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Reid Hoffman

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Supporting him in that is, I think, a good thing.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Supporting him in that is, I think, a good thing.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Supporting him in that is, I think, a good thing.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Well, it's another area that's a political third rail in the US because older people vote at much higher percentages. And so therefore, figuring out how to, like, for example, again, if you said if Doge had guts, they'd go look at this area to say, well, how should we rationalize this on a cost per quarter?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Well, it's another area that's a political third rail in the US because older people vote at much higher percentages. And so therefore, figuring out how to, like, for example, again, if you said if Doge had guts, they'd go look at this area to say, well, how should we rationalize this on a cost per quarter?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Well, it's another area that's a political third rail in the US because older people vote at much higher percentages. And so therefore, figuring out how to, like, for example, again, if you said if Doge had guts, they'd go look at this area to say, well, how should we rationalize this on a cost per quarter?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

quality month of life and you go, well, look, there's a whole bunch of money that's spent on these last three to six months of life. Let's reduce the spending on that and say that is not a public expense. And let's increase, for example, preventative and other things that are much more dollar focus.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

quality month of life and you go, well, look, there's a whole bunch of money that's spent on these last three to six months of life. Let's reduce the spending on that and say that is not a public expense. And let's increase, for example, preventative and other things that are much more dollar focus.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

quality month of life and you go, well, look, there's a whole bunch of money that's spent on these last three to six months of life. Let's reduce the spending on that and say that is not a public expense. And let's increase, for example, preventative and other things that are much more dollar focus.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Now, again, unfortunately, I would predict that they're not going to do that because it's a political third rail and it requires courage and other things to go into it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Now, again, unfortunately, I would predict that they're not going to do that because it's a political third rail and it requires courage and other things to go into it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Now, again, unfortunately, I would predict that they're not going to do that because it's a political third rail and it requires courage and other things to go into it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

So the right way, I think, to think about this from an American or any other perspective is to say China bans competition in China from Meta, Twitter, etc., And so the right way to say is like, look, if you're banning our companies, we should ban yours. Entirely a commercial question, not a question around like, well, that's a Chinese social media company.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

So the right way, I think, to think about this from an American or any other perspective is to say China bans competition in China from Meta, Twitter, etc., And so the right way to say is like, look, if you're banning our companies, we should ban yours. Entirely a commercial question, not a question around like, well, that's a Chinese social media company.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

So the right way, I think, to think about this from an American or any other perspective is to say China bans competition in China from Meta, Twitter, etc., And so the right way to say is like, look, if you're banning our companies, we should ban yours. Entirely a commercial question, not a question around like, well, that's a Chinese social media company.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Because I actually believe that there's a different question when you say, well, what should be the rules of governance for social media companies when you get around the world? And I think there should be some transparency, responsiveness to local laws, et cetera. But I think that's the right thing to do.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Because I actually believe that there's a different question when you say, well, what should be the rules of governance for social media companies when you get around the world? And I think there should be some transparency, responsiveness to local laws, et cetera. But I think that's the right thing to do.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Because I actually believe that there's a different question when you say, well, what should be the rules of governance for social media companies when you get around the world? And I think there should be some transparency, responsiveness to local laws, et cetera. But I think that's the right thing to do.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Well, it gets back to the tariffs question, which is you want people to be playing on a fair and balanced playing field. If you're country X is denying licenses to country Y, then country Y should do that to country X, right? As just a general thing to get back to a playing field. And by the way, there's lots of bad actors in the world. Yes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Well, it gets back to the tariffs question, which is you want people to be playing on a fair and balanced playing field. If you're country X is denying licenses to country Y, then country Y should do that to country X, right? As just a general thing to get back to a playing field. And by the way, there's lots of bad actors in the world. Yes.