Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
8 of 9 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 28 Aug 2025 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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David Friedberg
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15 Mar 2020 – 2 Jul 2024
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Brad Gerstner
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31 Oct 2024 – 31 Oct 2024
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Marc Rowan
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thin
9 Apr 2025 – 9 Apr 2025
-141 d
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Jensen Huang
1
thin
7 May 2025 – 7 May 2025
-113 d
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Bill Gurley
4
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28 Aug 2025 – 21 Apr 2026
+0 d
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David Sacks
4
thin
13 Dec 2025 – 10 Jan 2026
+107 d
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Howard Marks
6
21 Feb 2026 – 18 Mar 2026
+177 d
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Chamath Palihapitiya
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thin
5 May 2026 – 5 May 2026
+250 d
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JD Vance
2
thin
21 Aug 2026 – 21 Aug 2026
+358 d
The chronologysourced and dated, oldest first
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David Friedberg
Friedberg warns that 48% of US employees work for businesses with 10 or fewer employees with only 2-4 weeks cash.
“48% of all US employees work for a business that's got 10 or fewer employees. Now, these businesses are not only retail.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg states farming is the single largest occupation globally by number of people employed.
“If you ask someone what's the number one job on Earth? The the the highest job in terms of total number of people is farming.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg estimates 30-40% of US workers are employed by or depend on government as primary customer.
“And I think a study I I tried to pull together all this data a couple months ago, but something north of like 30 or 40% of The US working force is touched by the government as a customer of their business, the primary customer of their business or as the employer of those individuals.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner observes companies can now cut tens of thousands of employees while increasing customer satisfaction, unprecedented historically.
“Never have has he seen or have I seen the ability for companies to take out 10,000 people and actually see customer satisfaction scores increase.”
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Marc Rowan
Rowan says the U.S. won't manufacture low-value goods like sneakers given 4% unemployment and other priorities.
“we are not going to make sneakers in The US. We have 4% unemployment. We're building all these other things.”
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Jensen Huang
Huang estimates modern agricultural technology could eliminate half a billion farming jobs worldwide.
“We estimated a number of years ago that if you took the most modern agricultural technology, that in the world you might eliminate a half a billion jobs of what's going on in farming, subsides, etcetera.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley warns bringing manufacturing jobs back may be futile as automation eliminates those positions.
“Like, if you wanna bring the jobs back there by the time you get the jobs back, there may not be any jobs. Like like, at one Because of automation.”
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David Sacks
Sacks cites November Challenger Gray report showing only 6,000 U.S. layoffs attributable to AI, down 53% from October spike.
“The number fell by 53% and only about 6,000 of the layoffs that were announced in November in the entire country were attributable to AI.”
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David Sacks
Sacks says AI accounts for only 4.7% of year-to-date layoffs, likely inflated since CEOs blame AI for poor performance.
“So only 6,000. And if you look at the year to date in the Challenger Gray report, AI has only accounted for 4.7% of total layoffs.”
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David Sacks
Sacks asserts AI has caused no meaningful job loss yet and has driven half of this year's 4% GDP growth.
“Not in any meaningful numbers. And in fact, AI has been responsible for about half of GDP growth this year. So GDP growth is about 4%.”
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David Sacks
Sacks argues AI will increase demand for knowledge workers by making code cheaper, following Jevons Paradox.
“So the amount of software generated in the economy was limited by that. I think it's gonna increase massively now because the cost of generating code is coming down so much.”
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Howard Marks
Marks notes AI could eliminate half of entry level jobs but questions whether productivity gains translate to profitability.
“You say that AI has the ability to eliminate half of entry level jobs. That was the whole conversation because then they cut to something else. But the point is that may be true.”
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Howard Marks
Marks notes CNN reported AI could eliminate half of entry level jobs while maintaining US GDP, raising profitability questions.
“And obviously if you can produce The US GDP and eliminate half the entry level jobs, it could be more profitable or certainly more productive.”
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Howard Marks
Marks says AI can eliminate a huge percentage of knowledge work, citing Block laying off 4,000 people.
“Clearly, it can eliminate a a huge percentage of of knowledge work. And you we saw Friday block 10,000 employees, let 40%, 4,000 people let go”
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Howard Marks
Marks says AI can eliminate a huge percentage of knowledge work, citing Block laying off 4,000 employees in one day.
“And you we saw Friday block 10,000 employees, let 40%, 4,000 people let go in one go, who who aren't needed anymore because AI can do it better and cheaper and faster.”
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Howard Marks
Marks cites Block laying off 4,000 employees in one day because AI can do their work better, cheaper, and faster.
“we saw Friday block 10,000 employees, let 40%, 4,000 people let go in one go, who who aren't needed anymore because AI can do it better and cheaper and faster.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley reports lawyers he spoke with have already drastically reduced paralegal staff due to AI.
“Paralegals are already under threat, and I have talked to lawyers that have drastically reduced the size of their paralegal force. I've talked to them. That has already happened.”
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Howard Marks
Marks cites Block eliminating 40% of its workforce in one day as evidence most people underestimate AI's impact.
“40% of the workforce gone in one day because AI could do the work cheaper and faster. So how many people in the world understand the potential import of that?”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley notes more bank tellers exist today than forty years ago despite ATMs.
“There's still people working in banks today despite the fact that the ATM There've been studies that say there's more bank tellers today than there were like forty years ago.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley notes radiologists have increased in number despite AI automation speeding up reading scans.
“I think there was someone at TED talking about the fact that the number of radiologists has gone up, not down, despite the fact that you can read these things so much faster.”
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Chamath Palihapitiya
Palihapitiya cites Verizon CEO's forecast that 30% of white collar jobs will disappear by 2030.
“He put out this very public forecast. You know, very smart guy, well regarded in business. And I think he said something like 30% of all white collar jobs will be gone by 2030.”
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JD Vance
Vance states 83,000 factory construction jobs have been added since Trump's inauguration day.
“factory construction employment has exploded. We've added 83,000 factory construction jobs just since inauguration day.”
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JD Vance
Vance says 29,000 manufacturing jobs have been created in 2026, reversing years of decline.
“We created more than 29,000 new jobs in the sector in 2026 so far, reversing years of decline in manufacturing employment.”
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Where they overlapsame programme, same subject
- All-In Podcast also carries David Friedberg and David Sacks on this subject, at different times.
- BG2 Pod also carries Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on this subject, at different times.
- CNBC Television also carries Howard Marks and Marc Rowan on this subject, at different times.