David Sacks

But if you're a consumer product, there's so many more things you have to address.

And you're going to be attacked at so many more different ways.

It was more than that.

Remember last summer, there was the court case where the judge said that they were guilty of having the monopoly, and then he was going to rule on what the remedies were going to be.

And I think that was in, what was it, September?

And the judge said that during the summer and then whenever it was that he ruled on the remedy, that they were existentially threatened in their search business and so everything had changed.

And so the company didn't get broken up.

Remember, they were thinking about whether to spin out

Chrome, YouTube, yeah, all these kinds of movies.

Well, I think maybe a good place to start is with the reaction to it.

Like you said, there was this huge outpouring of people in Silicon Valley who reacted to

in a way that showed that they understood that this story was a hit piece, that it was biased.

And I'd say most importantly, it didn't even live up to its own headline.

It didn't prove the thing that they were asserting in the headline.

And so everyone could just see on its face that it was a hatchet job.

And so everyone started reacting that way.

And it was nice to get that outpouring of support from so many different people in Silicon Valley, including many of the companies who we just talked about are so vigorously competing with each other.

I mean, I think this might be the only thing that Sam and Elon have agreed on in the last year.

So that was sort of the next that was the next big lie that the media tried to perpetrate was somehow that this response was coordinated by me.

No.