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This Week in Startups · 2024-12-24 · 76 min · 15,089 words

Palantir's Valuation, VC's Go To Washington and Much More | E2065

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I think opt-in empire building is a great goal for our nation. I think our goal should be to get to a billion Americans and have America be the most populous and the most innovative country in the world. Now, how do you get to a billion from 350 million? You got to triple. And there's a certain amount of, you know, population growth through babies, but let's just say people aren't making a ton of babies.

So there's two ways to accomplish this. You got to immigrate people or you got to do a little uh empire building. Opt-in, of course. May maybe there's countries in Europe that would want to be maybe Greece wants to be part of the United States. Wouldn't that be great for me if Greece was the 51st state if they wanted to?

Why why Greece? Because I'm Greek. Because I'm Greek. And because we created, man, the most likely I mean we created democracy. America perfected it.

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