Gurley credits Pinker and others with shifting public perception on nuclear energy from negative to positive.
“Like like, the the the world has vilified this technology. It's amazing technology. It's clean technology.”
Gurley credits Pinker, Musk, and others for shifting nuclear energy perception from vilified to positive five years ago.
“Like like, the the the world has vilified this technology. It's amazing technology. It's clean technology. What Germany is doing is bad.”
Gurley argues regulation most often protects incumbents rather than constraining them, contrary to public perception.
“And so companies get big, they spend money lobbying, they spend time in Washington and they get laws written to help them rather than to constrain them.”
Gurley plans to study countries with less regulatory capture to understand their policies for his new institute.
“Want to, and this will be part of my new thing. I want to go study countries that have less of it and try and understand the policies.”
Gurley notes committee members fundraise across jurisdictions, which he finds inappropriate.
“One thing that's really amazing that most Americans probably don't realize is once your senator or congressman goes on a committee, they start fundraising in other jurisdictions.”
Gurley reports BYD executive challenged him to find government subsidies in their public company financials.
“We're we're a public company. Come show me the money I'm getting from the government. She's like, say, I'm getting nothing.”
Gurley argues blocking technology exports to China is not working and US needs to face reality.
“And I don't think blocking ASML or blocking AI technology or blocking anything is working. It's just not working.”
Gurley argues taxing unrealized capital gains would undermine entrepreneurial incentives and is nearly impossible to implement.
“this crazy idea to tax unrealized capital gains and how that in and of itself is not only almost impossible to implement, but also would undermine the very incentive that entrepreneurs have to go create businesses.”
Gurley says Silicon Valley's political shift is about entrepreneurship policy, not personal tax rates.
“Right? I do hear things around key policy areas that impact entrepreneurship that people care deeply about.”