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All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 54:47 Chamath Palihapitiya It's worse than when Microsoft tried to buy Activision, because that was a niche product
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 10:24 David Friedberg They own a sizable percent of Activision Blizzard.
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 35:16 Chamath Palihapitiya You remember, I suspect that's what happened in Microsoft Activision.
E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more
- ▶ 58:41 Chamath Palihapitiya It's not like they're like, oh, Activision, come on in, the doors are open.
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 15:39 David Sacks So first you have Sundar's letter to the company, which there was a very interesting tweet by Lulu Chang, uh, Missouri, who does comms at Activision.
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 24:52 David Friedberg Consumer and enterprise strength and strategic strength, the fact that they were able to close the activation acquisition in this sort of regulatory environment.
- ▶ 43:12 Chamath Palihapitiya I just think the gross tonnage of market cap dollars he added in 2023, plus figuring out how to close Activision, plus retaining maximum optionality with OpenAI, is just a masterclass in heads down management.
E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- ▶ 10:47 Jason Calacanis And Google paid Activision three hundred sixty million dollars to keep in the Play Store.
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 1:19:50 Chamath Palihapitiya The concerning thing here is that this is on the heels of Activision and Microsoft, which was equally protracted and drawn out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:11 Chamath Palihapitiya Activision.
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 48:15 Chamath Palihapitiya It looks like Microsoft will have to give a 15 year license to video game streaming to Ubisoft in order to get the UK folks to agree to Activision, to their Activision acquisition. 2 times in the scene
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- ▶ 30:36 Jason Calacanis Lena Kahn and the FTC losing their Activision case.
- ▶ 36:37 Jason Calacanis On Tuesday morning, a federal judge denied the FTC's attempt to delay Microsoft's seventy billion dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard. 4 times in the scene
E76: Elon vs. Twitter
- ▶ 53:14 Chamath Palihapitiya Like look at Microsoft and Activision. 3 times in the scene
E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more
- ▶ 1:01:06 Jason Calacanis Yeah, so just to give, catch people up on that, Microsoft has made another savvy move to get approval for their seventy-five billion dollar Activision Blizzard, uh, acquisition.
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 48:10 Chamath Palihapitiya And we saw this because they had the courage to do this Activision deal, you know, just a few weeks ago.
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 21:56 Jason Calacanis Microsoft announced it's buying Activision Blizzard for sixty eight billion dollars of cash. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:10 Jason Calacanis Not consumer harm, because obviously if Microsoft buys Activision and makes those part of Game Pass and you get Call of Duty for free with your Game Pass and the Candy Crush games and Blizzard games, that's good for consumers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:31 Chamath Palihapitiya You gotta think that, for example, going back to Microsoft Activision, obviously the bankers would have called Apple and Facebook and Google as well.