David Sacks
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And finally, Kevin Bass, a citizen journalist, has been tracking the release files and posting his findings on X, specifically in regards to Reid Hoffman, perhaps the figure in tech most closely associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
Some of it gets heated, but hopefully you'll come away with new perspectives and great information.
I felt like it was important to showcase a range of viewpoints on this issue.
I'm trying to keep an open mind, and I'll describe my own point of view at the end of the show.
And with that, here we go.
Sagar, let me start with you.
What is the
import of the arrest of Prince Andrew in the UK this morning.
I mean, is this a case of show us the man and we'll tell you the crime?
I mean, obviously, it seems kind of coincidental that he's not being arrested for misconduct in the Epstein affair.
He's being arrested on mishandling, I guess, trade secrets or public documents.
So obviously, the timing of this is not coincidental.
Okay, wait, I can't let that just go by.
What do you mean by involving co-hosts of this podcast?
Yeah, let me just, for viewers of this episode who didn't see that episode, let me just summarize what exactly happened there, because I want to just make sure that...
Jason's reputation is not unfairly impugned.
And I don't think you're doing that, but just to be absolutely clear about it, what happened was that Jason hosted an episode of This Week in Startups roughly, I think, in 2011 with a couple of the Bitcoin core founders.
And then Epstein reached out to him for an introduction to those people.
I thought, and one of my takeaways from that was, like you said, Sayegar, that Epstein was extraordinarily early to Bitcoin.
He clearly had a nose