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47 published records
01 / belief
“I think what you're explaining is a microcosm that really outlines why the next decade-plus went the way that it did.”
02 / prediction
“Nobody is going to be 100% the way you want, of course. But I think you'll be able to quickly figure out, okay, who's going to be a productive representative and who maybe has other motives?”
03 / prediction
“Yeah, because that's where the economic value is going to be created. That's also where the jobs are going to be created for the most part.”
04 / commitment
“I built a little dashboard and had the contacts loaded in and tracked it the same way I tracked sales and ultimately hit the fundraising targets.”
05 / uncertainty
“I think I'm still trying to work through, do I want to be an investor or do I want to be an operator?”
06 / recommendation
“Nick would be great on the podcast. I don't know if you've ever heard Nick speak, but Nick is incredible.”
07 / commitment
“Like I said, on the revenue side, I built a custom salesforce dashboard, which I don't think is common for congressional members.”
08 / evaluation
“My view remains that it's an unforgivable assault on the country, and it was led by the former president who was inspired by him.”
09 / preference
“I won't name the product because I can't endorse a product, but I found a particular software that I liked, that I used, and helped me track all that stuff.”
10 / evaluation
“I will admit, nobody can do that 100% of the time, or at least, I didn't feel like I could, because you only have so much political capital.”
11 / belief
“We could have done some things maybe in a bipartisan way that I think would have been smart.”
12 / belief
“I think the goal should be to get that number actually is pretty low, because it means your support is beyond just sort of wealthy folks in your area.”
13 / belief
“My view on name, image, and likeness—this goes back to my time at Ohio State—was it never made sense to me why college athletes were the only people in America who couldn't do anything with their name, image, and likeness.”
14 / belief
“I'm particularly bullish that America is going to lead the way because I think we have the best system for it.”
15 / evaluation
“My view is, the only way we can really do it on a global scale, is if we make the green alternatives so cheap and reliable that everyone everywhere would say, hey, this is the best thing to do for all sorts of reasons.”
16 / belief
“After that hour or however long it was, I thought, oh, my gosh, I feel like it's about getting red pilled or whatever, or orange peeled. That was my moment, where I thought to myself, okay, I think I've just learned something or stumbled onto something that can be unbelievably impactful for society, and helpful, and solving a lot of problems that I currently see in with the Internet, in our capital markets, with access to financial products and all these sorts of things.”
17 / belief
“You'd be making choices that I would argue aren't in the best interest of your entire student athlete body, so a lot of opportunity would go away.”
18 / belief
“I think we ended up raising roughly $600,000 in the first month, which was good.”
19 / belief
“If we want to look at causes, I think Coach Tressel is definitely on the short list of reasons why the tide turned on that rivalry.”
20 / belief
“I'm listening not just to my own questions, but I'm listening to how other people are processing the information. I'll say, okay, these two people over here, I think can work with on this.”
21 / evaluation
“There are basically fewer at play, and the existing districts are now more extreme. It was the worst of all worlds.”
22 / belief
“The way I think about some of the other stuff, again, like the Algos, hopefully people aren't saying, oh, he hates all Algos.”
23 / belief
“In that world, the way most schools would react, I suspect, is they would cut every single sport that doesn't make money, except for the ones they would have to keep for Title Nine purposes, so these athletic departments would shrink dramatically.”
24 / belief
“I would say let's focus on Fiat-backed stable coins, because I think we all actually agree on that.”
25 / belief
“I think our responsibility again at the governmental level is to make sure we're funding that R&D so that we get there.”
26 / belief
“I am hopeful that with respect to crypto though, that going forward, we'll be more thoughtful and do things like what I think is appropriate, which is to take sort of little bite sized chunks as we understand them, because the last thing you want to do is put something forward that you only sort of understand, and then ultimately, you cause a heck of a lot more problems than you intend to.”
27 / belief
“I think the takeaway that you saw nationally from the 2016 election was oh, my gosh, the country is embracing this terrible politics, this attitude, the nastiness, the vitriol, the anger, and the division.”
28 / belief
“We were like, an hour-and-a-half in and I turned to my mom and I was like, I think I'm ready to go.”
29 / belief
“I think that's really jump started everybody, because we've had a whole bunch of hearings as a result, and now there's real legislation being debated.”
30 / belief
“When I say there are people who have lost faith in America and why I think the real divide is who believes in American democracy and not, is I think on both sides, what I've seen increasingly is people inside the parties.”
31 / commitment
“Since then, they just said we'll make name, image, and likeness legal, but we won't enforce it.”
32 / belief
“Over the whole course of my term, I would say probably a third. I've done a ton of China work and that was the bulk of my first year in Congress.”
33 / belief
“I think my first AOL chat room, I was definitely not a teenager and shouldn't have been in there.”
34 / belief
“Whatever we need to do to attract builders, founders, engineers, and talent, to be in this country, to be educated, and to build the most critical technologies of the future and the supply chains that underpin them, I think is massively important.”
35 / prediction
“I do fear that the administration will take a more heavy-handed path, mainly because the SEC chair’s pretty hostile at times in his public comments on crypto.”
36 / belief
“I think we were 10. It may have been 6 senators, but in the house, there were 10 of us.”
37 / belief
“I honestly use a lot of the principles that I learned from them in terms of how to company build, around how to build a campaign, and how to build an apparatus around it.”
38 / belief
“I think you need to have the incentives put in place, such that as we transition away from fossil fuels and towards more clean energy, we're doing as much of that development and manufacturing here as possible, that we're mining the minerals here, and that we're building sustainable supply chains around that.”
39 / belief
“When I see people tear down our democracy, whether it's again, right or left, I think that's a dead giveaway to China.”
40 / prediction
“I think humanity will continue to bump up against the edges of its environment until it innovates a way to continue to spread and prosper.”
41 / evaluation
“For folks who don't know, I'm pretty sure when I was at Ohio State, I remember the stat that us in the University of Oregon by virtue of Nike using it as their testing ground and the incredible rabid fanhood for the university, I think the football program paid for every other sport, thus making the athletic department itself profitable and could contribute back to other things in the university.”
42 / prediction
“If you take it as a given that they're going to keep doing that as long as we're willing to keep buying it, then are we actually helping the sustainability goals by saying, hey, let's not produce here because that would be a way to contribute to solving the problem by being the leader and the first mover.”
43 / evaluation
“There's a Jensen Huang building at Stanford, and it's not because Stanford took equity at NVIDIA in the early days.”
44 / evaluation
“Famously, Stanford only took 1% of Google when it was a Stanford graduate research project, when most universities want 25%–50%-plus of anything that they call tech transfer. It's not even like, oh, it was your idea in the first place and we'd like the piece of it because it was developed here.”
45 / recommendation
“In Ohio, I always think the way to approach it is to leverage the existing assets that you have.”
46 / prediction
“I think there are a lot of people out there right now, always, who are listening who want to found companies, I think especially if these ideas that we've been talking about with Katherine, with you, of American Dynamism, resonate.”
47 / evaluation
“Which makes sense if you're not familiar with crypto, because that is the way that our USD-based infrastructure works, where if you have a brokerage account somewhere, you can just count on the fact that it's calculating all your taxes for you, it'll tell the IRS, and it'll send you a copy so that you know what to pay or at least you know what to include in your tax return.”