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2026 26 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
- AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
- Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
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2025 20 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy
- 2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- How Chamath Optimized His Health
- Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
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2024 33 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- Kamala surges, Trump at NABJ, recession fears, Middle East escalation, Ackman postpones IPO
- Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser
- DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
- Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
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Chamath: AI-driven coding produces poor initial code and requires heavy rework
“What I will tell you running eighty-ninety when I see
Our engineers generating code is that AI driven development tends to involve a lot of rework.
The first version is pretty terrible.
The second version is terrible, but it is faster and it's more automated.”
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M for AI startup 8090 as CEO
“Chamath Palihapitiya raises a hundred and thirty five million for his AI startup, eight zero nine zero or 8090, whatever he calls it. But he also is now CEO.”
Lemkin refuses to invest in Chamath's 8090 without full-time commitment
“So I, I'm out. If literally Chamath drops everything, but 80, 90, everything. And I see the sweat from his brow and I see all, and I see that cause the dude's fit and he's looking good. Right. He just had, A massive, the massive largest win of his career as an…”
Chamath: 8090 hires more interns quarterly than full-time engineers
“Yeah, we recruit more interns every quarter than we have full-time Engineers, which we do on purpose because it puts a ton of pressure on the product actually being good.”
Chamath: 8090 pivoted to disrupting software maintenance and migration
“Our entire business, eighty-nineties business, has basically migrated to disrupting maintenance and migration patterns.”
Early-stage CEOs must prevent drift by constantly reinforcing the mission
“What I found is that early on, especially when you're trying to do something extremely ambitious, like the eighty-ninety team is trying to do, the biggest problem is drift, meaning you just kind of drift away. Everybody just drifts away. They lose an understan…”
Chamath: 8090 is run-rating nine figures with zero revenue from PE firms
“So if I look at my customer distribution and concentration at eighty-ninety, ok? Run rating into nine figures already, working on a three, four hundred million dollar deal. Not a single dollar comes from a private equity firm”
Chamath: 8090 would gladly pay $100,000 fee for exceptional H-1B talent
“I have several of these folks that work for me at eighty-ninety. These are incredible grads from Carnegie Mellon. They are off the charts smart, but because they did a master's or a PhD, they come with a couple of years, and you can oftentimes extend that, and…”
Palihapitiya says his AI firm 8090 will hit $40M in bookings
“We've been selling into the enterprise at 80, 90. We'll do this year. This is our first full year of business. We'll do about forty million dollars of bookings.”
Palihapitiya says his AI firm was fired despite delivering enormous gains
“Our first customer where we delivered enormous gains, we were fired. And the reason we were fired was not because the technology wasn't working, but it's because as it goes lower and lower from the board and the CEO into the bowels of the organization, You act…”
Chamath: 8090 uses Gemini for general tasks and Claude for coding
“So for many tasks at 8090, we use Gemini. It's incredible. But for most of our co-gen, we use Anthropic and Claude kicks ass. It's exceptional.”
Chamath: 80/90 reached $5M in revenue in three months
“From 80, 90, you know, we got to five million of revenue in three months.”