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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World Sep 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 59:11 Harry Stebbings Chamath said on X recently that, you know, it's become too transactional, it's too financial. 2 times in the scene

Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive Aug 29, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:02:57 Harry Stebbings Mission Aligned goes contra what Chamath has got a lot of heat over the weekend for saying, which was like, Silicon Valley has been to become too money centric, and that's now a problem. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:24:57 Harry Stebbings Will Chamath be successful with his, I can't remember, the, the, the, the, I, I think that, uh, 2 times in the scene

The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:14 Harry Stebbings Open source in the last, I would say three months, we've all realized is actually accelerating so fast, and the capabilities have increased to such an extent that it's not comparable, quite, but it's getting 90% as efficient with, you…

Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:22 Harry Stebbings That might be surprising, but like, Chamath came out and said that, hey, when he uses open source, it's 14 to 16 x cheaper.

Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 2, 2026 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 58:02 Harry Stebbings Uh, Chamath Palihapitiya raises a hundred and thirty five million for his AI startup, eight zero nine zero or 8090, whatever he calls it. 18 times in the scene

Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 18, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:44 Harry Stebbings There's Thrive, there's Chamath's numbers, there's Gary Tan on bullshit ARR, there's SBF, the greatest ambassador of our generation.

Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 33:31 Harry Stebbings And then Chamath also reportedly made nine hundred and fifty million dollars to which he responded on Twitter. 6 times in the scene

"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:39 Harry Stebbings Jerry Murdoch on the show said from Insight the other day, uh, not me, but like overheard from my portfolio, um, no one's using Cursor anymore, everyone's using Claw Code, we just saw Chamath tweet last night, we're gonna have to move off… 2 times in the scene

Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 29, 2026 · 2 mentions

Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12:43 Harry Stebbings We, we, we've seen, uh, Chamath say that now a trillion, I think it was reported seven hundred billion of two trillion now is gone already.
  • ▶ 1:20:59 unnamed speaker Um, and so I don't have the same perspective as Chamathana's, but I do think everyone's mostly missing this point, which is that this is not a one-time thing.

Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 8, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18 Harry Stebbings Uh, Chamath obviously coming out as one of the big winners.
  • ▶ 8:38 Jason Lemkin So this was also Chamath betting way early, way ahead of all this on an S tier leader and it paying off big this time.
  • ▶ 14:27 Rory O'Driscoll But you're right, there was only one classic Silicon Valley firm, and ironically, it was happening just as that firm was blowing up and becoming a non-traditional Silicon Valley firm, becoming a Chamath private office.

OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2025 · 3 mentions

Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:17:21 unnamed speaker Um, but the, like, SoFi was an interesting company, very differentiated, has gone on to be Tremat's only successful SPAC and, um, you know, a perfectly great, successful public company.

20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader Sep 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:42 Alex Schultz And that central growth team had analytics and marketing with me before it was analytics and marketing with Chamoth. 2 times in the scene

Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 21, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 19:30 Harry Stebbings And Chamath announced his new SPAC today, and in the prospectus it says if they do lose their entire capital, they will embody the adage from President Trump that there can be no crying in the casino. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:35 Jason Lemkin I only know Chamath from a distance back as a founder, watching him back in the day. 3 times in the scene

Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 3, 2025 · 1 mention

Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2025 · 4 mentions

Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2025 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings I just want to start with diving in actually on the deep end on a series of Chamath tweets, and Chamath basically said, hey, uh, TVPI is bullshit vanity metric. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:21 Sam Lessin But like, I do think like when you come back to this, like, this is why I believe the Chamath line, unfortunately, and it's going to get clipped and I'm going to be upset about it, but like, whatever.

20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta Apr 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:41 Mayur Gupta Of course, it was planted back in the days of Facebook with Chamath and that team.

a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:57 Harry Stebbings But do you think so, like, when you look at, I always use this as an example, when you look at the transience of news and reputations, you know, Chamath on All In said about the, you know, Uyghurs and it being below his line. 2 times in the scene

Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:53 Shervin Pishevar I think, I think during the, you know, I, I was an early, um, person to come out and support Trump, and I co-hosted David Sachs' fundraiser with Chamath back in, uh, June six, um, and publicly endorsed Trump, and, you know, and most of my,…

Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 17, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:13 Danny Rimer The first call was to Facebook, and so Owen Van Nara and Chamath came to London, and Gideon, and they presented, was the first company that presented, and we offered them what we thought was an incredible term sheet, which was to put in…

Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:50 Des Traynor Um, and like, I think it was like Shammat had this phrase, and he said in 2018, 2019, uh, giving a dollar to a startup was just a really lossy way of giving it through to Amazon, Facebook, or Google for, for like hosting or acquisition.

Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:42:16 Harry Stebbings If you'd project, I think it was Chatham, I think on one show, said, like, Ventures is a game of upside maximization.

Jennifer Hyman: Rent The Runway's Journey to $1.7B IPO; Lessons from Beyoncé & Estée Lauder | E1031 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 28, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:49 Jennifer Hyman Because there was a culture and with the big personality attached to it, Chamath, at Facebook,

Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 25, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:15:30 Emil Michael It used to be a backwater financial product, and Chamath brought it to be mainstream, and I think it's just gonna retreat back to being a backwater financial product. 2 times in the scene

Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 10, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 32:43 Harry Stebbings I think it was Chamath on the panel that you and Gurley and Jake Allen and Sachs did together who said, you would never be investing in this period of uncertainty with valuations being so transient and fluid because it's almost… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:10:17 Brad Gerstner So I, I would say, um, you know, I don't have as many cashmere sweaters as Chamath, um, but I, but I, but I do enjoy having a good time.

Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 24, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:38 Henri Pierre-Jacques So I'm not, I'm not a big reader, um, I'm a big podcast listener, and right now I'm definitely obsessed with, uh, with All In, with Chamath and Jason, and I listen to it every Saturday.

Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 30, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:40 Harry Stebbings and I was chatting to Chamath about not exiting Slack and like the haircut that he took on the back of that.

20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu Nov 17, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:45 Andy Johns And I was told very directly actually by Chamath, who was the head hiring manager at the time. 4 times in the scene

20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor Sep 30, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:29 Keith Rabois And we happened to find a great SPAC partner, Adam Bain, joined our board, and Chamath, known both of them for a very long time, is very excited to work with them, so it happened to be a really good fit.

20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change Mar 15, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:32 Tony Fadell And so you heard Chamath say, Chamath's very clear, he's like, the first trillionaire in the world is someone who's going to fix climate change. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven Feb 4, 2021 · 2 mentions

20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour Nov 16, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:01 Stewart Butterfield We didn't have Chamath Palihapitiya on the board for that long, but he was always great in that there would be just one or two things that he thought were more important than anything else, and we should be focusing our time on then, and…

20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A* Aug 31, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 28:49 Kevin Hartz Well, we really have to call out that Chamath is a pioneer in the market, and Chamath would be the first to point that out. 4 times in the scene

20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo Jul 31, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings Welcome back to the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, at hstebbings.com, with two B's on Instagram, and if you haven't heard our episode with Chamath at Social Capital from Monday, then that really is a must, but to our show today,…

20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic Jul 10, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:48 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring an incredible episode on Monday with Chamath at Social Capital.

20VC: Clearbanc's Michele Romanow on Why 40% of VC $ Raised Today Goes To Google and Facebook, How To Create A Financing Mechanism For The Repeatable Parts Of Your Business & Why We Need To Stop Celebrating Fundraises May 10, 2019 · 1 mention

20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems Oct 31, 2016 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:04 Mamoon Hamid In 2006, I met for the first time with Chamath, who was at Mayfield, and we were both sort of principal-level folks at our venture fund, so we sort of would commiserate about our, our jobs at venture firms as 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:19 Mamoon Hamid I think Chamath does a phenomenal job telling the world what we're up for, up to, and, and I think with small bits of

20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing Aug 15, 2016 · 1 mention

20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero Jul 15, 2016 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Due to this immense success, Carl's been featured on CNN, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and many more incredible publications, and Home Hero has raised funds from some of the world's best investors, including Chamath and Mamoon at Social…
  • ▶ 11:30 Kyle Hill I think in the early days, when you're real, when you're still figuring out what are we doing, you know, like, like Chamath and Social Plus, we had, in the early days, they really didn't harp too much on what our margins were.
  • ▶ 13:23 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned Chamath 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:08 Kyle Hill When I, when Chamath brought us on, he asked us a lot about company culture, and he knew how important it was to us, and I was telling him, you know, work hard, and stay diligent, and that kind of stuff, and he says, no, that's, that's BS.

Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor Jun 1, 2015 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 12:14 Jason Calacanis So really, Saka and Tim Ferriss, Chamath Palihapitiya, uh, Rulof Botha, Bill Gurley, you know,
  • ▶ 14:19 Jason Calacanis I have a company that I think is going to be the fifth unicorn in my portfolio, and I basically, I tell all my friends, I'm the point guard, I bring the ball down court, I, you know, do a nice little alley-oop to Chamath with, um, with a… 3 times in the scene
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