Brad Gerstner

Well, I mean, you nailed it.

The conditions for all of those things, economic, right, are safety and security.

You don't have any economic growth in the region unless you have that.

You know, and I think you guys covered it pretty well, but maybe just highlight a broader feature, I think, of this presidency.

Right.

I think we might call Trump like the moonshot presidency.

If you think about everything he's trying to accomplish, even Hillary Clinton said if he pulls off peace between Ukraine and Russia, which is also going on simultaneous to these efforts, that she herself will nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Right.

I look at the presidency.

There are moonshots going on everywhere.

China, AI, reindustrialization, India, Pakistan, Ukraine, you know, and Russia, what he's doing in the Middle East.

And if you think about moonshots, we all do these in Silicon Valley, these are high risk, high reward efforts.

We wanna back people who go for moonshots, but the reality is most people don't have the courage to go for moonshots because there's a high probability that it won't work.

But if you think about this for a second, after the horror of the October 7th attacks,

the chaos in Syria, the attacks by Yemen, the escalations fueled by Iran, the idea that the president, Witkoff, and you're right, Chamath, our friend Jared Kushner, could have overcome all of that, right?

And that could have been all-out war across the Middle East.

It could have plunged the entire Middle East into utter chaos.

But instead, he decapitated Iran.

We brought Syria into the fold.

We're on the verge of expanding the Abraham Accords.