Ben Horowitz

I can't give you good advice for you.

And particularly your friends are going to give you good advice for them, not for you.

And so don't listen to your friends.

And, you know, figure out who you are and, you know, what the best path for you is, I would just say on that.

Yeah, so by the way, so just on political donations, I also donated $5 million to the Kamala Harris campaign.

Important fact.

Yeah.

Often not reported on.

Just so you know.

Well, it is reported on Twitter every time the MAGA people get mad at me.

Look, on politics, let me kind of just tell you where that came from and how I'm thinking about it in general.

tech had like very little voice in Washington, D.C., and that had extremely severe negative consequences for tech.

And specifically, so I can go through a few things in the Biden administration.

One is they basically almost ended the crypto industry by enforcing things that weren't even in the law to shut down companies.

And then

the same thing was happening with AI.

So the last Biden administration executive order was to require for all sales of GPUs worldwide that any time you sold one, you'd first need government approval, U.S.

government approval.

So that would have basically taken us out of the AI race entirely.

And the issue behind that was...