U.S. government

also referred to as: u s government · us government

24 statements across 17 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2024 by Jordi Hays · across every show →

Everything said about U.S. government, oldest first

Nov 14, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Hays: Musk's Political Push Stemmed from Disrespect and Business Scale
“He, everything we just saw over the past however many months was just a reaction to being disrespected. As A person as a businessman, and it was almost a, with his level of ambition, it was a, it was something that he needed to do to reach his full potential b…”
Jordi Hays Nov 14, 2024 ▶ 2:55:11 Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
Jan 25, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: High-Flyer Quant Stockpiled 10,000 Nvidia GPUs Before US Bans
“High Flyer Quant managed to buy more than 10,000 NVIDIA graphics processing units before the U.S. Government imposed the chip bans, according to a local media outlet.”
John Coogan Jan 25, 2025 ▶ 29:33 DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
Mar 8, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Tan: Albedo builds spy satellites superior to the US government
“Albedo is super hardcore because they basically have made spy satellites, but you know, they're better than what the U S government can do. And, you know, they might just replace replace that market for that.”
Garry Tan Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 11:24 Garry Tan talks the state of YC, the impact of AI, and the dawn of innovation.
Mar 24, 2025 negative
Insight
Continuing Resolutions Protect Defense Incumbents While Freezing Out New Startups
“Incumbents have their programs continuing to be funded, right? And so the, you know, Lockheed, Raytheon, et cetera, Northrop's, you know, might not be experiencing as much growth as usual, but, you know, they're, you know, they're generally, you know, continui…”
Delian Asparouhov Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 9:10 Delian Asparouhov on Stranded Astronauts, NASA in Crisis, and Corporate Espionage.
Mar 28, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Schneider: Huawei stockpiled AI chips made at TSMC using shell company
“Huawei was able to manufacture an enormous amount of chips at TSMC by basically creating a shell company, TSMC you know, deciding to look the other way about some Chinese firm manufacturing all these AI chips, and then the US government catching them and be li…”
Jordan Schneider Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 21:08 Jordan Schneider (ChinaTalk) On the US-China Power Struggle
Apr 1, 2025 bearish
Insight
Love: Selling pure software tools to government will not yield venture returns
“On the other end of the spectrum, you're not going to have big enough outcomes if you're just making another CRM to, or a software tool to apply to the government.”
Connor Love Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 14:38 Connor Love (Lightspeed) on Everything You Need to Know About Defense Startups
Apr 1, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Asparouhov: SpaceX and Palantir had to sue US government to win contracts
“Both SpaceX and Palantir In the 2010 through 12 time period. Basically to sue the government in order to win contracts.”
Delian Asparouhov Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 1:18 Delian Asparouhov on Defense Startups, NASA, Continuing Resolution and More
Apr 26, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ginn: GPU proliferation has reached escape velocity beyond US government control
“We think GPUs are gonna be everywhere and kind of has reached out escape velocity. There's not really much the U S government can do about it at this point.”
Aaron Ginn Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 1:52 Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
Apr 26, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Ginn: Building GPUs is easier than the US government thinks
“Building GPUs is actually much easier than the US government thinks, which is why it, which is why Amazon's doing it, Microsoft's doing it, Facebook's doing it, Broadcom's now a trillion dollar company, and the second is that their actual ability on the Foundr…”
Aaron Ginn Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 6:43 Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
May 4, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Glyman: One in six working Americans is employed by the government
“Between federal, state, local education. One of the most mind blowing stats that I learned is one in six Americans who work, work for the U S government.”
Eric Glyman May 4, 2025 ▶ 14:41 We Went to DC to Interview Tech's Power Players
May 31, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: DOGE Claims $175 Billion in Federal Savings Since Inauguration
“Doge said it had saved the government, one hundred and seventy-five billion from a combination of asset sales, contracts, lease, and grant cancellations, workforce reductions, and other moves made since January twentyth inauguration.”
John Coogan May 31, 2025 ▶ 8:10 Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
Aug 30, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Coogan: The US government is not equipped to run Intel
“I don't think the government's equipped to make the decision on how they should position against TSMC, where they fit in Apple Silicon versus TPU versus Tranium. Like, it just doesn't seem like government's set up to actually run this company more effectively …”
John Coogan Aug 30, 2025 ▶ 45:52 Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
Aug 30, 2025
Assertion Supported
U.S. government agreed to convert $8.9B in grants into 10% Intel stake
“Intel and the U.S. Soon agreed that the government would use 8.9 billion in grants that have been committed, but not paid to take a nearly 10% stake at a slight discount.”
Jordi Hays Aug 30, 2025 ▶ 33:39 Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
Aug 30, 2025 positive
Opinion
Tan: Intel doesn't need grants, welcomes US government as shareholder
“Agreement that we can work together, and then more important, I don't need the grant, but I really look forward to have the US government be my shareholder, and we can work together.”
Lip-Bu Tan Aug 30, 2025 ▶ 3:34 Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
Aug 30, 2025
Assertion Supported
Intel deal lets US government buy 5% more if manufacturing sells
“David Shapiro, a former partner on the Wall Street firm, Watchdoll, Lipton, and Rosen, and Katz drew up the terms, including a provision that the government could acquire another five percent of Intel at a discount if the company sells the majority of its manu…”
Jordi Hays Aug 30, 2025 ▶ 33:59 Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
Nov 7, 2025 neutral
Prediction Held up
Tyler Hogge predicts the US government will provide AI loan backstops
“But a backstop of loans, I would expect that to happen.”
Tyler Hogge Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 11:02 OpenAI Requesting Federal Backstop? | Diet TBPN
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Anthropic Clashed over Surveillance and Lethal Weapons Clauses Permitted to OpenAI
“So there were two main sticking points that they went back and forth on. No mass domestic surveillance, and no fully autonomous lethal weapons, and there's been a question as to why OpenAI was allowed to Include that language in their contract and say, like, h…”
John Coogan Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 10:04 FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Insight
Thompson: Intel Chose Commercial Scale Over Custom Government Chips
“And Bob Noyce made the decision that we will sell to the government, but we're not going to design chips for the government. And the distinction there was you had guaranteed orders, which was great. The government would take your IP, and there was, and in his …”
Ben Thompson Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 14:34 FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Thompson: Anthropic Commands SF Talent While OpenAI Aligns With America
“Anthropic has a local advantage in that most people, I think, in the industry are with them, and they have a national PR problem in that I think a lot of folks outside of tech don't understand why tech companies always try to Or resist helping the US governmen…”
Ben Thompson Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 28:26 FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Thompson: Sovereign Militaries Will Inevitably Seize Control of Frontier AI
“If AI is what it is, The people with guns are going to want to have a say. Whether that be domestically, whether that be internationally, that might be in the context of the U.S. Government just taking it, trying to kill your company because they feel you're n…”
Ben Thompson Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 8:00 FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Insight
Thompson: Government Cannot Afford Bespoke Frontier AI Due to CapEx Scale
“People, like, I was talking to someone, they're like, why doesn't the government just have, just get someone to make their own model? It's like, because it's, like, you talk about government contracts, we're, like, single digit billions. We're talking about fo…”
Ben Thompson Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 15:30 FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW
Mar 6, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Hays: Anthropic Officially Designated as a Federal Supply Chain Risk
“This also coincided with Anthropic, I guess, officially being designated as a supply chain risk”
Jordi Hays Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 25:52 Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
Jun 16, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: U.S. Export Controls Bar Foreign Nationals From Accessing Anthropic Models
“The US government is restricting both Fable Five and Mythos Five from being used by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the US, including foreign national Anthropic employees, and so that's a huge compliance burden, very sudden, and that led Anthro…”
John Coogan Jun 16, 2026 ▶ 6:32 Anthropic Drama, Meta Now Tokenminning, Fox's $22B Roku Deal | Diet TBPN
Jun 27, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Hays: GPT-5.6 access is restricted to 20 companies by US government
“Of course by US government directive, access is limited to only 20 pre-approved companies.”
Jordi Hays Jun 27, 2026 ▶ 22:04 Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
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