David Sacks, every mention

ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired Oct 4, 2022 · 24 mentions

• ▶ 17:55 Jason Calacanis Then Chamath had had a poker game, Sax, I had hosted it floating.
• ▶ 18:37 Jason Calacanis Then we, we were, the pandemic starts to happen, like, well, Sax has some ideas about masks, and then Friedberg.
• ▶ 18:44 David Rosenthal Sax and Friedberg weren't, there was no besties originally, right?
• ▶ 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…
• ▶ 19:50 Ben Gilbert I'll, I'll tell you, I never expected to be listening to David Sacks talk coming from where he comes from politically and where I come from politically and going, yeah.
• ▶ 20:47 Jason Calacanis They weren't besties like Sax and I are, but, you know, Gore Vidal was just, he was gay, um, kind of closeted or quietly gay, and on the left, and Buckley was like a serious conservative, and they went to blows sometimes on the show, like,…
• ▶ 28:02 Jason Calacanis Um, for Sachs, he was high profile, but nobody really knew him as a Republican.
• ▶ 28:36 Jason Calacanis And I guess Sax would be somewhere in that strata of, like, being known.
• ▶ 28:42 Jason Calacanis But yeah, you know, and I think part of the reason this works is Sax, I think Sax has probably taken the brunt of the head of the pod.
• ▶ 30:59 Jason Calacanis Cause then even David, I mean, this is, I think when David and I fight on the pod, which some people love, and I think some people probably turn the pod off when that happens and they don't like it.
• ▶ 31:31 Jason Calacanis You know, I had to tell David, like, David, I am not, like, I don't actually listen to MSNBC and Rachel Maddow to get my information, uh, and by the way, you're pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, anti-war.
• ▶ 31:50 Jason Calacanis And I, I was like, well, okay, if you, if we don't play this game, I'm gonna dub you David the dove, and now you're making me into Jason the hawk, like,
• ▶ 42:15 Jason Calacanis And, um, I, I think Saks has some research help.
• ▶ 45:34 Jason Calacanis I was like, listen, Sax wants to talk about carnivist politics.
• ▶ 45:51 Jason Calacanis You know, it worked because you see how engaged he is, and what used to happen was, and fans know this, I'm not speaking out of school here, you see it every episode, Sachs would disengage during science, and quinoa would disengage during…
• ▶ 47:03 Jason Calacanis Would be that Sax is the ultimate debater and will fight like a dog until he wins any debate.
• ▶ 47:10 Jason Calacanis And so I may have pushed, uh, uh, Sax into more of a debate situation where I'm trying to not have it be a debate.
• ▶ 47:23 Jason Calacanis And then the, some people in the audience are like, you have to be the fact checker for Sax.
• ▶ 47:29 Jason Calacanis I'm not real time fact checking Sax.
• ▶ 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.
• ▶ 1:35:45 Jason Calacanis Like, the virality of, I think Sax made this point on All In two weeks ago, which was like, if they're paying fiftyx now and the company's growing,
• ▶ 1:41:55 Jason Calacanis and I, I started doing, um, I started doing a call-in show called After All In for the last two episodes, where I took calls about the last episode of All In, just to support David, because I don't think people remember how great that app…
• ▶ 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.