Chamath Palihapitiya

As I understand it, the protests are either fizzling out or being cracked down on at this point, and I tend to think it's dying down.

But I'm not sure, and it's a dynamic situation.

Look, the problem is whenever I comment on something like this, it ends up being Trump advisor, David Sacks says whatever.

Yeah, you get clipped.

And the reality is I'm only involved on two issues, and this isn't one of them, so I don't really think I should be commenting.

It's really hard to tell.

It's an incredibly vibrant people.

If you look at the Iranian diaspora, they're really a dynamic part of every culture they join.

If you know Persians in LA or Persians, I mean, you and I played poker with the diaspora in LA.

Yeah.

They're really great.

The thing that I would say is that I don't think that you can paint the Middle East with the broad brush here.

It's a very different culture than the other Middle East countries.

It's a fundamentally different religion.

It's a fundamentally different language.

So I would just say that I don't know what's actually going on in Iran.

There's been so much information containment that I take Sachs' point of view, which is I think the only people in the United States right now that have an accurate sense are probably the military and intelligence apparatus of the United States.

And the rest of us are underreacting or overreacting to small problems

pieces of information without really knowing the context and the mosaic of the whole.

The crazy thing about this, if you shift away from Iran, was specifically the information warfare game is totally different.