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 penalty is for not doing that.
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Um, and so you have these super high-tech companies with this great technology, um, and they're like, well, you know, we're investing all this in RD so we can get a higher margin than cost plus, um, and we'll deliver it much faster, and it will be much better, and it'll be half the price.
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Well, you still can't do it because of that.
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So there there's kind of those kinds of roles which we've been working on.
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Um and then there's you know, there's another thing that we bump into, you know, we uh spent a lot of time trying to help um you know, help our friends in defense and intelligence and so forth.
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And you know, the budgeting process for them is difficult.
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Uh you know, they they've spent whatever they spent, they have the vendors whoever they have, and so to get new things in.
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Is complicated.
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And so that's uh something that um certainly needs a lot of work.
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And uh I think you know, I go back to you know, if you're going through the lens of we have to win as opposed to we can't take headline risk, you know, we can't be on 60 minutes with a toilet seat that costs ten thousand dollars or whatever it is that costs all this, um, then that's a better place to come from.
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Um, but you
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Know how that's done, you know, is TBD for sure.
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So we're we're certainly helpful and we're going to engage on it hard.
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And you know, look, I think the good news, the best news on this administration by far when it comes to all things tech, uh, is that they are open for business and open to the conversation and willing to talk about it.
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They might not agree with anything we have to say.
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Say they may tell us to you know pound sand, whatever.
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But we can at least have the conversation.
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Like the frustrating thing.
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And then by the way, you know, because I did the last time we did this, Dan Patrick was like, Oh, you guys are so entitled.
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You want to meet with Biden.
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