes per day. They've also Banned the algorithm. They've like changed the algorithms that only pumps, you know, science and engineering and STEM related content to their kids. And yet they…”

“This is probably going to have some pretty wild and potentially bad knock-on effects globally. Just slight ones, because I think a lot of countries are like, wait a minute. All the social media is American. How do we feel about, if America doesn't like TikTok …”

“If this happens, I think most people in the country are going to have no idea why it happened. And it will kind of cause a lot of havoc, which is unclear politically what effect that will have, at least inside the United States.”

“This is, like, such an obvious national security threat.”

“Eventually, we'll get back to another globalization period, hopefully, in history, but for the next 20 to 30 years of our career, I just expect it to be highly fractionalized, and I think that really puts extra pressure on the US needing to grow its population…”

“Yeah, she's been successful in completely stopping the innovation cycle in the United States so that nobody can get acquired.”

“I do kind of believe that current course in speed leads us away from healthy, pure capitalism, right? And into a place where people don't really trust the rules. There's a lot of random outcomes. They don't want to work that hard because they don't really unde…”

“Like we are leading in AI. We're leading in biotech. We're leading in transportation in, in most categories. We have the chance to lead in, in energy in most areas. We're leading in space. So you kind of look at all of these areas where we're clearly in front …”

“If we ban tick tock, which by the way, I've been on record for 18 months saying is a completely obvious thing to do. The one on one version is that's good for same. Dave Morin: Couldn't agree more. Sam Lessin: The one on one version is good for Facebook becaus…”

“We cannot export Digital into China at all, right? Like our bits do not flow through their firewall. Like, you know, most of our companies cannot operate there and the inverse is not true, right? Like you bite dance, you name it. Like all of the Chinese compan…”

“Every consequential company of this new technology is in the United States. We are the unequivocal leader in this.”

“Tick tock will operate in some form in the U S in a partnership. Either with Larry Ellison or Elon Musk. It's my prediction.”

“The information reported last night that TikTok will pull it for US users if that day comes.”

“At the same time, DJI, like today, announced the drone company that they're no longer limiting drones, like, from flying in restricted airspace in the United States, which I'm sure is actually unrelated, but it's a hilarious story.”

“I think it's pretty reasonable that some countries turn around and say, well, wait a minute. You guys don't want TikTok. We don't want Facebook. That's an American thing, right?”

“I've said for years that this is like the number one unforced national security history issue, probably in history.”

“And for what it's worth, I do believe you, the thing I think you can fire all the customer service people. The only miscalculation is those people do not work in the US. You're going to fire all the people in Indonesia.”

“Like the world is so big that if this, everybody wants us dollars and if the programmable us dollar is tether or circle or whatever, they'll use it. And then us has no choice but to accept them because the economy is so big right now. The global economy is so …”

“From a national security and, like, identity standpoint, all this type of stuff, I think it's still, like, structurally a ridiculous risk, right? Like, you know, basically, like, it's never made, it's, it is a huge national security hole.”

“What allows the U S to beat some of the more industrialized, like better manufacturing nations over the next 10 years, our capital markets are the best in the world, right? Does our industrial capacity match engine? No chance, but our capital markets are incre…”

“It's also completely true that the U.S. And China are, one is not gonna best the other in this war. I just don't, I, there's just no doubt.”

“We need AI to have any prayer of hitting, you know, the GDP we need to hit, to deal with the debt problem, which I think is like kind of the biggest narrative going on.”

“They're going to have access to lower cost energy. Like there there's like under no metric, whether it's number of solar panels, number of nuclear power plants, like they are going to have the cheaper energy based on how things are going right now.”

“They can put up a nuclear plant and like something like, what is it? Like nine months. It takes us six years.”

“And like everyone's perspective on AI is quite positive here versus in the U S it's like so negative, you know, AI is less popular than ice in the U S like all kinds of terrible things. And in Japan, they're just like, oh yeah, like it seems it's fine. Like ob…”

“I think that Europe is fucked, and there are bright lights of amazing entrepreneurs that are doing the very thing that Europe has historically not done, which is risk taking. The floor for Europe is higher than the US, so people do not fall through that, but t…”