Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239

The trade wars will create a massive drop in prosperity in the US. There is next to zero chance that the missions that they have declared will be successful because the only way to get two trillion out of the budget would be to massively reduce the deficit and reduce defense spending. We're not reaching the upper end of LLM. The next large LLM that's trained with a larger computer will still have new magic in it. The scale game is still playing.

Ready to go? (instrumental music plays) Reid, I am so excited for this. It's so special to have you in person again. Thank you for being here.

Always a pleasure. I look forward to this.

Now listen, I know you have some news, so I'd love to just start with some of the news and let you start with that.

So, look, obviously there's been a, uh, a meme because as I was talking about with my friends, um, that, you know, obviously I, I, I am still extremely hopeful for American prosperity. I will remain living in Seattle, Washington. It's my residence. But, uh, when I was talking to friends, I said, "Look, I'd love to spend more time in the UK." That became a whole meme with the New York Times saying, "He's moving." And it's like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm, I'm still based in Seattle, Washington. But of course, I come to the UK twice a year already anyway, and here I am.

And you thought, "You know what? I'd love to see Harry-"

Yes.

"... two more times a year."

Yes, exactly.

Yeah. I, I totally get it.

Yes.

My mother thinks the same.

Yes. By the way, I, I, I will commit here to being on air with you twice a year. (laughs)

(laughs) Do you know what? This is worth it already.

Yes, yes.

Um, can I ask, how do you think about your future involvement in US politics? Like, just diving right in.

Yeah.

You were very active-

Yes.

... last election cycle.

So look, I think one of the things that it's a responsibility of Americans to do, including myself of course, is you try to make whatever administration as successful as possible for the people of America, for the country, for the industry. I will be doing that. I will be investing in businesses. Um, I will be, uh, you know, kind of getting new American businesses generated. Um, and so I will be doing those things. Obviously in the next administration, um, they don't wanna have me helping them. (laughs) Right? I won't be, uh, involved in any of the activity that's, that, that, that the administration is doing. Um, and actually, you know, obviously I anticipate, unfortunately, I'll probably be critical of some of the things the administration's doing. I hope to help do as many of the things that are, like, reduce regulation, increase energy for AI, have, uh, AI companies be prosperous for America and around the world. I'll be doing all that kinda stuff. But on the other hand, you know, uh, I suspect that I will have some things that I'm still an opponent of.