8090

also referred to as: 80/90

11 statements across 10 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 14, 2024 by Chamath Palihapitiya · said 73 times in 40 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jun 14, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Chamath incorporated his latest fund in Nevada and redomiciled others
“The last company I started, 80, 90, we incorporated in Nevada, and I just redomiciled a couple of other companies that I own into Nevada as well.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 39:53 Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser
Mar 1, 2025 positive
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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.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 1, 2025 ▶ 23:58 Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy
May 3, 2025 positive
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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 Palihapitiya May 3, 2025 ▶ 1:25:09 Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
Aug 22, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
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.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 29:30 AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
Aug 22, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
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 Palihapitiya Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 29:45 AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
Sep 27, 2025 positive
Disclosure
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…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Sep 27, 2025 ▶ 11:25 H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
Oct 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
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 Palihapitiya Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 30:24 Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
Nov 17, 2025
Insight
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 Palihapitiya Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 6:32 How Chamath Optimized His Health
Jan 10, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Chamath: 8090 pivoted to disrupting software maintenance and migration
“Our entire business, eighty-nineties business, has basically migrated to disrupting maintenance and migration patterns.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 10, 2026 ▶ 44:32 All-In's 2026 Predictions
May 29, 2026
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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 Palihapitiya May 29, 2026 ▶ 3:16 Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
Jul 30, 2026 neutral
Insight
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 Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 46:26 Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
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