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Aaron Levie

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

Yeah, thank you.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

Yeah, thank you.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

Well, I would highlight three main areas that I think are big accomplishments for the Trump administration in the first 100 days. So number one has to be the border. Like Jamal said, I think you have to give the administration an A-plus on this. They've completely stopped the border crisis.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

Well, I would highlight three main areas that I think are big accomplishments for the Trump administration in the first 100 days. So number one has to be the border. Like Jamal said, I think you have to give the administration an A-plus on this. They've completely stopped the border crisis.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

I think we all knew that Trump would take action on this because it's one of the main issues he campaigned on. But I think if you had asked any of us four months ago, would this problem be completely solved, meaning border apprehensions completely stopped, border completely sealed within the first 100 days?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

I think we all knew that Trump would take action on this because it's one of the main issues he campaigned on. But I think if you had asked any of us four months ago, would this problem be completely solved, meaning border apprehensions completely stopped, border completely sealed within the first 100 days?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

I don't think we would have believed necessarily that it would get done so quickly, but it has. Recall that for four years during the Biden years, we were told for the first three years that the problem didn't even exist. Whenever the videos were published of caravans coming or throngs of people running across the border. We were told that these were cherry pick videos on Fox News. It wasn't real.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

I don't think we would have believed necessarily that it would get done so quickly, but it has. Recall that for four years during the Biden years, we were told for the first three years that the problem didn't even exist. Whenever the videos were published of caravans coming or throngs of people running across the border. We were told that these were cherry pick videos on Fox News. It wasn't real.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

Finally, in the last year of the Biden administration, they said, okay, we're finally going to do something about it. They took some limited actions. They said that doing more than that would require new legislation. Well, all of that was just gaslighting, it turns out. Trump came in, he restored, remained in Mexico, and other policies completely stopped it.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

Finally, in the last year of the Biden administration, they said, okay, we're finally going to do something about it. They took some limited actions. They said that doing more than that would require new legislation. Well, all of that was just gaslighting, it turns out. Trump came in, he restored, remained in Mexico, and other policies completely stopped it.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

He had this line at the State of the Union, which I think is exactly right, which is, we didn't need a new law, we just needed a new president. So I think that's area number one. Area number two, I would say, would be the vibe shift in the culture around wokeism and DEI. You know, how quickly we forget about this, but wokeism has completely collapsed. I don't know that anyone is...

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

He had this line at the State of the Union, which I think is exactly right, which is, we didn't need a new law, we just needed a new president. So I think that's area number one. Area number two, I would say, would be the vibe shift in the culture around wokeism and DEI. You know, how quickly we forget about this, but wokeism has completely collapsed. I don't know that anyone is...

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

endorsing in a full-throated way. Moreover, beyond just sort of the cultural aspect of it, I think we've had significant policy changes on DEI. Trump has basically ended DEI at the government level. He also signed an executive order ending the use of disparate impact for affirmative action. This is the policy that said that even if you have

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

endorsing in a full-throated way. Moreover, beyond just sort of the cultural aspect of it, I think we've had significant policy changes on DEI. Trump has basically ended DEI at the government level. He also signed an executive order ending the use of disparate impact for affirmative action. This is the policy that said that even if you have

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

a policy that's applied in a completely neutral and objective way, if it results in a disparate impact where different groups are represented in a different way in the outcomes, then somehow that must be racist. And that led to essentially engineering the results of various populations to basically fit quotas. And I think all of that now has fallen by the wayside.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

a policy that's applied in a completely neutral and objective way, if it results in a disparate impact where different groups are represented in a different way in the outcomes, then somehow that must be racist. And that led to essentially engineering the results of various populations to basically fit quotas. And I think all of that now has fallen by the wayside.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

And I think that meritocracy and colorblindness are back. The only holdout really has been these universities where Trump is now taking action against Harvard. And I think that ultimately we will win that battle. You see that even in relatively liberal companies, the DI departments have been canceled and they're moving back towards more of a meritocracy.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

And I think that meritocracy and colorblindness are back. The only holdout really has been these universities where Trump is now taking action against Harvard. And I think that ultimately we will win that battle. You see that even in relatively liberal companies, the DI departments have been canceled and they're moving back towards more of a meritocracy.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

So I would say that that's like big shift number two. And I think if any of us had tried to predict that a hundred days ago, we would have thought, yes, Trump will do something about it. But I don't think we would have predicted the total collapse of wokeism and DEI so quickly. And then I'd say the third area is, which is still in flight, is the reprivatization of the economy.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down

So I would say that that's like big shift number two. And I think if any of us had tried to predict that a hundred days ago, we would have thought, yes, Trump will do something about it. But I don't think we would have predicted the total collapse of wokeism and DEI so quickly. And then I'd say the third area is, which is still in flight, is the reprivatization of the economy.