Ben Horowitz
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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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government that required he only hire citizens.
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And so he was basically doomed either way.
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But that's Elon.
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Elon's got, you know, he is the richest man in the world or whatever, and he can fight those things.
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Um and he fought them as, as we all know, extremely hard in many arenas.
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Um but for a new company like
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You know, it's a wrap.
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Yeah, so the debanking um was you know kind of one of the more nefarious things.
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It was actually created, the idea um was started during the Obama administration through a a uh program called Choke Point 1.0.
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And what Choke Point 1.0 was designed to do was, you know, there were these laws that were coming out, like uh marijuana was legal, and then of course there was the Second Amendment laws and so forth.
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Um and so how do you stop people from
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From selling weed or selling guns.
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And the answer that the administration came up with is: well, we won't allow businesses who do that to have bank accounts, like that we're just gonna kick them out of the US financial system.
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And we'll do that by putting pressure through the FDIC on the banks that if they bank these things, you know, we won't let them borrow at the Fed window.
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We, you know, we'll uh put pressure on them, we'll find them.
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We'll do these things.
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And so then they re-ran that play for Choke Point 2.0, but rather than um kind of weed and guns, which you know you you might have your issues with weed and guns, they actually did it on emerging industries like crypto and uh and fintech.
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And we had you know dozens of companies kicked out of the banking system simply.
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Simply for in a very legally compliant way, trying to build a company, you know, that would, you know, employ people and and you know, like make the country strong.
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I mean, these these are kind of important technologies, important things.
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