Jared Isaacman

But generally, I assumed across the board, we were all going to have to do more with less.

And do I think the US government is capable of doing more with less?

Absolutely.

No question.

If I was like a total, you know, I would have been advocating for the same budget, like keep it flat, and I will do way more and get far better results with those dollars because I will know how to allocate them more effectively and efficiently than any government employee is going to be capable of it because I've literally had to do that for decades.

a quarter of a century.

There's no doubt if you're a successful entrepreneur, you are far better at capital allocation than any government employee.

You just had to have been because if you screw it up, you don't get more.

And, you know, generally the government, you know, will keep funding things for a while.

But I wouldn't have like, unless they told me like, hey, you have to cut it by 20%, then I would have said, great, let me pick what needs to go.

And I'll make sure that what the, you know, the 80% that we retain will be focused on the things that will truly change the world.

So what I briefed the president on during my interview, and honestly, I've handed off the whole plan to Secretary Duffy.

I don't know if he'll use any of it at all.

But everything that's for the good of the country, I'm 100% for.

And what work we did, that was assembled by a lot of great people, by the way.

A lot of people contributed to that plan.

Yeah, I wanted to make sure it went into good hands.

But step one is you got to reorganize the agency and rebuild the culture.

I mean, that's just, you can't do the fun stuff until you reorganize and rebuild the culture.

Like, this is a total step one, we gotta admit we have a problem here.