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Search complete. 48 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Private sector".
Sep 9, 2026
YoshiiHOST
Something that I, I've heard you say recently is how important it is for us to be able to captive breed, you know, these animals because, you know, obviously a lot of, especially turtles, you know, people are catching them for the general trade, whether if it's the food market, the pet trade, and stuff like that.
YoshiiHOST
Where do you see the common ground with the, you know, conservation and, like, the captive breeding private sector?
Eric GoodeGUEST
Are you talking about within the US?
ChuckeyHOST
Yeah.
Eric GoodeGUEST
So back to your question about captive breeding.
Eric GoodeGUEST
Yeah, I, but I think it's great if you can captive breed and take the pressure off of poaching, you know, and, and we've played a huge role in obviously trading, uh, reptiles out of other countries around the world, and if you can do it well.
Eric GoodeGUEST
And really, you know, the main thing to learn from Monsters of God is the private sector should be able to demonstrate that we can be better than the zoos, better than AZA zoos.
Eric GoodeGUEST
'Cause AZA zoos, as good as they are, it's a job for the keepers.
Charity DeanGUEST
Um, in June of 2020, I did not wanna quit my job.
Charity DeanGUEST
Uh, my identity was wrapped up in being a public servant, you know? Um, in fact, to my great embarrassment, [laughs] I shouldn't say this, um, but I used to call the private sector the dark side.
Charity DeanGUEST
I love Star Wars.
Charity DeanGUEST
To my great shock-
Charity DeanGUEST
To, to my great shock, in 2020 I sat down and said, "Why have I failed to build this in government? Why has philanthropy failed to build this? Why has academia failed to build this?" And again, to my great shock, the question was, why hasn't anyone tried capitalism, the power of capitalism, where you're default dead and have to build a tech company, uh, while actually selling the product with the back pressure of constant death? When faced with massive oblivation and death right around the corner, you'd be surprised how motivating that can be.
Charity DeanGUEST
Uh, the World Health Organization has no such motivation, um, and no such back pressure, uh, nor does government, nor does philanthropy, nor does academia.
Charity DeanGUEST
So I'm not saying this, you know, that the private sector is the only way to build this tooling.
Charity DeanGUEST
I'm just saying from my view, company has succeeded.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
After all, if these services are so valuable, why does no private market exist for them? For instance, the politicians of Knox County, Tennessee, have spent $2 million on flock cameras and related costs.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
would the taxpayers of the county voluntarily pay that kind of money to be spied on if they had the choice many locals suspected the answer would be no which is why the knox county sheriff secretly conspired to spend the money without informing the public The Garrett Langleys of the world would have us believe this counts as entrepreneurship and private sector commerce.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
Indeed, a great many tech founders and CEOs are essentially adjuncts of the state and rely heavily on government contracts.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
Elon Musk's career is based largely on subsidized loans and government contracts for his private, federally subsidized company, SpaceX.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
Moreover, when governments use contractors to carry out the edicts of government agencies, they are better able to obfuscate the details of how the money is actually spent.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
Government contracting is now a major source of government spending, and there are more taxpayer-funded contractors than there are federal civil servants.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
From local governments to the feds, government is being outsourced to the private sector, but it's only getting bigger, more expensive, and more powerful.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
Anyone who has tried to get a handle on government spending and where it all goes can attest to the fact that government contracting makes it far more difficult to track what exactly taxpayer dollars are used for.
Piyush TiwariGUEST
And that is something which the policymakers would have to place it in front of their audience and commit more resources to it.
Piyush TiwariGUEST
Private sector would also play its role in terms of bringing financing together or building those buildings which are net zero.
Piyush TiwariGUEST
These things are important and we'll see more and more happening in the future.
Dean IrvineHOST
You mentioned there that governments, policymakers need to do more.
Piyush TiwariGUEST
There are incentives such as feed-in tariff, which Japan uses for agriculture, or the payment for ecosystem services, which agricultural state in India, Punjab, uses it to incentivize farmers to avoid stubble burning.
Piyush TiwariGUEST
And green bonds, they are all effective ways to mobilize non-state actors.
Piyush TiwariGUEST
Then there are public-private partnerships where public sector and private sector can come together in order to develop energy-efficient net zero type of infrastructure.
Piyush TiwariGUEST
And Indonesia has an example where they provide dual guarantee, which makes public-private partnership projects bankable.
Rob ArnottGUEST
How often This is a fun question for a lot of the folks in your audience.
Rob ArnottGUEST
How often do you look forward to your next interaction with government? And compare that with how often do you look forward to your next trip to a favorite restaurant or to a shopping mall? The good stuff in society comes mostly from the private sector.
Rob ArnottGUEST
The public sector is absolutely needed.
Rob ArnottGUEST
But because there's no accountability, it'll do things badly.
William LeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If retail sales, uninduced by swap schemes and policy schemes to boost retail sales today versus tomorrow, uh, without any kind of scheme like that, if retail sales starts to pick up, uh, and employment and income starts to pick up, I say, "Wow, they turned the economy around."
Terry WuHOST
What about China's private sector? Aside from consumer spending, that's the other area that the West believes could offer a cure to China's current economic problem.
Terry WuHOST
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Terry WuHOST
By the way, China Watch is a weekly show with new episodes every Monday evening.
Terry WuHOST
[upbeat music] Remember what we said about the man above the ocean.
Terry WuHOST
He would need to fight the gravity of the rock and, at the same time, tell a good story to investors that the rock is not going to be the problem because it's not a permanent fixture.
Terry WuHOST
Back to China's private sector, which the West believes is a key cure for China's weak consumption.
Terry WuHOST
Justin Lin's point is this.
Harry CampbellHOST
Well, I definitely wanna come back to those core four and ask you a little bit about, uh, the AV side of things.
Harry CampbellHOST
Before we jump in to the AV policy and, uh, discussion side of things, I do wanna ask you about your experience in the private sector because, uh, obviously I think you're a bit unique in jumping from private to public policy.
Harry CampbellHOST
Uh, I don't know if most people go, which way most people go, or if they go back and forth.
Harry CampbellHOST
But was there anything that surprised you, going from working at companies like Lyft and Amazon, uh, to working for the state? You mentioned that, you know, quite busy, sort of that startup.
Dennis FisherHOST
There's all kinds of those things coming from this White House, and most of them I completely ignore.
Dennis FisherHOST
But, uh, this one caught my eye because it has to do with the always fun topic of getting the private sector involved in going after cybercrime groups, essentially.
Dennis FisherHOST
Um, which is, as you me- as you said, it's something that, like, hacking back has been a topic for, like, th- probably 30 years since cybercrime started and since government intrusion started and that sort of thing.
Dennis FisherHOST
But it, you know, in various flavors and various inflections over the years.
Dennis FisherHOST
Let's go do something to them," as, like, kind of a one-for-one reprisal situation.
Dennis FisherHOST
That's not at all what this is about.
Dennis FisherHOST
This is much more of, like, "Hey, we recognize that we're not all-powerful when it comes to tracking, surveilling and, you know, imposing consequences on these large cybercrime groups." The private sector has a lot of those capabilities that...
Dennis FisherHOST
And frankly, like, the private sector can, in some cases, do things the government is not really allowed to do or isn't supposed to be doing.
Marshall ShepherdHOST
Before I talk to you about sort of the recent work that has, uh, been, uh, besides your book, that has been occupying your time, you did mention earlier that you consult for various private entities.
Marshall ShepherdHOST
And without going into the specifics of who those are, I, I would love to hear your sort of, you know, thoughts on the role of the private sector in the weather, climate, wa- water enterprise because I think, you know, in our earlier parts of our career, the federal sector along with the private sector, uh, partnered, but I think a lot of people saw many of these roles as federal only.
Marshall ShepherdHOST
But that, that landscape has changed, and I remember seeing it change under my watch as AMS president.
Marshall ShepherdHOST
So what are your thoughts there?
Tim GallaudetGUEST
And that's-- we want more data because then we're gonna be able to use AI for predictive purposes, and all AI models require large amounts of data.
Tim GallaudetGUEST
So you have this growing ecosystem that is going to, is going to d- is doing good by improving prediction, um, uh, skill and, and it, and just awareness o-of our environment, uh, again, from the sea floor to space.
Tim GallaudetGUEST
So I think, I think the growth in private sector companies that are monitoring and measuring and predicting our planet are, is a great thing, and that's why I'm heavily involved with some of these players.
Marshall ShepherdHOST
Yeah.