Jacob Ward
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1,814 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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Just this week, they've announced, for instance, that they have had breakthroughs in how we're going to make EV batteries in the future, being able to smash, they think, 60% more energy into the same size battery, meaning that you could have a much smaller battery, not have to have it take up as much room in the car.
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But they haven't said who they're going to sell that to yet.
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They don't know who it's going to be.
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And if it's going to try and be exported to the United States, they're going to be hit with these big tariffs.
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You have a country like that sprinting ahead in innovation.
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Tim Cook famously said decades ago, or about a decade ago, that you can fill football fields with the number of engineers, high level, skilled engineers that they have in China.
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Whereas in the United States, it's hard to put a few into even a conference room.
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We have a big innovation problem in this country.
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And so at the same time that
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President Trump has injected all this uncertainty into the planning of companies such that they are just going to sit tight, hold down the fort and hoard cash for as long as they can while laying people off.
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You have in China this sprinting ahead of an innovation culture and a infrastructure designed to foster that innovation.
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And those things together mean that this doesn't really look like it's going to go the way that President Trump seems to have intended.
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What would life have been like for you, for me, and for Mark Zuckerberg if Facebook had not bought WhatsApp and Instagram back when it did?
This is the world, the fantasy world, that the government has to basically construct in the FTC's trial of meta that goes on this week.
It's a big deal.
This is an antitrust trial that would, in theory, force Facebook to basically separate itself from WhatsApp and Instagram if it didn't go its way.
The argument that the government is making here is that basically by buying those two companies, it has essentially, as a company, made itself a monopoly, something that no smaller competitor can really...
you know, have an edge on because they have come to so totally dominate how you and I communicate with one another, share photographs, even shop online.
Now, you have to go back and think about the world that Facebook occupied back when it bought both of those companies.
At that time, Facebook was a very dominant player, but already Mark Zuckerberg clearly could see that there was a limit to the growth that Facebook was going to experience and that there were new competitors coming in.
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