United States
also referred to as: the us · us
59 statements across 30 episodes · 14 bullish · 22 bearish · 34 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2023 by Umang Bedi · said 1,047 times in 63 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Nikhil Kamath (408), Ruchir Sharma (65), Brian Armstrong (23), Nikos Christodoulides (19), Ted Sarandos (17), Chamath Palihapitiya (17), Sunita Narain (16), Niko Bonatsos (15)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 314 mentions in 17 episodes 18 per episode
- Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- They Called The Trade Wars & China's Housing Crash | Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 4 · Nikhil Kamath
- Two Pharma Giants Who'd Never Met | Mankind & Dr. Reddy's | WTF is Pharma? · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikos Christodoulides on Why India Must Lead What Comes Next | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 433 mentions in 22 episodes 20 per episode
- India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath
- Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #22 | WTF are Craft Beverages? Nikhil ft. the Founders of Blue Tokai, Subko, Svami, and Mossant · Nikhil Kamath
- Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Netflix Co-CEO, Ted Sarandos | People by WTF | Ep. 10 · Nikhil Kamath
- From Iran to Uber CEO | Nikhil Kamath x Dara Khosrowshahi | People by WTF | Ep. 14 · Nikhil Kamath
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 121 mentions in 10 episodes 12 per episode
- Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 15 | WTF is Climate Change? Nikhil ft. Sunita, Bhumi, Navroz and Mirik · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
- WTF Ep# 16 | What character "flaws" make the best entrepreneurs? Nikhil ft.Ritesh, Ghazal and Manish · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Bill Gates | People by WTF | Ep. #1 · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Nandan Nilekani | People by WTF | Ep #3 · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Ranbir Kapoor | People by WTF Ep #2 · Nikhil Kamath
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 179 mentions in 14 episodes 13 per episode
- Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #5 | EdTech What’s Broken, What’s Next? With Nikhil, Ronnie Screwvala , Gaurav Munjal & Jay Kotak · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #11 | WTF Goes into Building a Fashion, Beauty, or Home Brand? Nikhil w/ Kishore, Raj, and Ananth · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 13 | WTF does it take to Build Influence Today? Nikhil w/ Nuseir, Tanmay, Prajakta & Ranveer · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about United States, oldest first
Apr 20, 2023 bullish
Jun 11, 2023 neutral
Jul 2, 2023 neutral
Jul 2, 2023 positive
Nithin Kamath: Grassroots Sports Beyond Cricket Are Essential To Scale Indian Fitness
“I think the only way to get that five million number to go up is I don't know if people will, I mean, you need to, people will go for fitness reasons, you know, I mean, I think it has to be sport reason. I think, you know, sport has to be promoted in this coun…”
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Jul 23, 2023 bullish
Sep 2, 2023 positive
Nov 20, 2023 neutral
Feb 8, 2024 negative
India Directs Only 3% of Its Energy R&D Budget Toward Renewables
“So energy R&D is forty-five billion. Right? A hundred and fifty million of that goes into clean energy R&D. A third of it goes into fossil fuels. The rest is nuclear. Over all these years, Three percent is going into clean energy and going into renewable energ…”
Feb 8, 2024
Feb 8, 2024 negative
Apr 21, 2024 positive
Jun 14, 2024 bullish
Gates: US will overregulate health AI while India drives adoption
“I think it's very possible That the health advice piece, that the U.S. Will overregulate that, and, ah, you know, just see the risk and not, not the benefit, and that middle-income countries, and I put India at the top of the list, will engage in a dialogue an…”
Jul 3, 2024 bearish
Shenoy: Hard seltzers will lack stickiness in India compared to the US
“The Americans were mixing their whiskies with coke, but we in India are anyway mixing with soda and water. So if you're going to create a seltzer, everybody's making their own seltzers here. So how are you even, it's, so it's to make something like that from a…”
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Rahul Reddy: Quick commerce in India will stick around and dominate
“I feel like, unfortunately for us, it will very much stick around and dominate because If you look at the US, which I'm familiar with, people have been ordering groceries, let's say in the US online for like a decade now. But the behavior that they got used to…”
Apr 5, 2025 positive
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Gates: AI will render skills obsolete within a single generation
“I think it's a rate of change that's greater than most, most periods of history. You know, when we made in the US, you know, when we went from 50% farmers to two percent farmers, It, you could still farm your whole generation. It was your children that stopped…”
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Apr 26, 2025 negative
May 12, 2025 neutral
Anucheth: Societal need, not technology, will dictate self-driving vehicle adoption
“It's not the question of technology. It's the question of need, societal need. Do you re actually require a self-driving car here is the question at that price. So if you see US, ah, there is the dearth of drivers, especially for long haul, ah, trailers like t…”
Jun 7, 2025
Aug 2, 2025 bullish
Aug 2, 2025 positive
Aug 24, 2025 negative
Khosrowshahi: Quick commerce fundamentally fails in America due to high labor costs
“With quick commerce you can't automate that much because the cost of the automation doesn't bear out in a small box. So you have to use human labor the car. And so in markets where the cost of human labor and is not there and the concentration of customers isn…”
Aug 29, 2025 bearish
Aug 29, 2025 negative
Aug 29, 2025 bullish
Sep 3, 2025 bearish
Sep 3, 2025 neutral
Sep 3, 2025 neutral
Sep 3, 2025 neutral
Sep 3, 2025 neutral
Sharma: US growth outperformance over Europe and Japan is largely demographic
“The really underappreciated part of the demographic advantage America had. That because, partly because of immigration, America's population growth rate was much faster than Europe and Japan. So if you adjusted for per capita income, yes, the gap is there, but…”
Sep 3, 2025 bearish
Sep 3, 2025 bearish
Sep 3, 2025 neutral
Sharma: Trump's foreign policy is transactional and can reverse on India instantly
“We're in a world, at least Trump's world is a very transactional world. And this is what I said even when he, like when he got elected. So let's not think that there's something major strategic going on here. This is a transactional world. If tomorrow somethin…”
Sep 3, 2025 bearish
Nov 30, 2025 negative
Dec 20, 2025 negative
Dec 20, 2025 neutral
Dalio: US stock wealth-to-money ratio matches 1929 and 2000 bubble peaks
“What's the money ratio right now in the United States is about eight and a half to one, and so on, and when you look at it and then also then there's what it's in. The stock market is, is right now about three to one, and that's very high. If you were to go ba…”
Dec 20, 2025 neutral
Dec 20, 2025 neutral
Dalio: US leads in advanced chips, China leads in AI applications
“The inventiveness of new chips and the most advanced chips the United States is a bit ahead, is, is ahead. And then but the application to use the chips, whatever AI there is, to be able to integrate it into life and making it for the society Most applications…”
Feb 11, 2026 negative
Harari: US foreign policy is reverting to Trump family dynastic diplomacy
“So it's now foreign relations increasingly is relations with the Trump family. Not with United States, which is why so many countries are doing business with certain members of the Trump family in order to influence US foreign policy. So this is really going b…”
Feb 11, 2026 bearish
Harari: US strong-arm tactics will damage European alliance for years
“Even if you get what you want in the short term, and what happened in the last, of course, it's not just the last few weeks, it's the last few years, but the Europeans will not forget that. And the feeling that you get that, I don't know, your best friend is w…”
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Apr 20, 2026
Banga: US holds 17% of World Bank shares as largest single shareholder
“America is the largest single country shareholder. Actually, the European Union is bigger than America, but it doesn't vote as one country on our board. And therefore, yes, America is 17% of the shares. Right. That's their share of the capital they've contribu…”
May 28, 2026 bearish
May 28, 2026 neutral
Martin Escobari: US culture is a salad bowl; Brazil is a soup
“I like to say the United States is like a salad bowl. They're all here, but they are Irish American, Indian American. In Brazilian, we, and I say we because I became, I identify as Brazilian. I became a Brazilian citizen. I dream in Portuguese. It's more of a …”
May 28, 2026 bearish
May 28, 2026 positive
Escobari: Continuous waves of traumatized immigrants drive US vitality
“This country, unusually for this scale, gets a new wave of
Traumatize immigrants.
Every year.
And you look at time and time again, it is that generation of people that shakes things up and keep this society vibrant and fresh.
And I think it's critical to their…”
Jun 17, 2026 bearish
Prasad: US 100% tariffs on non-US innovative drugs threaten Indian CDMOs
“No, if you're selling it to the US, and it's an innovative drug, not a generic drug, and it's not manufactured in the US, it's manufactured in India, there is a likelihood of a hundred percent tariff. So this affects our CDMO industry, the contract development…”
Jun 17, 2026
Jul 1, 2026 negative
Christodoulides: Unilateral national self-interest produces long-run lose-lose outcomes
“If we, all of us will follow a, you know, An approach of just serving our interest in the long run. I mean, in the short run, we may see, you know, some interest, some gains, but in the long run, it's going to be a lose, lose situation.”
Jul 1, 2026 negative
Jul 1, 2026 neutral
Christodoulides: The Russian invasion proved Europe can no longer rely on America
“Today, all the last three, four years, especially following what happened in Ukraine, the Russian invasion in Ukraine, we understood as Europeans that we cannot be dependent on the Americans. And so we start investing In our defense and security, in having our…”
Jul 1, 2026 neutral
Jul 28, 2026 bearish
Jul 28, 2026
Klein: Deep and liquid reserve markets require governments to issue massive debt
“Foreign investors, particularly reserve managers, want liquidity and they want it, which means it has to be a big market. But the only way it's a big market is if there's a lot of debt in the first place. So you cannot have a liquid market for assets unless th…”
Jul 28, 2026 neutral
Klein: Developing nations defy theory by running surpluses to buy Western assets
“Places that in theory ought to be, you know, a sort of standard theory should be having trade deficits because of their investment needs, actually having surpluses, and sending you know, buying financial assets, rather than borrowing, their net lending to plac…”