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Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
- ▶ 8:02 David Friedberg And then our culture wars became this kind of battleground where there's like transgender theater in Africa and like things like that, right?
Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
- ▶ 37:49 Gavin Baker So Keller had the idea of we're going to go to African countries and we were going to, you know, if a, we're going to help or deliver medicines to these small villages and they focused on maternity and they have cut 4 times in the scene
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute
- ▶ 4:27 Sarah Friar Just showed me, um, the fastest growing continents now are Africa.
Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
- ▶ 9:30 Spencer Pratt She was in Africa. 2 times in the scene
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:35:47 Adam Goldstein Um, Africa's been very active.
Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
- ▶ 4:01 Dr. Mehmet Oz David, I don't know how it is in developing AI where there probably wasn't a rule book before anyway, but in healthcare, you know, there have been doctors since the dawn of, of, you know, but since humans left Africa, 50,000 years ago,…
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 1:09:49 Andrew Feldman They clobbered us in Africa.
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 15:44 Satya Nadella You know, in South America and Africa and everywhere else, uh, get it to be broadly deployed.
Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
- ▶ 41:55 Nick Shirley And they have these shops where they wire off the money to Africa.
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- ▶ 15:05 Chamath Palihapitiya There are five hundred million people using US dollar backed stablecoins from Tether all around the world, all over Africa, all over Central America, all over Asia, number one. 2 times in the scene
Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- ▶ 46:12 David Friedberg So far, there's some reports of communications going out in Africa and
Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
- ▶ 54:14 Keller Rinaudo Clifton Um, and Rwanda is this, you know, it's kind of like the Singapore of Africa.
Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- ▶ 46:30 David Friedberg I think it's not happening in Africa. 2 times in the scene
The Hidden Truth About the US Energy Grid: Subsidies, Demand & Rising Prices - Chris Wright
- ▶ 20:58 Chris Wright I've supported money to bring them to Africa to charge cell phones and bring lights.
The Brutal Truth About Ending The Ukraine War - David Sacks
- ▶ 5:26 Chamath Palihapitiya So not assuming, you know, conflicts in Africa, because they are not really quite part of the Western political global order, per se.
AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- ▶ 1:00:19 Chamath Palihapitiya So not assuming, you know, conflicts in Africa, because they are not really quite part of the Western political global order, per se.
Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 1:00:26 David Friedberg And we could see kids in Africa and kids in South Asia getting the equivalent of a Harvard graduate school degree at a cost of zero through personalized tutoring enabled through AI and the ubiquitous access to knowledge and information.
Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
- ▶ 27:03 Tony Robbins It is the bread basket for most of Africa, and there are 11 countries near famine right now, and you don't read about it in the news, because we're reading about something on somebody's knuckles, right?
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 17:42 Chamath Palihapitiya And in Belt and Road, one point, oh, what China did was use the balance sheet of China to invest incredibly aggressively and thoughtfully in all these critical geographies of the world, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa,…
Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior | All-In DC
- ▶ 44:35 Doug Burgum So when they're in, they're in the, you know, the, the Congo in Africa, pulling out those, those, those, those research rich minerals, they're bringing those back to China.
The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- ▶ 1:33:20 Ezra Klein I mean, yes, you save money by not giving HIV retrovirals to children in Africa, but I think it is good that you do that, right?
DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 27:23 Antonio Gracias I mean, where does someone who's coming from Central America or Africa get 20 grand to pay the, pay the traffickers that are walking them across the border?
Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy
- ▶ 6:09 Ken Jennings 12,800 for Dave, but you have to be correct in African geography. 5 times in the scene
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 28:30 Jason Calacanis You know, that, that to me seems like a noble thing to do, and if the United States has the budget to help fight AIDS in Africa or, you know, poverty.
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 1:21:29 David Friedberg They serve, uh, you know, Africa, South America, I mean, the whole southern hemisphere.
Flying Cars Have Arrived! eVTOL Panel: Archer, Joby, Wisk | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 43:57 Adam Goldstein How many lives could be saved if we got this stuff into, pick a country, India or Africa.
Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit
- ▶ 33:37 Jason Calacanis So they do seem to have a big interest, Jeff, in Africa, India, Russia, and they are.
JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 35:58 Jason Calacanis So, uh, some investment bank out of the Seychelles, which is that tiny island in Africa that rich people go on vacation was supposed to put in two hundred million.
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 1:03:49 Chamath Palihapitiya If you look across Asia, Central and South America.
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 47:06 David Friedberg In Africa, potato is a food staple.
E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- ▶ 1:12:46 David Friedberg 73% of it's in Africa, mostly in Ghana and Ivory Coast.
E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- ▶ 14:26 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think that's another reason, which is like, when you present people that are telling you it didn't work, that frankly look like you, speak the same language as you, I think it actually goes further in making the point than if you…
- ▶ 1:27:53 David Friedberg You go to Africa, you go to Brazil, you go to China,
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 5:41 Chamath Palihapitiya You can go through the Pacific and you can go down through the bottom of, of Africa, right?
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 11:19 Ryan Petersen You have to go around the southern tip of Africa. 2 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 57:11 Tucker Carlson His parents actually came from Africa, but whatever, the point is, they're Indian doctors, and they came here, and they settled in a little town in Massachusetts, a rural town, dying mill town, and it was great.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 22:43 unnamed speaker Like, because then, when you say that, I think most people would say, ah, go to India and sit on top of UPI, go to Africa, so how do you maintain that focus?
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 1:50:31 David Sacks He was supposed to be staying in Belarus or Africa.
E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
- ▶ 59:17 Chamath Palihapitiya These folks are from, uh, Eastern Europe, um, and Africa predominantly.
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- ▶ 19:28 David Sacks This group of mercenaries who do all sorts of business in Africa mainly, where they are working on behalf of governments there.
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 58:05 Chamath Palihapitiya And then the second is that what this article states, which is interesting, is that all the Belt and Road loans that China gave into all these developing countries in Africa, the Africans were like, we don't want this Yuan.
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 51:47 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They never had a pandemic across Africa that was a 10% vaccination rate.
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 18:12 David Friedberg By the way, China has had similar trading strategies in Africa, in Australia.
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 46:44 Chamath Palihapitiya There are certain places in Africa, tons of stuff in Indonesia and Australia, all of those things.
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 42:21 Jason Calacanis I remember I heard the pitch where they had people around the world taking pictures of food prices, Africa, India, the United States anywhere, and then putting them into a database normalizing them so you could know the price of tomatoes…
E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more
- ▶ 27:36 David Friedberg There's an emerging problem with food insecurity in Africa, South Asia, around the world.
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 1:01:05 Chamath Palihapitiya If you don't have that, what China has done is they've tried to go to Southeast Asia and to Africa, and they've tried to create that synthetic form of a growing pyramid, right? 2 times in the scene
E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
- ▶ 32:43 David Friedberg China's been building presidential palaces for African leaders throughout the continent. 2 times in the scene
E86: Macro outlook: jobs, housing, inflation + Dutch farmers protests & EU climate missteps
- ▶ 40:58 Chamath Palihapitiya So meaning there's a ton of underdeveloped rare earth assets in Canada, the U S Africa, Australia, Brazil, Brazil, they're just under under developed because when you put all of these factors together, it's really tough.
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 1:13:27 Chamath Palihapitiya They're selling it to Africa.
#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril
- ▶ 13:24 Palmer Luckey There's about a dozen countries in Africa, South America, and Asia that, were they to acquire extremely advanced artificial intelligence, either through coincidence or by proxy arming, would almost certainly start to wage war on their…
#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
- ▶ 15:32 Joe Lonsdale Really, really helped accelerate tech driven globalization, which probably was good for India, and China, and Southeast Asia, and even Africa, but it basically forced workers in the U.S. to compete against all these people directly, and so…
E82: All-In Summit: Claire Cormier Thielke on China + Q&A with Flexport's Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 26:52 Jason Calacanis Um, and, and that leaves some areas in Africa and Southeast Asia that we still need to do that work, um, which paradoxically or ironically it seems like China is doing in Africa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:55 Claire Cormier Thielke So, you know, the short version of Belt and Road is, uh, working really across a set of countries around Southeast, Southeast Asia and Africa bringing in, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:28 Jason Calacanis And, uh, they're doing it in Africa and some other places.
E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- ▶ 8:51 David Sacks Uh, Africa and large parts of Latin America. 2 times in the scene
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 1:20:37 David Friedberg Critical risk in Africa in the near term.
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 17:31 David Friedberg So not only is the current wheat supply in Russia, Ukraine blocked up and cannot make its way to countries like Africa or countries in Africa and elsewhere, but the future planting season is now significantly at risk.
- ▶ 31:35 Jason Calacanis You know, they can't even think about people in Africa.
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 18:58 David Friedberg That wheat goes to Egypt, and from Egypt it goes throughout Africa, and there's a lot of nations and a lot of people that depend on that food supply
- ▶ 1:15:24 David Friedberg But there are other things at play here, like, you know, the cost of gas for the average American, you know, the amount of wheat and the amount of food that people in Africa are going to have what you're what you're saying here, Freeberg… 2 times in the scene
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 1:18:15 Jason Calacanis They told people in Africa to not use condoms.
E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more
- ▶ 5:18 Jason Calacanis Joke that he immediately said, oh my god, that's pretty racist, I shouldn't have told that joke, where he, uh, compared, uh, going to see Planet of the Apes in an all-black theater in Philly, saying he was in Africa.
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 1:32:37 Chamath Palihapitiya And this is where again, you have to think about what China has done, which is they have while we were fighting wars, you know, putting trillions of dollars into the Middle East, they took their trillion dollars and bought resources all…
E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- ▶ 1:04:26 Chamath Palihapitiya Peer-to-peer payments, um, the destruction of traditional rails, uh, it will come out of Africa.
E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
- ▶ 16:14 David Friedberg There's a whole big chunk of Africa where we have no surveillance going on. 3 times in the scene
E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- ▶ 58:19 Chamath Palihapitiya I'm about to do this thing in Africa, and I'm going there in December. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:13 Jason Calacanis And if this Africa trip is coming, I was Africa trip is happening. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 25:35 Chamath Palihapitiya China was in Africa.
E39: West coast super drought & climate crisis, Nuclear virtue signaling, chaos in SF & more
- ▶ 11:31 Chamath Palihapitiya It's the Mediterranean and southern Europe, and it's large parts of Africa.
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 49:26 David Friedberg It basically allows ships from Asia to not have to go all the way around Africa to get to Europe.
E23: Radical DAs, breaking down FB/Google vs. Australia, sustained fear post-vaccine & fan questions
- ▶ 1:11:41 Chamath Palihapitiya And then you have these sort of what I would call random, you know, friends with benefits, Africa, South America, Japan, Korea.
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 12:02 unnamed speaker And they took advantage of the crisis to build more client states in Asia and Africa with promises of vaccines and money.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 24:25 Chamath Palihapitiya And what we will do instead is we will go and basically buy and own large swaths of Southeast Asia, large swaths of Africa, which is, you know, the emerging labor pools that will drive GDP forward for us.
- ▶ 39:41 David Friedberg They started building these facilities in Argentina and Brazil and Africa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:09 Chamath Palihapitiya Whether it's five G chips, rare earth materials or minerals, things like cobalt and lithium, which we need for batteries for climate change, um, that we can go and basically co-opt because those things are concentrated in countries like…
E1: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, VC & Public Markets with David Friedberg
- ▶ 1:22:36 Chamath Palihapitiya They still exist in some form or fashion, and as David said, there are huge economic ramifications to, to having these cultural edicts, and it's very difficult, I think, for an American to demand China to do it when we're not willing to…