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Pax Silica: Inside the Trump Administration’s Tech Strategy with US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg

aired May 14, 2026 · 37.0m
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Summary

We're not going to do government-operated supply chains because that's not how we shine as a country. Our superpower is really our private sector and our companies.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of know, really, think, including: Our superpower is really our private sector and our companies.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And so the answer has been trying to work in lockstep with our private companies and our builders to build platforms that are commercially viable and that can ultimately live outsi
  2. 02And about a week and a half ago, we basically did the first big, what would be the tech equivalent of a product rollout, where we announced a forward deployed industrial base with
  3. 03It's a third of the size of Manhattan to do a very large industrial build-out that's one of a kind that helps combine the predictability and certainty of the American common law sy
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