Alex Karp interview

agre and I'm certainly with you on the overw stuff but if it is that constraining how come what did you say 86% of the American 87% okay then how come they we have been so successful if we're so sh uh we have the best immigrants we organize people the best way we we have a sense of fairness togetherness we we bring the most creative people here and that's why the companies develop here but you say we could be even better we could be even better right and what I also love about your philosophy is that you're not afraid to say America is still the good guys even though we've done horrible things everybody has we're human but have a little perspective I feel like that is what is so lacking today well look of course America like every great nation has done some really up things right right so that's obvious right but but look but we know they're messed up because we hold ourselves to a high standard and if you going to compare us which at the end of the day morality has to be slightly compared you're going to compare us to China Russia Iran who who else even aspires to these standards and by the way look at how our lives have changed we're roughly the same age when I was born half you know people had gays blacks people didn't have the rights you have now look at the progress we've made it's like in one lifetime is like magic it's amazing it's literally it's literally like magic and and no other society mean like I spent half my life in Germany it's a very interesting very developed Society you do do not have the integration you do not have the Innovation you do not have the fairness you don't have meritocracy most of the companies in Germany that are big are owned by families that own them 00 years earlier that you this is one country that produces this part of the problem and part of the reason why people don't stand up for America is they don't understand how magical it is to get these things to work and no other place does it at our scale with our diversity and different kinds of people and different kinds of thought and like in my case I like you know I was viewed as the Frankenstein monster I don't come from wealth and I get the opportunity to prove myself no one in this country cares how crazy you are if you deliver