federal government

“So I don't think it's the winner take all market. Because the government actually, there ends up being natural sort of monopolies, but the government's goal is not to have certain products effectively be monopolies.”

“But I think if you're an early stage company, that's not really targeting the The government is your first customer, federal. You know, in some way, then I think it's probably a mistake right now.”

“I feel like they're taking, you know, sort of a chainsaw, which is not unreasonable when you need a scalpel because it's just like the scalpel may take too long and the, you know, admin only has two years before like Congress potentially flips. And so it's pro…”

“Selling to local governments is incredibly difficult. I think it's basically just as hard as selling to federal government and except the upside is Significantly less.”

“Entitlements are the vast majority of the federal government's budget, and so, you know, if you want to go look at efficiencies, you're gonna have way more juice to squeeze, like, you know, improving Medicare than, like, you know, you can cut out all the DEI p…”

“So what we're seeing now is a lot of attempts and it's going to all go to court and there's going to be years of court battles of attempts to unwind and deregulate.”

“So there's 4.5 million cardholders in the federal government. There's only two point something million employees.”

“And so that's why I am advocating for way more regulatory scrutiny from the federal government for cloud seeding and weather mod ops.”

“At some level, when something gets sufficiently huge, whether or not they are on paper, the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort. As we've seen in various financial crises and insurance companies screwing things up. So, I guess, given the m…”

“You know, you're talking about a two hundred million dollar contract for a company that does ten billion in ARR, ah, this is two percent of revenue. In many ways, it's, ah, you know, a bump in the road.”