Ivan Raiklin
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My point is that I've been following tech much more closely, I think, than most people that you would expect, whether it's military, government, et cetera.
So I've had, if you will, tentacles and reach in different sectors.
And I know the ecosystem fairly well going back decades in Silicon Valley to where it gets into big tech world and censorship.
And also on the East Coast, considering I've been in the special ops and in the intelligence community.
So I'm one of the few players that are out there that are also vocal.
that know the people, players, down to the individual level of the key institutions that are driving the American conversation, whether it's from the deep state side as an insider to kind of what we're seeing on this other side.
Maybe not like deep, deep, but I know enough to that I have enough insiders to be able to give a very accurate assessment
and what should happen to fix the shit show that we saw like the last five years.
So Peter Thiel, touch points, Jason Calacanis, and then my Gary V story.
Oh, before I go to Gary V, I actually ended up deciding to run for U.S.
Senate in 2018 in Virginia.
And the very first... I mean, you've got to have money to go run for Senate, right?
Yeah.
Or any political office.
So I go down the list on Forbes, right?
Forbes list of billionaires.
And I'm looking at the list.
I'm thinking, who is most closely aligned with me ideologically?
It's not going to be 100%.
But who's the one most closely aligned with that potentially...