David Sacks
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first heard Jul 2026
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I think even the people who support a lot of this regulation are now acknowledging that we're going to need a federal standard.
The problem is that when they talk about it, what they really want is to federalize the most onerous version of all the state laws.
And that can't be allowed either.
So, you know, there's going to be a battle to come.
I think as the states become more and more unwieldy, you know, as it becomes more of a trap for startups that they now have to report into 50 different states at 50 different times to 50 different agencies about 50 different things, people are going to realize this is crazy and they're going to try to federalize it.
And then the question, I think, is whether we get preemption heavy or preemption light.
Um, you know, do we, do we get a, I think everyone's going to ultimately be in favor of a, of a single federal standard.
Um, because I think one of America's greatest advantages is that we have a large national market, right?
Not 50 separate state markets, like kind of, you know, Europe before the EU wasn't competitive at all on the internet because it's 30 different regulatory regimes.
And so, you know, if you're a European startup and even if you won your country, it didn't get you very far because you still had to like,
know figure out how to compete in 30 other countries before you could even win europe and then meanwhile your american competitors won the entire american market and is ready to scale up globally so the fact that we have a single national market is just fundamental to our competitiveness and it's why you know winners in america then go on to kind of win the whole world so we have to preserve that and i think we will eventually get some some federal preemption i think the question will just again be whether we preempt heavy or preempt light um
Second big area is infrastructure and energy.
We want to help this amazing infrastructure boom that's happening.
And the biggest, I think, limiting factor there is going to be around energy.
I think President Trump's been incredibly farsighted in this.
I mean, he was talking about drill, baby, drill many years ago.
He understood that energy is the basis for everything.
It's definitely the basis for this AI boom.
And we want to basically get all of these unnecessary regulations, the permitting restrictions, a lot of the nimbyism out of the way so that AI companies can build data centers and get power for them.
And we can talk about that more if you want.
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