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Speaker 1: Today we're joined by Vivett Ramaswami, a supporter of Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: a former Republican presidential candidate himself, someone that's been active

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Speaker 1: not just on social media but on the ground. And

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Speaker 1: welcome to the program, mister Ramaswami. A simple question to start,

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Speaker 1: why is former President Trump the best candidate for the

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Speaker 1: technology industry and the bench capital industry that supports it.

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Speaker 2: Here, Look, I'll give you a simple answer to a

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Speaker 2: straight question you asked, which is that he is the

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Speaker 2: president in favor of mass deregulation and mass reform of

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Speaker 2: the administrative state. I think the administrative state and the

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Speaker 2: regulatory state is the single greatest impediment to innovation, to

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Speaker 2: new business formation, to business growth in this country. The

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Speaker 2: actions of the three letter agencies, who are never elected,

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Speaker 2: by the way, from the EPA to the FTC, to

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Speaker 2: the SEC to the FDA, you go straight down the list,

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Speaker 2: those three letter agencies are making most rules that govern

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Speaker 2: businesses in this country today. Those rules were never passed

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Speaker 2: by Congress by democratic elected representatives. The current Supreme Court,

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Speaker 2: which Donald Trump actually gave us much of the composition

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Speaker 2: of that court, has declared.

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Speaker 3: Many of those regulations unconstitutional.

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Speaker 2: And Donald Trump has made clear that he wants to

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Speaker 2: go in and not just incrementally tinker around the edges

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Speaker 2: of that bureaucracy, but really to shake it down to

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Speaker 3: That it should have been in the first place.

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Speaker 2: And so I think that's the case I would make

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Speaker 2: to technology investors, to entrepreneurs that Donald Trump is going

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Speaker 2: to be the president who stands for taming in that

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Speaker 2: regulatory state which currently acts as a wet blanket on

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Speaker 1: VIVET could I ask as an extension of that, is

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Speaker 1: there a specific area, be it crypto, be electric vehicles,

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Speaker 1: be it space that you feel former President Trump is

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Speaker 1: most focused in the list of priorities.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that he's more focused on an overall

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Speaker 2: American revival. All of those fit on the list. I

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Speaker 2: think energy is big on the list for Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Reviving the production of American energy, all forms of energy

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Speaker 2: where America can be the leader. Donald Trump favors it, drilling,

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Speaker 2: fracking areas where America can actually establish energy abundance. Sets

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Speaker 2: what Donald Trump favors, and especially in this era of

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Speaker 2: energy that's particularly important for the United States to remain competitive.

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Speaker 3: You think about baseload.

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Speaker 2: Power generation for the electric grid, coal and natural gas

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Speaker 2: are key inputs. A lot of democratic policy has been

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Speaker 2: hostile to both of those, anti fracting policies, anti coal policies.

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Speaker 2: By contrast, Donald Trump's pro energy policies are not just

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Speaker 2: good for bringing down energy prices, so that's important, but

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Speaker 2: also for powering and fueling the future generation of AI

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Speaker 2: based technology revolutions that are going to require cheap and

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Speaker 2: abundant energy inputs. So that's one example. But I could

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Speaker 2: go into each of the areas you named and to be.

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Speaker 3: Happy to do that.

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Speaker 4: We had a venture capitalist, well known founder in the

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Speaker 4: area of AI and social We had Read Hoffman on

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Speaker 4: the show yesterday. Now, he of course favors the other

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Speaker 4: side of the equation and Harris's run for the administration,

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Speaker 4: wanting consistency, wanting steady hand, but also is worried about

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Speaker 4: forms of retribution.

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Speaker 5: Can you just take a listen to what he said yesterday?

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Speaker 6: Sure, Trump and Trump presidency won. His early presidency has

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Speaker 6: shown a certain amount of grifter capitalism. It's like trying

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Speaker 6: to penalize his opponents using the instruments of state.

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Speaker 4: Will that be any penalization of those who've voiced against

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Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be no little retribution under Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: But I do find that common a little bit rich

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Speaker 2: coming from a Kamala Airas supporter. Where there's only one

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Speaker 2: president and administration in US history that is prosecuted or

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Speaker 2: political election, and it wasn't Donald Trump. It's the party

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 2: So I think this idea of a steady hand.

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Speaker 3: I also want to give some airtime to this.

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Speaker 2: The idea of Kamala Harris is going to be some

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Speaker 3: Questions about energy policy.

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Speaker 2: To help policy that have changed in a matter of months,

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Speaker 2: I don't think is a strong case for a.

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Speaker 3: So called steady hand.

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Speaker 2: And one more point, investors, and particularly I know there's

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Speaker 2: a big one that really matters. Kamala Harris stands by

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Speaker 2: changed her stance. She stands by her support for a

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Speaker 2: tax on unrealized capital gains. That means many entrepreneurs, technologists,

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Speaker 2: biotech entrepreneurs who may have paper gains in a private

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Speaker 2: don't actually have. That would stifle innovation across Silicon Valley

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Speaker 2: and a market focused audience, that's a big difference between

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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. You could be a single

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Speaker 4: I think many would feel at the moment that the

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Speaker 4: by a Harris campaign. And I'm just going to go

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Speaker 4: back to the technology focus, and I'm glad that you

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Speaker 4: went there for US Vivic because there is a technology

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Speaker 4: focus that is chips in particular.

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Speaker 5: You are currently sat in Ohio.

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Speaker 4: Ohio is going to be a beneficiary in many ways

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Speaker 4: of the chip sacked, billions of dollars going to building

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Speaker 4: concern that Donald Trump is against the chip sacked. He

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Speaker 4: voiced out vehemently against it on a podcast recently.

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Speaker 5: Do you worry about.

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Speaker 4: That perhaps being overrun changed in direction?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the reason I was against the chipsacked is

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Speaker 2: shouldn't have been there, hiring impediments such as many of

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Speaker 2: right here. There's also extra baggage and changing the way

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Speaker 2: So that's the problem with Washington, DC is every time

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Speaker 2: to foster semiconductor production in the United States, as I do.

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Speaker 2: Here's how we do it, mass deregulation that lifts those

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Speaker 3: That's my view on the matter.

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Speaker 1: Vivic, may I just jump in on that point on Nvidia.

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Speaker 1: In Video is not in isolation, but many of the

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll give you a base principle that I hope

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Speaker 3: Come from China.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't make any sense for our own military industrial base,

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Speaker 2: provide them. God forbid, We're in a conflict scenario, and

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Speaker 2: that's something that nobody wants for sure, but God forbid,

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Speaker 2: think it is sensible policy. And I don't care if

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Speaker 3: And I think that sensible policy.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, I think above all, one of the things

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Speaker 2: When it comes to these foreign policy dealings, he was

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Speaker 1: Mister Ramaswami, there was some interest in you when I

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Speaker 1: One user says, please ask him how much of his

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Speaker 1: own money was spent on his campaign. I think a

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Speaker 1: reference to your early run as a candidate. Has it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the answer visual public record. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: It was a little over thirty million dollars of my

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Speaker 2: My parents came to this country with no money. But

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Speaker 3: That gave me a sense of inspiration.

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Speaker 2: It gave me a sense of deep gratification and satisfaction

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Speaker 2: worth it. Absolutely, And I hope that our best days

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Speaker 3: Still ahead of us.

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Speaker 4: Some of those young people perhaps you're talking to, care

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Speaker 4: about Crypto, one of those companies that you formed, Strive

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Speaker 4: for us what you think the crypto policies will be

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Speaker 4: under Trump.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I'm incredibly proud of Strive as a

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Speaker 2: business I co founded. I stepped down as chairman before

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Speaker 2: I ran for president, but I'm so proud of the

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Speaker 2: team and what they've accomplished. Matt Cole, he's the CEO

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Speaker 2: who was formerly a successful bond portfolio manager at CalPERS,

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Speaker 2: is really leading stride with the vision for financial freedom,

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Speaker 2: which I'm so proud of.

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Speaker 3: What they've done.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to view on the future of crypto policy

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Speaker 2: is it's less related to helping one sector and more

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Speaker 2: related to just reviving the principles the country was founded on.

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Speaker 3: In the first place.

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Speaker 2: Unbridled innovation competition as the answer, but there should be

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Speaker 2: some regulation.

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Speaker 5: It should totally be unbridled.

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Speaker 2: Well, the first thing I would say is unbridled innovation.

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Speaker 2: What we really need is regulatory clarity. So I think

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Speaker 2: it is a sad state of affairs where you see

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Speaker 2: a paradigm of regulation by enforcement, where many participants in

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Speaker 2: the industry don't know what the rules are in the

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Speaker 2: first place. So we can debate what the rules are,

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Speaker 2: what they should be. I think that's a reasonable debate

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Speaker 2: to have. But what we can't have is a situation

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Speaker 2: where people are guessing at what those rules are. I'll

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Speaker 2: give you one example of that when the head when

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Speaker 2: Lead Commissioner of the SEC could not answer before Congress

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Speaker 2: whether ethereum was even a security.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it is and maybe it shouldn't be. But either way,

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Speaker 3: at least the industry deserves to know.

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Speaker 2: And so I think regulation in the first principle, whether

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Speaker 2: you're on the left or right, should be clarity, and

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Speaker 2: I think that's missing in this sector, as in so

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Speaker 2: many others today.

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Speaker 1: Vivet Ramaswami, thank you for coming back on Bloomberg Technology.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate your time.