REFORM TECH

“If I could have one policy, one blanket, if I had a magic wand, one policy, it'd be mandatory national service. If you look at the lowest levels of young adult depression in the West, it's two countries. It's Israel and Singapore. And despite all the existential threats facing Israel, they what does mandatory national service do? It gives you the sense that you're serving the agency of something bigger than yourself.”

“Everyone you admire, everyone you think has killed it, the only thing I can guarantee you is there were a ton of nos in getting to one of the top 10 podcasts in the world, getting to a person as a partner who's higher character and hotter than you, getting to make more money than you would have ever guessed that person would have made. The only thing that got them there was the willingness and the endurance to to anticipate no.”

“It’s about, at some point, can you honestly look in the mirror and say, I add surplus value. I create more tax revenue and jobs than I absorb. Everyone absorbs tax revenue if you're in America. I listen to more people complain than I complain. Right? I love more people than love me.”

“I believe that the wealth that you create is not for yourself. You have to also share it with communities, with society, in whichever way you want to. That's your obligation, your prerogative. But don't just hoard that wealth for yourself. I think that wealth goes much further when you spread it in big societal impact.”

“If I could have one policy, one blanket, if I had a magic wand, one policy, it’d be mandatory national service. It gives you the sense that you’re serving the agency of something bigger than yourself. It gives you purpose. You’re handling dangerous equipment. It’s the great equalizer. You don’t care that this gay kid is totally different than you. You respond to his or her character and competence because if you’re getting fired on, you don’t give a shit how rich their father is.”

“The only thing I can guarantee you is there were a shit ton of no's in getting to one of the top 10 podcasts in the world, getting to a person as a partner who's higher character and hotter than you, getting to make more money than you would have ever guessed that person would have made. The only thing that got them there was the willingness and the endurance to anticipate no.”

“I just think the best antidepressant is moving weights, building some bulk, or running far. I’ve jokingly said every man under the age of 30 should aspire to be able to walk in any room and know if shit got real, they could kill and eat everybody or outrun them. Like, there’s different forms of fitness. You can be fast. You can be flexible. You can be strong. But there’s no excuse.”

“Unfortunately, we have attached 40% of the market value of the S and P to incendiary content that tears us apart. And the result is people now don't believe that Russian troops pouring over the border in Ukraine is their enemy. They believe that their neighbor with a Trump sign is their enemy or someone who doesn't believe your ideology around gender politics is your enemy.”

“The Southern Poverty Law Center in a massive sweeping indictment has been charged with allegations of fraud and using the banking system to perpetrate that fraud. I just want to talk about a couple of brief things here. The Southern Poverty Law Center themselves advertise to raise money to dismantle violent extremist groups for a period of at least a decade.”

“We are literally transferring trillions of dollars from young people to old people. And we wonder why young men feel anxious when they are disparate. But 75% of women say economic viability is key to a mate. It's only 25% of men.”

“Then the biggest risk I took was I said Mylan said, why don't we form a JV? And I said, no. I don't like JVs. Let me buy you out. And that was the biggest risk I took. I said, let me buy you out. And I made the biggest acquisition in Indian pharmaceutical history because nobody has acquired anything for $3,300,000,000. And today, we are already seeing that we are in a position to very comfortably pay down that acquisition debt that we have embarked on.”

“we caught a ship yesterday that had some things on it which wasn't very nice, a gift from China perhaps. I don't know. But I was a little surprised because I have a very good relationship and I thought I had an understanding with President Xi, but that's all right.”

“Lufthansa planning to cancel 20,000 short haul flights to save jet fuel. 20,000 short haul flights to save on jet fuel, and that's not just the only story. United Airlines slash in 2026 forecast as fuel cost surge, and that story leads to the next one.”

“The dating apps have an incentive in you finding a bigger, better deal. And the genders have done an amazing job of convincing each other it’s the other’s fault. And I think one of the big foci that need to be really pay more attention to is what I call renewal of alliances. The integration of female and male energy, the ability to find someone you want to procreate with, to build something together, that is the most rewarding thing in life.”

“A new zip held survey of more than 1000 workers found 47% of Zoomers. The generation ages 14 to 29 said coverage like for drugs like Ozempic or Wegoi, Wegovi, how do you pronounce it? Wegovi? Am I saying it correctly? Wegovi. Wegovi would sway their decision between two job offers.”

“I think they should study and and thoughtfully consider lowering their drinking age back to 18. I live in The UK and see by your face where those are going. I live in The UK. Military drinking age 18. I mean, I like some of the things that I've been doing. Well, if you're in the military, you can drink under the age of 21 because the idea is that if you're gonna die for your country, you should be able you're adult enough to order a drink.”

“The other one is also about making a difference to health care now that I'm on this path of affordable access to life saving medicines. That to me is a very, very important and powerful purpose that I am pursuing because I really believe that, yes, we are doing wonderful things with science and coming up with wonderful new drugs and therapies, but how many people can afford it around the world? I am based in India, which I'm glad I am because I realized how little access patients in India have to new therapies and drugs.”

“America isn't about identifying a superclass of rich kids and the freakishly remarkable. It's about betting on unremarkable kids. So, this is what we need to do. We need if you're a university and you have more than a billion dollar endowment and you're not growing your freshman class faster than population, you're a hedge fund with classes and you should lose your tax free status.”

“First and foremost, I really think, Gautam, everything is about short term. We all keep talking about long term, but we don't know what is in store in the long term. We just don't know how this business will look in ten years' time. So I keep focusing on five years and say, look. Let's be the best at what we can do over five years. And as we approach the end of that five year period, we'll know what the next five years is going to look like.”

“First and foremost, I realized that it's easier to develop people when they come fresh from universities and shape their minds rather than try and take very experienced talent from the same sector or the industry because they come with a mindset. They come with a set of this is how we did it there kind of a attitude. And when you're trying to develop a very innovative culture, they find it much more difficult to adapt to what you're trying to do than, say, people who come from universities with an open mind.”

“Well, I expect to be bombing because I think that's a better attitude to go in with. But we're ready to go. I mean, the military is raring to go. They are absolutely incredible. I built the military in my first term. I'm using it now.”

“The Senate should not be aiding and abetting Donald Trump's illegal takeover of the Fed by installing his chosen sock puppet as chair. It's an invitation for corruption and for economic catastrophe. We have the power to stop it and we should be using that power.”

“But I found for the first time, there was a researcher at Sloan Kettering who's using AI to look at tumor morphology in scans before and after treatment and then using AI to see who responded well, who did not respond well. And if now a person comes with this to this, scan with the where you know what the tumor morphology is like, you can actually decide what treatment that patient should get. Now these are the uses of AI which I find fascinating. Not just, oh, I can read out your scan in five minutes and give it to you.”

“A male from a self esteem standpoint, from a sexual currency standpoint, from the esteem of the tribe or the society is gonna be disproportionately evaluated based on your economic viability. So from an early age, try and have a plan. You may not have to stick to that plan. I’m not saying you gotta go to Harvard and go to work at Goldman Sachs, but maybe you’re gonna go to trade school, learn how to install energy efficient HVAC, but you just need a plan.”

“40% of the S and P is 10 companies whose sole mission is to monetize your time. And unfortunately, they’re not bad people, but what they’re doing has resulted in a small group, a cohort of men, it’s not small, millions of men who are evolving into a new species of asocial asexual males who wake up at the age of 30 thinking they’ve had a frictionless life living at home, obese, anxious, and depressed, having never developed the skills that they need to do well professionally, personally.”

“I came across a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland who basically said, why don't you join me and start this company in India? And I thought, why not? I have nothing to lose, so let me give it a go. I was interested in biotechnology, and I realized that India had no biotech industry. And I thought, wow. I think this is something I need to do for India. And that's how I ventured into biotech and started with making enzymes.”

“I loosely break it down into three very reductive qualities. And that is the first is to be a provider. I think every young man should have a plan and have an assumption that at some point, he will have to be the economic leader provider for his family. The second is protector. If you think about the most masculine jobs, fireman, cop, military, the notion is you develop skills and strengths such that you can protect others. I find that’s the most rewarding thing in the world. And then finally procreator.”

“I think it's really that problem solving culture, Gautam. If you give up a problem to an ordinary person with who doesn't come from great credentials, but you give them something which they can crack, something they can solve, they become far more confident. They have a sense of achievement, and then they take on bigger and bigger problems. That's what makes them extraordinary, finally.”

“The ultimate expression of masculinity is to get involved in the life of a child that isn't yours. And not enough men are doing it. Even really successful men. They're not stepping up. They're not helping young men. And the easiest thing to do, the most and it's so rewarding.”

“Tim Cook has stepped down as Apple CEO and John Turner's named successor. Tom, is this a good thing or a bad thing? Personally, I like Tim Cook. I know a lot of people have some criticism of him, but we'll talk about Tim Cook as the new CEO, Tim Cook leaving and the new CEO coming in.”

“Now the VCs are not doing their bit because I was just telling, the government today. I said because our regulatory pathways are so ad hoc and unpredictable. So no VC wants to invest in a good idea or a new idea because they don't know how long it will take to develop that idea and shape that idea and take it to the market. In India, we are stuck at just the early stage of government funding, and we are unable to move the wheel, if you know what I mean. So I think we really need to focus on how do we unleash this innovation potential by bringing about regulatory reforms.”

“So I loosely break it down into three very reductive qualities. And that is the first is to be a provider. I'm not talking about the way the world is, but the way the world should be. I think every young man should have a plan and have an assumption that at some point, he will have to be the economic leader provider for for his family.”

“Economic hypergamy is still an absolutely full, full force. So if we don't figure out a way to level up all young people economically such that there's more pass for economic viability for young men, I think it's just gonna tear at our society.”

“Number one, just at 4.25 this morning, less than five hours ago, three ships were hit. Two of them were seized by Iran. One of them is Panamanian ship. The other one is a Greek ship. And they've been seized by Iran.”