David Sacks

“If it's that bad, Dario, it's your effing job... This is product liability 101”

“when you get David Sachs and Lena Kahn both on the same side... it's a really fun issue”

“There's no evidence of that. Quite the contrary. It's all been job gains... again, like what are we on now? O for four.”

“This is a doomer psyop and the ultimate target is open source... that is what an FDA will ultimately ban.”

“that is the mother of all product liability lawsuits.”

“Nike's North Star was very clear to me, which was mastery and excellence embodied through athletics.”

“David Sacks — Referenced as representing the optimistic end of the AI-jobs spectrum.”

“We did a financing earlier this year and then we extended it and brought in some strategic investors like yourself and David Sachs and Michael Dell and JP Morgan.”

“You have to build the best agent interface. And you've got to, I think, relax the idea that you're going to fully control the customer relationship”

“The 'AI capex is a bubble' and 'SaaS is dead' narratives getting shredded this morning. NVDA +8%, SFDC +20%.”

“Some critics of closed labs, like White House advisor David Sacks, suggested those fears were being fanned by the 'duopoly' of Anthropic and OpenAI.”

“Venture capital firm Craft Ventures, led by former White House official David Sacks, launched a significant $1 billion fund amid rising AI investment.”

“Venture capital firm Craft Ventures, led by former White House official David Sacks, launched a significant $1 billion fund amid rising AI investment.”

“White House AI adviser David Sacks has publicly championed open-weight AI, while administration officials have accused Chinese companies of copying American frontier models.”

“I think it would be a tragic mistake if the government were to take action against the open source ecosystem. That would do nothing but hurt America's position in this AI race. It would backfire badly.”

“Former Trump administration AI and crypto Czar David Sacks denounced Ball's comments and the 'weaponization of regulatory uncertainty' as 'completely unacceptable.'”

“Stripe Wants PayPal... Who better than Stripe? And maybe Jack Dorsey plays a role here... I think it's a shot across the bow for Visa and MasterCard.”

“AI giant Anthropic is pursuing a strategy of one-upmanship that encourages states to impose increasingly tougher AI guardrails rather than a line around a single set of regulations... Brand yourself as a safe AI company. Number two, ban unsafe AI. Three, profit.”

“One month ago, OpenAI published a blog post called 'PRC-linked Influence Operations are targeting AI debates in the US'... China is behind a lot of these influence campaigns to shape US attitudes on AI data centers. It makes sense. If they can stop us from building this necessary infrastructure, then that's a way for China to win the AI race.”

“When an employee leaves their previous company and joins the new company, just don't take anything with you. The only thing you can bring to your new job is what's in your head. Your memories. That's fine. Whatever's in your head, you're allowed to take. But never leave with anything else. No thumb drives. No CD drives. No documents. No nothing. Just what's in your head is okay.”

“As soon as it was acquired back in 2002, they basically blew out all the founders, all the founding DNA... Meg Whitman had worked at Procter and Gamble and Disney and she'd spent like eight years at Bain... They saw the founders, the founding generation at PayPal as just a problem... And then that's what created the PayPal mafia.”

“He started with Karp's idea, but then he kind of provided a recipe or roadmap for how enterprises should operationalize that... enterprises have to establish a real trust boundary with private evals, proprietary learning loops inside the tenant, decoupled orchestration, and the explicit right to fine-tune their own outputs.”

“An SRO, again, a self-regulatory approach would be infinitely better than creating a new government agency that I think would rapidly become a DMV for AI... The government does not have the expertise to evaluate AI models. The criteria are changing too rapidly.”

“Daniel Lurie is the best mayor we've had in decades. So I think he's doing a very good job within the constraints that San Francisco presents.”

“The Biden era's "regulation through enforcement" approach actively drove the crypto industry offshore and created a hostile environment for entrepreneurs.”

“Sam Altman said that by 2028 he expects to have automated researchers... I think all those claims tend to be like recruiting ideas as opposed to actual predictions.”

“NVIDIA chips are better. They're much more power efficient, but at the rack level, at the system level, Huawei could get the job done with these Ascend chips and Cloud Matrix.”

“Grok releases new model, it leapfrogs ChatGPT and then ChatGPT releases something new, they leapfrog. So they're all like very competitive and close to each other. And I think that's a good thing.”

“I saw Andrej Karpathy gave an interview where now all of a sudden he's re-underwritten this and he says AGI is at least a decade away. He's basically saying that reinforcement learning has its limits.”

“I like the observations that Balaji made recently... one was AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic... And then the other one was just his observation that AI was middle-to-middle, whereas humans are end-to-end, and therefore the relationship is pretty synergistic.”

“After Sam Bankman-Fried did what he did with FTX and got sent to jail, he was like a big effective altruist and he had made pandemics like their big cause. They needed a new cause and they got behind this idea of X risk.”

“During the Biden years, you had an SEC chairman who took an approach which has been called regulation through enforcement, which basically means you just get prosecuted. They don't tell you what the rules are. You just basically get indicted.”

“Chris Wright is the secretary of energy and is very good on all this stuff. And I think he's working on unraveling all of this so we could actually do this.”

“Currently we have a great SEC chairman, Paul Atkins, and if we could be sure that Paul Atkins and a person like Paul Atkins was always at the SEC forever, we wouldn't necessarily need legislation because they're already in the process of implementing much better rules.”

“He was basically released thanks to the zero bail policies of Chesa Boudin, who was then the district attorney who he got recalled. There was a huge outcry. I mean, even in San Francisco for there to be a recall of a DA.”