United States
also referred to as: u s · us
53 statements across 43 episodes · 13 bullish · 19 bearish · 35 people on the record · first statement Oct 22, 2020 by Sean Weisbrot · said 1,099 times in 189 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sean Weisbrot (569), Cenk Siddar (34), Ray Blakney (30), Dr. Devorah Grazer (22), Ishan Rakshit (17), Renan de Villiers (16), David Garcia Gonzalez (15), Brooke Shepherd (11)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 201 mentions in 45 episodes 4 per episode
- He Called Deal Making a Lie - Then Fell in Love With It
- Manufacture Where You Sell: Why It Took Him 5 Years to Listen
- 80% Growth During COVID Came From the Brands Everyone Else Ignored
- Why Half of Them Have No Mortgage and Still Win
- Founder Market Fit Got Them $4.2M Before a Product Existed
- Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
- Your Business Isn't Stagnating, Your Mindset Is (Live Coaching)
- Count On Other People Being Lazier Than You
- 37 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 164 mentions in 28 episodes 6 per episode
- Finland Aims for an 8, Not a 10, and That Changes Everything
- Lights Out Factories: When the Goal Is No Humans Inside
- His SWAG Method Turns Wild Guesses Into Quarterly Wins
- 137 Countries Taught Him Why Users Do What You Want
- He Built a $100M Company and Says You Are Already Wrong Right Now
- Imitate Before You Innovate: The Phrase Behind a 950-Store Empire
- 4,000 Mistakes in Weeks Made It Look Like an Overnight Success
- He Lost 76% of His Traffic and Refused to Let a Single Person Go
- 20 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 229 mentions in 42 episodes 5 per episode
- He Joined VC With No Plan to Stay - Here Is What He Was Really After
- Your Kids Signed Contracts With No Expiration Date and No Way Out
- 10,000 Investor Meetings Later, He Saw One Same-Day Commitment
- A Swedish Founder Saw What Mexican Banks Missed in Their Own Data
- 3,000 Client Q&As Fed Into One Bot That Answers Like Him
- Every New Level Has a New Devil - He Proved It From $5M to $75M
- How a Cookie Invented in 94 Became the Monster Behind Your Data
- His Six-Month Relationship Contract Actually Works
- 34 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 184 mentions in 33 episodes 6 per episode
- $500K Profit With Time for Family Beats $1M and Misery
- Estonia Has No Income Tax for Companies - If You Never Declare a Profit
- They Showed Up to Inspect a Factory That Did Not Exist Yet
- He Closed the Paper the Same Month He Buried His Wife
- Turn Your Customers Into Investors Before You Ever Talk to a VC
- Webflow Calls Itself No-Code But Here Is What They Leave Out
- Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain
- 2 Billion People Use a Super App That Isn't One
- 25 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 210 mentions in 30 episodes 7 per episode
- The Hidden 95%: Why the EU Is Still an Untapped Market
- The Patent Pending Secret That Adds $1M to Your Startup Valuation
- Healthcare Is a Bucket Full of Holes — Here's What Falls Through
- Chinese Customers Used the Drive-Through on Foot
- The Truth About Funding 2,400 Companies in 70 Countries
- 600 Employees Later, He Still Creates Roles for the Right Person
- She Bought Toilet Paper in Bali Before She Knew Her Business Was Gone
- The Thank-You Letter Trick That Shook 10 Top Managers
- 22 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 110 mentions in 10 episodes 11 per episode
- The Hidden Drought That Toppled Governments Across a Whole Region
- The 'No Blueprint' Truth Behind Selling Three Brands
- The Hidden Cost of 9-9-6: Why Bay Area Engineers Are Spoiled
- The Chess Board Secret: Why Small Businesses Only Have One Move
- The Truth About Patents: 'I Did Everything Right — It Hurt Me'
- Why 'Life Has No Purpose' Is the Most Freeing Thing You Can Believe
- 45% of This Cancer Drug Was Fake — Here's How We Proved It
- The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
Everything said about United States, oldest first
Oct 22, 2020 negative
Weisbrot: US and Chinese leaders clash over fundamentally different worldviews
“From my experience living there, I can understand why the president of, you know, the US and the premier of China don't get along. It's because When you get to the table, the way that they look at life is fundamentally different. So when you get to the table a…”
Nov 4, 2020 neutral
Nov 4, 2020 negative
Dec 20, 2020 positive
Dec 22, 2020 bullish
Halasnik: Financing Solutions will grow after top two US competitors went bankrupt
“And we think that As the recession progresses, people are going to come back to needing a line of credit and our two biggest competitors in the United States went out of business already. So, you know, we kind of think that we're going to do well.”
Jan 22, 2021 bearish
Robinson: GetEmails is not a 10-year business due to legal uncertainty
“Like even right now, for me, I know that this get emails thing is not my end all be all. There's a lot of reasons. I don't want to be in this business for like 10 years. One, the legal aspect is very unclear. You know, it's only legal in the U S like, I don't …”
Jan 28, 2021
Anyone can file US, European, or Chinese patents without local ties
“Innovators all over the world can get a patent in the US. You don't have to be a US citizen. You don't have to have a US company. You don't have to have any US ties. Similarly, anyone who, even if they don't live in Europe or have a European tie, can get a pat…”
Jan 28, 2021
US law forbids patenting pure genetic material without human manipulation
“So ultimately in the U S it was held that these genes could not be patented. That pure genetic material was not itself Patentable. Only if it was manipulated by humans, for example, for use in making special proteins, could it actually be patentable?”
Jan 28, 2021
Jan 28, 2021 neutral
Grazer: US Courts Deny Preliminary Injunctions to Non-Practicing Patent Entities
“In the U S the patent trolls are the knows knows the MPEs and non-practicing entities. Their power has been reduced somewhat because now in order to get a preliminary injunction, so that is when, let's say I accuse you, Sean, of patent infringement, not to go …”
Feb 11, 2021 negative
Blanchet found no Canadian precedents for female-on-female workplace discrimination
“And the sad thing, I could not find one case and I looked for weeks and hours every day of a female on female discrimination in the legal, in the law world. There is not a case. Well, I found one actually. I found one not in Canada, in the United States, and t…”
Feb 17, 2021
Dragan: Expanding from UK to US is easier than France to Germany
“It's a lot easier to start a company in the UK and then start doing business in the US or Australia or New Zealand, because there are very similar cultures. Whereas if you're starting a company in France, for example, you, you're basically looking to develop T…”
Mar 4, 2021 neutral
Mar 20, 2021 negative
Weisbrot: Lack of US Government Bargaining Drives High Drug Prices
“The reason why medication in America is so expensive and very cheap outside of the
Outside of the US, despite being made by the same damn companies from the same damn factories, is that because the government doesn't bargain on behalf of the population, they c…”
Mar 24, 2021
Parrish: The US faces an annual developer shortage of 150,000
“In the U S there's about, you know, four to five million college Graduates each year, and only about less than five percent or 250,000 of those might have a CS degree or computer science education. You know, the problem is there's nearly 400,000 new jobs. And …”
Mar 30, 2021
Jul 27, 2021 bullish
Jul 27, 2021 neutral
Sep 16, 2021 neutral
Schneider: US shipping container import filings are digitized and publicly purchasable
“So any container that comes into the United States, there's form filing requirements that have to be done. All those forms are digitized under the, I believe it's the Freedom for Information Act, and they're publicly available. Granted, you have to buy them fr…”
Nov 11, 2021 positive
KFC Positioned as a Middle-Class Sit-Down Restaurant Experience in China
“Like, if you go to KFC in China, It's a sit down experience. It's a middle class experience in America. It's kind of like a lower class experience. Like what's, what's amazing is these brands want to be seen as for sophisticated people in Asia.”
Dec 14, 2021 negative
Stepanov: Direct foreign hires cannot be written off on US taxes
“If you're hiring somebody directly in another country, the money you pay them, you would not be able to write it off on taxes. So this person would have no status because there's no provision in the U.S. For you to write off foreign employees or foreign contra…”
Feb 2, 2022 neutral
Mar 1, 2022
Apr 20, 2022 negative
May 10, 2022 bearish
Jun 30, 2022 negative
Mikic: Webflow's US Data Routing Forces Feature Loss For GDPR Compliance
“Just because they're a US company, all of the data is transferring to US and then from US to a global CDN afterwards. So it becomes a really a pain to create a Webflow website GDPR compliant, and then you're going to lose some of the Webflow core features. So …”
Jul 19, 2022
Robles: Reg A and Reg CF Require US-Incorporated Operating Entities
“You can't have that with a Reg A or even a Reg CF. The company has to be incorporated inside of the US for you to use any either one of these types of offerings. The team can be outside of the US but as far as the actual company has to be in the operating comp…”
Nov 8, 2022 bullish
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Apr 5, 2023 neutral
Rakshit: Shopflo touches payment processing in India but not US
“The US product differ in this matter because payments success rates is a big problem in India. So we allow direct integrations with payment processors when it comes to India in the U S we don't touch payments at all. We essentially ride on top of the Shopify c…”
Apr 5, 2023 negative
Rakshit: Indian software buyers accept half-baked products bundled with services
“The bar for quality that they have for a product or a software product specifically is really high. Whereas in India, the mentality is that, Hey, I mean, I'm okay with a half baked product, as long as you bundle a great service around it.”
Apr 23, 2023 bullish
May 9, 2023 negative
De Jong: Canada and Australia have the worst individual carbon footprints
“Basically, Canada is the worst offender in terms of carbon footprint per person that is influenced by the people themselves together with Australia, even ahead of the United States, and we always think about the United States as, oh, this big offender of clima…”
Aug 8, 2023 positive
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Reyes: Next major war will be fully automated and AI-powered
“I think the next big war is going to be fully automated. Like the problem is that it's going to be fully automated, but it's still including humans. So then we'll just have a massive chop, chop, chop of people. And it's gonna be, like, drones and chips and, li…”
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Reyes: Lack of specialized employers drives Latin American brain drain
“The problem with Latin America and why people immigrate to Europe or the US is that you have a lot of overqualified people. Like there are a lot of people who are super knowledgeable, who are self-made, who make master degrees, PhD degrees in really cool stuff…”
Sep 19, 2023 negative
Jan 30, 2024 positive
Weisbrot: Finnish Classrooms Face Fewer Disruptions Due to Homogeneity
“But I feel like even with that perception of having less authority that there might be less problems in the average classroom in Finland than in a country like the, in a public school in the U S because there's more of a homogenous society.”
Feb 27, 2024 negative
Apr 16, 2024 neutral
Weisbrot: European social safety nets yield happier but less efficient workers
“Living in Europe, I see a very different way where the people feel taken care of. And that produces happier employees. It may not produce more efficient employees because a socialist mindset in that way produces people that could be a little lazy to be fair.”
Jul 23, 2024 neutral
Jul 23, 2024 negative
Weisbrot: Chinese government directly subsidizes manufacturers flooding US with opioids
“The Chinese government is directly responsible for flooding the US with these medications. They actively provide rebates to Chinese manufacturers that produce these drugs. And get them in the hands of Western companies that then lobby for them to be available …”
Aug 11, 2024 negative
Dubois: NIMBY attitudes create major challenges for building US factories
“There's a lot of not in my backyard kind of attitudes sometimes in the United States where, yeah, you know, I don't really want a factory in my state. So I think that that's going to be part of the challenge is finding where you can do this.”
May 6, 2025 positive
Shepherd: Higher education and business environment are America's primary competitive advantages
“What makes, I almost said a phrase, what, one of the things that makes the United States stand out is the quality of our education system at a higher level. So people come here from all over the world to go to Harvard and to go to Stanford and to go to whereve…”
May 23, 2025 positive
Yaes: Scaling Offshore Agencies Requires American Executives to Close US Clients
“And it made more sense to have an American who also has inroads with businesses in the United States. So understands the psyche, understands what they need and understands how to talk to the business people at a very high level.”
Jul 1, 2025
Jul 8, 2025 negative
US exceptionalism stems from tech optimism, risk appetite, and distrusting government
“I really think that the US exceptionalism exists, and I think it is a mix of Faith in technology, the future, and the ability of people to do that. A healthy distrust of government when it's getting too big. And willingness to take risks and be entrepreneurial…”
Jul 8, 2025
Semiconductor reshoring to the US is driven purely by modern warfare
“The only reason why there are so many chips factory getting back to the US is because war is chips and chips is war. Like, if you put chips on a drone, you basically have something that is better than airplanes. And so, We will be forced to change our producti…”
Jul 21, 2025
Fish moved manufacturing back to the US after a decade in Eastern Europe
“After a decade of manufacturing overseas, that going well sometimes, sometimes not going well, and encountering all the problems that come along when it's not going well, I decided it was time to shift gears and move production back to the US from Eastern Euro…”
Jul 21, 2025 positive
Dec 30, 2025 positive
Fallows: Exchange funds allow investors to diversify concentrated stock tax-free
“A second one is what's called an exchange fund, and what that looks like is, let's say I've worked at Exxon, you've worked at Apple, and a third person over here has been working at Bank of America, and all three of those stocks have gone up. Each of us is ove…”
Feb 24, 2026
Jul 28, 2026 bearish
Gurovich: Aging Populations Threaten to Collapse US and European Healthcare Systems
“Usually healthcare system was based on a lot of working people who finance people who got retired, but currently the share of a senior population, I think are, you know, is growing rapidly and this system, the previously many years ago built system won't work.…”