Elad Gil
speaker
6,339 appearances
58 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 10 Sep
Elad Gil’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Obviously had a really big impact while you were there.
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Right now there's a lot of different people that I know in Silicon Valley who are moving out to help with different aspects of government in a way that I haven't seen people show up before.
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And these are really exceptional people who I think have accomplished a lot in their careers over time in tech.
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And now they're coming in and helping out in government.
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What should a private sector person expect when they get to DC?
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Yeah, it used to be an embedded part of the business community to say that there's enormous both patriotism and value in terms of going in and sort of doing a a term in uh a government or sort of helping out in different ways along those lines.
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I guess often people are motivated by those altruistic reasons and then there's almost like the selfish reasons to do it.
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What do you think are some of the selfish reasons?
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You're a 25-year-old engineer and you have a great offer from an open AI or, you know.
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another major sort of tech company, why should you go into government instead right now?
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It was actually one of the things that shocked me as I got to know you in Ivanka was a degree to which you were vilified in the press.
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And then you'd meet both of you in person.
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And you know, you when I've asked, because before we started working on Brinko together, I actually asked around different people to, you know, it's like just in case, like, is there anything there?
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Like, is it because there was so much negativity.
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And everybody basically said you were a mensch, you know, good person, tries to help whenever you can, et cetera.
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Same with Ivanka.
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And as I got to know you, I'm like, Oh my God, these people are super smart, they're clear thinkers, they're always trying to do the right thing.
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And yet they got completely vilified.
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It's always thought that was almost like a um
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A travesty in terms of how those things can happen.
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