House Minority Leader Jeffries & SpaceX Investor Mark Pincus 6/25/26

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CNBC

Investing, Business, Business News, News

4.2 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

After New York’s primaries, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) discusses the future of the Democratic Party in a midterm election year. Plus, Zynga founder and Reinvent Capital partner Mark Pincus has written a book, “Life at the Speed of Play.” Pincus discusses his thesis of how to build successful products from good ideas, as well as his investments in SpaceX and Anthropic. Pincus is still waiting for the “technology treasure” invention of the AI age. Plus, CNBC’s Kristina Partsinevelos explains the surge in Qualcomm and Micron shares. Kristina Partsinevelos - 8:41 Mark Pincus - 19:08 House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries - 36:40 In this episode: Hakeem Jeffries, @RepJeffries Kristina Partsinevelos, @KristinaParts Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.1	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.7	Who's in the middle? Really?
0:11.4	A question we can't get away from today.
0:13.5	Talking about the politics of tech policy with Mark Pinkus,
0:16.7	the Zinga founder and entrepreneur,
0:18.1	is out with a new book on the speed of life.
0:21.7	These unicorns, what I call Internet treasures, have not been invented yet.
0:27.1	And a Democratic primary that shook up a few incumbents in New York City
0:31.2	in favor of candidates more and proudly on the left.
0:35.4	The Democrats leader in the House, Brooklyn's Hakeem Jeffries.
0:38.3	The Democratic Party at its best, the country at its best, believes in a strong floor and no ceiling.
0:45.3	In other words, you work hard, you play by the rules in this country, you should be able to live in affordable life, a comfortable life, at minimum, a middle-class life.
0:55.1	Plus, memory chip stock surge.
0:58.0	Does the AI build-out get to a point where it's built out?
1:02.1	Are we going to keep going until we create God?
1:04.9	Does it make a market?
1:06.5	So you're saying this time is different?
1:08.8	Yes.
1:11.6	It's Thursday, June 25th.
1:14.0	Squawk Pod begins right now.
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