Ben Horowitz

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3,643 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 15 Jan

Ben Horowitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Ben & Marc Show · Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups · 12 Nov 2024 podcast

And they did things, you know, like debanking companies, um, issuing Wells notices to companies for no reason, threatening companies, uh, and so forth, all with kind of the goal, and it was podcast-host

you know, mainly focused on the areas of fintech and crypto. podcast-host

And they did it, you know, to basically try to destroy those industries. podcast-host

And it's still unclear exactly why. podcast-host

But that was, you know, it was a very hard fight. podcast-host

They were very good at it. podcast-host

And they did, you know, just to give you just like a rough idea how much they damaged the U.S. podcast-host

uh industry. podcast-host

Um, Korea, which is a very small country by comparison, has double the crypto usage as the US. podcast-host

So, like just, you know, like as a very, very small example. podcast-host

Um, and this is, you know, at a critically important time, they were doing this in that the kind of foundation for um safe AI in terms of one, you know, not getting being podcast-host

Vulnerable as a consumer to AI cyber attacks, two to dealing with deep fakes, three to dealing with bots, you know, four to dealing or enabling uh new services with machine-to-machine payments. podcast-host

All of none of those things were we going to be able to do as a country. podcast-host

So we were very, very likely to fall behind in AI and very, very likely to fall behind in the technological race. podcast-host

And in addition, uh the podcast-host

administration um was looking like they were in a very dangerous path with AI as well, uh, where they had took an incredible, it wasn't the same kind of we want to wreck the industry, but more we're gonna take an extremely insular view and not look at it globally, but just look at what it means for the U.S. podcast-host

And all those things um, you know, kind of depressed everything from the crypto markets to the stock market to entrepreneurial podcast-host

activity. podcast-host

We saw entrepreneurial activity just die in those areas. podcast-host

And, you know, we were in a very tough situation, which is why we got involved in politics to begin with. podcast-host

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