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Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:51:00 David Rosenthal Chamath Palihapitiya.
- ▶ 2:51:07 David Rosenthal This was Chamath's big thing before
- ▶ 2:52:08 David Rosenthal Now, to be fair to Mark and Chamath and the company, we didn't know yet what the right advertising unit on Facebook was going to be, and this is probably as good an idea as
- ▶ 2:58:58 David Rosenthal One, after the Beacon fiasco when Cheryl joined, Chamath kind of needs a new job at the company.
- ▶ 2:59:10 David Rosenthal I think at most places, like, Chamath would have been fired immediately for what happened with Beacon.
- ▶ 2:59:46 Ben Gilbert And, you know, Chamath has said on stage since then, oh, I totally thought that growth was done.
- ▶ 3:01:12 Ben Gilbert And so you've got Shamath, you've got Alex Schultz, you've got Naomi Gleit and Javier Olivan.
- ▶ 3:01:21 Ben Gilbert It's four people, and then it expands to kind of six or seven folks that are formed really on this agreement between Chamath and Mark of, we are gonna have this dedicated growth team, and our mission is going to be to grow Facebook using…
- ▶ 3:05:36 David Rosenthal And Chamath, who deserves so much credit for starting the team, pulling it together, protecting it, advocating for it within the rest of product, you know, in the way that only Chamath can.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 12:50 Jason Calacanis Um, I thought it would be something Chamath
- ▶ 12:57 Jason Calacanis Um, Chamath, uh, I knew because he was running ICQ, um,
- ▶ 13:02 Ben Gilbert Chamath was running ICQ?
- ▶ 13:35 Jason Calacanis So I go to that, and I see Chamath, and I was like, hey, and he's like, hey, and we introduced each other, and we had known of each other, and I was like, what are you doing here?
- ▶ 14:01 Jason Calacanis Mayfield for a year, and then Sean Parker introduced him to, um, Zuck, and Zuck needed, you know, like a Chamath.
- ▶ 14:12 David Rosenthal Chamath built the growth team.
- ▶ 14:18 Jason Calacanis That was, the idea of growth hacking didn't exist as a term until Chamath did what he did.
- ▶ 14:38 Jason Calacanis We're, we're, we're definitely, you know, both outsiders in Silicon Valley, and, um, you know, I had Chamath come on the pod,
- ▶ 14:54 Jason Calacanis He's not Chamath, you know, as Gregarious or whatever.
- ▶ 15:22 Jason Calacanis You know, confident, you know, even maybe more confident than both of us should be, but, um, and so I kind of introduced Chamath to the world by convincing him to come on the pod, which he was, like, reluctant to do when he was on…
- ▶ 17:15 Jason Calacanis Chamath calls me, you know, coming out of the studio.
- ▶ 17:55 Jason Calacanis Then Chamath had had a poker game, Sax, I had hosted it floating.
- ▶ 18:47 Jason Calacanis It was just you and Chamath.
- ▶ 18:55 Jason Calacanis I was besties with Sax and Chamath, and now Friedberg is a bestie, um, and, but he, he played in the game, obviously, and we had just started to have a developer friendship, but anyway,
- ▶ 19:21 Jason Calacanis And I had had Saxon many times, and Chamath, so I was very comfortable with them, and at the poker game, we break chops, and I make jokes, um, and Chamath's a great host, and we're just very comfortable with each other, uh, and, and…
- ▶ 26:42 David Rosenthal Like, for them, before All In, I mean, Chamath had a little bit of a public business.
- ▶ 40:56 Ben Gilbert It's like you hear, you hear Chamath talk about this spread trade, and you're like, this guy's got a lot of money on that spread trade, and like, does he actually have a key insight here, or is he, and like, there's, there's this…
- ▶ 42:20 Jason Calacanis And Friedberg and Chamath read the stories, or they're well-read.
- ▶ 46:06 Jason Calacanis And what I've been trying to do is keep both of them involved when the other is doing stuff, and Chamath and I are involved.
- ▶ 48:25 Jason Calacanis Travel between those roles, and, you know, in that role, I'm acting on behalf of the audience, and I get the sense, like, he's going, Chamat's going too fast.
- ▶ 1:06:50 Jason Calacanis Tony Hsieh, rest in peace, David Sachs, Chamath, just a bunch of my friends put money in, and it was to see if I wanted to be a venture capitalist and do this as a career.
- ▶ 1:38:13 Jason Calacanis Shmaf pulled me aside at some point.
- ▶ 1:38:49 David Rosenthal Chamath talked about, um, the, uh, healthcare company.
- ▶ 1:38:51 Jason Calacanis The healthcare company, which is, I mean, we wanted to talk about that because Chamath and I both agree, like, maybe we're, I mean, maybe, like, we're definitely overprescribing these drugs to kids, like, for ADHD and attention drugs, and…
- ▶ 1:42:29 David Rosenthal I mean, if Chamath, like.
- ▶ 1:42:31 Jason Calacanis If Chamath or Sachs or I or Friedberg were to get but one more deal out of it, and it's an Uber, the economic value is nine figures.
- ▶ 1:48:02 Jason Calacanis And Chamath was on that episode, actually.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:37 Brad Gerstner Chamath and I were on CNBC.