Quinn Slobodian
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708 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Quinn Slobodian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What's happened, and this is often misunderstood in Silicon Valley, is that as companies have gone public, starting with Zuckerberg's Facebook, they've totally redesigned the way corporate governance works.
so that their votes are worth usually 10x or even 20x more than people who are coming in after it goes public, meaning they actually can't be held accountable.
They can't be dislodged.
Musk will hold 85% of the votes needed to dislodge him as the head of SpaceX after it goes public on Friday.
Exactly.
So you're having your cake and eating it too.
You have the full control nascent in the family firm or the private corporation, and yet you're tapping global capital markets, like you're getting all kinds of liquidity that you wouldn't otherwise because you're printing new shares and selling them off as little slivers of ownership, which don't amount to any kind of control.
So it's actually hacked the public corporation, which was supposed to separate ownership and control and put them back together so that you get this techno king like figure who can also, because of campaign finance laws in this country, then give unlimited amounts of money to any candidate that they want.
And the great man of history then kind of comes back in through the back door because you can't deny then the concentration of agency.
Right.
Well, I mean, first thing to say there is it's a pied-a-terre, right?
I mean, he's got one in New Zealand.
He's got one in Argentina.
He's got one in Miami.
The man doesn't really live anywhere, right?
I mean, he lives where his private jet takes him.
So one doesn't really want to give too much weight to that, I think.
But the other answer is, it goes back to your point about the operating system.
So someone like Musk does think that society is governed by an operating system.
That's what Doge was, right?
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