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Amazon

also referred to as: amazons

includes Amazon Web Services, Amazon Prime, Amazon Basics, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Seller Central, Amazon Echo, Amazon Appstore, Amazon Fire Tablet and 1 more

74 statements across 55 episodes · 32 bullish · 26 bearish · 17 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2020 by Chamath Palihapitiya · said 1,019 times in 240 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (471), Chamath Palihapitiya (234), David Friedberg (117), David Sacks (68), Ryan Cohen (27), Brad Gerstner (11), Gavin Baker (10), Thomas Laffont (9)

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Everything said about Amazon, oldest first

Jul 31, 2020 bearish
Prediction Held up
Chamath predicts Amazon will face Facebook-level antitrust scrutiny within 5-10 years
“Amazon today I don't think is at risk just because its end market is so big, but I think within five or 10 years it definitely will be looked at through the same lens as Facebook and Google and actually just those two.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 31, 2020 ▶ 1:10:15 E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
Jul 31, 2020 positive
Opinion
Calacanis: Amazon performed best in antitrust hearings, least likely to break up
“Amazon I thought came out the best of everybody, and is the least likely to be broken up.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 31, 2020 ▶ 1:05:47 E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
Jul 31, 2020 neutral
Insight
Sacks: Threatening to break up Big Tech works better than doing it
“I think the execution would be a disaster if we actually impose a lot of these rules. If we broke up these companies, if we stopped Amazon from innovating, I think that that would be a disaster for those companies and for the economy, because I do think they d…”
David Sacks Jul 31, 2020 ▶ 1:16:56 E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
Jul 31, 2020 bearish
Opinion
Chamath ranks Facebook at highest regulatory risk and Amazon at lowest
“If you had to stack rank to risk, I think Facebook is number one at the top of the list. Then I think it's Google. Then I think it's Apple. And then I think far, far, far down is Amazon.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 31, 2020 ▶ 10:50 E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
Jul 31, 2020 negative
Disclosure
Friedberg: My quinoa brand yields higher margins in retail stores than Amazon
“I can tell you my other company, which we sell, Quinoa, it's cheaper for us to sell Through retail stores than it is to sell on Amazon. We actually give up more margin selling on Amazon.”
David Friedberg Jul 31, 2020 ▶ 1:08:53 E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
Jul 31, 2020 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Amazon is the scariest monopoly because it endlessly expands into adjacencies
“I think he's the scariest monopolist out of the whole bunch. You know, if you look at kind of Amazon versus say Google or Facebook or Apple, I mean, those other companies are sort of sticking to their original footprint. Whereas Amazon keeps expanding into new…”
David Sacks Jul 31, 2020 ▶ 1:13:30 E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
Dec 4, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Chamath: Sold Facebook position in 2014 to buy Amazon and Tesla
“I sold it on Facebook in 2014 and bought Amazon and Tesla.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 4, 2020 ▶ 24:45 E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
Dec 18, 2020 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2023
Calacanis: Amazon and Netflix will each buy a movie theater chain
“I think Amazon will buy one chain, I think Netflix buys the other.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 18, 2020 ▶ 21:35 E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
Jan 11, 2021 positive
Opinion
Friedberg: Big Tech scale benefits consumers and shouldn't be broken up
“I also think consumers benefit from the scale that they operate at. And I don't think that they should be broken up. And I think that there's economic value to having Google be at the scale it's at and Amazon being at the scale it's at and Facebook being a sca…”
David Friedberg Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 1:27:19 E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
Apr 1, 2021 negative
What-if
Friedberg: Capping Bezos at $1B would have destroyed Amazon's future societal benefit
“If Jeff Bezos stopped building Amazon, when he made a billion dollars because he was forced to by the government. At that point, all the future benefit of Amazon would have been lost.”
David Friedberg Apr 1, 2021 ▶ 57:12 E28: Current state of public & private markets, Archegos debacle, US debt issues, wealth tax & more
Jun 13, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg predicts Amazon will operate as a monopoly for decades
“He's got the world's greatest money machine ever. It's a flywheel. It'll run as a monopoly for decades.”
David Friedberg Jun 13, 2021 ▶ 29:25 E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
Jun 25, 2021 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg predicts Shopify, Square, and Stripe will disrupt Apple and Amazon
“I think that over the next decade, because of exactly what you guys said, that Apple is run by managers who don't want to see loss, but aren't driven to gain, you're going to end up seeing Amazon in particular, and Apple likely as well, Lose to the likes of Sh…”
David Friedberg Jun 25, 2021 ▶ 1:12:24 E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
Jul 3, 2021 negative
Prediction Held up
Sacks: FTC Chair Lina Khan will not be recused regarding Amazon
“There's no way this is gonna fly. There's no way she's gonna get recused”
David Sacks Jul 3, 2021 ▶ 1:12:17 E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
Jul 3, 2021 bearish
Opinion
Sacks: Amazon, Google, and Apple are clearly monopolies or duopolies
“Those companies are clearly Monopolies are duopolies in their spaces.”
David Sacks Jul 3, 2021 ▶ 1:15:49 E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
Jul 23, 2021 negative
Opinion
Chamath: Google, Facebook, and Amazon hinder constructive capitalism
“I generally think that companies like Google and Facebook and Amazon unfortunately do not allow The constructive form of capitalism that people want in today's society.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 23, 2021 ▶ 57:14 E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
Nov 6, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath: John Doerr never sold distributed Amazon shares
“He had never sold a single share of Amazon that was distributed to him, and he had only sold a handful of shares of Google only to fund future capital requirements at Kleiner at the time.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 6, 2021 ▶ 25:42 E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
Nov 13, 2021 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Jeff Bezos sold $6.6B of Amazon stock in 2021
“Bezos had a track record of selling roughly a billion dollars of Amazon stock every year, and this year he, you know, snap sold 6.6 billion.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 13, 2021 ▶ 1:29:45 E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
Nov 13, 2021 bullish
Assertion Supported
Chamath: Bezos achieved a 42% ROIC reinvesting Amazon's free cash flow
“We calculated what Bezos is investment track record was, right? Because he basically took all his free cash flow and reinvested it in the business and you could measure what his return on invested capital was, and it was like, 42% and on a really big number on…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 13, 2021 ▶ 1:29:05 E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
Nov 13, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Teachers and firefighters are quitting to work at Amazon
“There are teachers That are leaving teaching to go work at an Amazon warehouse. There are firefighters that are quitting being a firefighter to go work at an Amazon warehouse because you make the same or more.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 13, 2021 ▶ 43:59 E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
Nov 20, 2021 bullish
Opinion
Palihapitiya: Amazon does more to unwind monopolies than the FTC
“Amazon is now doing more to actually unwind duopolies and monopolies in markets than the government and the FTC is”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 20, 2021 ▶ 1:00:49 E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
Jan 8, 2022 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon raised under $250M combined
“Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon raised collectively less than two hundred and fifty million dollars.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 8, 2022 ▶ 54:02 E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
May 24, 2022 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: Amazon achieved escape velocity on under $1B invested capital
“Amazon got escape velocity on less than, you know, a billion dollars of invested capital.”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 24, 2022 ▶ 49:13 E82: All-In Summit: Claire Cormier Thielke on China + Q&A with Flexport's Ryan Petersen
Jul 22, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Amazon will massively expand One Medical telehealth within a year
“I will bet you guys, I will bet you guys a dollar that within a year after closing the deal, They're going to massively expand the telehealth footprint of what medical is doing.”
David Friedberg Jul 22, 2022 ▶ 1:38:53 E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
Jul 29, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Amazon is cancelling plans for 15 U.S. warehouses
“Now they're realizing the demand is not going to be there. And they're cutting back on 15 warehouses around the country and not going to build them.”
David Friedberg Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 25:43 E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
Sep 17, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Friedberg: Amazon reached 25% delivery share in 2020, surpassing FedEx and UPS
“At the end of 2020, Amazon was already up to 25% market share which put them ahead of both FedEx and UPS.”
David Friedberg Sep 17, 2022 ▶ 1:07:25 E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
Oct 14, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Almost 90 Amazon VPs or higher left since 2021
“Almost 90 VPs or higher level execs have left Amazon since 2021.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 14, 2022 ▶ 1:15:04 E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
Jan 27, 2023 bullish
Disclosure
Friedberg: Portfolio companies moved ad spend from Google and Meta to Amazon
“I know this from experience on a couple boards. I'm at where companies stopped spending on Facebook and Google and just started spending exclusively on Amazon.”
David Friedberg Jan 27, 2023 ▶ 16:19 E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
Jan 27, 2023 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath Palihapitiya cites market data showing Google holds 26.5% of digital ads
“Google controls 26.5% of a market. 43.4% of that market is with a diverse group of others. Meta has 18.4%, and Amazon has 11.7.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 27, 2023 ▶ 4:47 E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
Feb 4, 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: Big tech giants raised under $250M total before IPOs
“Less than a quarter billion dollars.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 4, 2023 ▶ 51:49 E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
Mar 11, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: SVB contagion will kill tens of thousands of jobs
“Tens of thousands of highly paid workers, and not just tech workers, are going to be out of jobs, and they don't have jobs waiting for them at Amazon, or Google to bail them out, and this is the start of a contagion, if it doesn't get stopped, I believe that.”
Jason Calacanis Mar 11, 2023 ▶ 1:00:00 E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
May 26, 2023 bearish
Prediction Partly held up
Palihapitiya: Nvidia's margins will compress as major tech companies build custom chips
“In the end, Nvidia's gains today will be then spread across Nvidia. Facebook will have their own chip. Amazon will have their own chip. Google already does. Apple will have their own chip. All the memory companies will be in this space, right? So then the prof…”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 26, 2023 ▶ 1:04:45 E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
Jun 24, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
JCal: Seven tech stocks drive most of 2023 stock market gains
“Seven stocks make up the mo- most of the gains this year. Meta, Tesla, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple.”
Jason Calacanis Jun 24, 2023 ▶ 8:33 E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
Sep 13, 2023 positive
Opinion
Lütke: Amazon Prime is probably a better brand than Amazon in some cases
“Prime is a credible brand. It's probably a better brand than Amazon in some cases.”
Tobi Lütke Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 13:28 All-In Summit: Tobi Lutke on consumer spending, teams, Amazon, AI, and more
Sep 16, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Gurley: Four of Elizabeth Warren's top ten donors are big tech companies
“Four of the top 10 contributors to Elizabeth Warren are Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.”
Bill Gurley Sep 16, 2023 ▶ 20:18 All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
Jan 26, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Digital ad gains shift to Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and Uber
“All the gains in advertising have gone to those two firms and now TikTok obviously. And Amazon, Uber building respectable ad businesses as well. So all of that takes ads out of publications and puts it closer to the point of purchase, right?”
Jason Calacanis Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 18:44 E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
May 17, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Meta and Amazon lack high-value call options like Google's Waymo
“Meta and Amazon do not have an isomorphic lab and Waymo sitting inside their business that suddenly pops to a couple hundred billion of market cap. And Google does have a few of those.”
David Friedberg May 17, 2024 ▶ 1:29:36 GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
May 24, 2024 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2029
Chamath: Nvidia will likely compete directly with GCP, AWS, and Azure
“So I think it's likely that Nvidia goes on a full frontal assault against GCP and Amazon and Microsoft.”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 24, 2024 ▶ 37:05 Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
Oct 3, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Big Tech incumbents consistently win when threatened by upstarts
“And I think in, in the last 20 or 25 years, what you've seen is those companies, when their backs are against the wall, they use money, they're sharp elbowed, but the consistent thing is they've won.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 2:02:55 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
Dec 13, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Raboy: Lina Khan's Yale academic paper on Amazon contained false data
“She published a paper that was false. Like, her whole claim to fame is this paper about Amazon. And the data in the Amazon, the data she used in the paper at Yale was false.”
Keith Rabois Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 1:12:35 Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
Dec 20, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Big tech and Elon Musk will win the AI hardware war
“In a capital war, I think the big companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, And brands like Elon will always be able to attract effectively infinite capital, and their cost of capital goes to zero, which means they'll be able to win this hardware war.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 1:01:34 DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
Jan 4, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis predicts massive consolidation between Tesla, Uber, Waymo, and delivery apps
“I think the age of autonomy is here, and I think there is going to be Some partnerships that will happen between Amazon, DoorDash, Uber, Tesla, Waymo, and that cohort, and I would not be surprised to see Tesla could buy Uber right now for but 10% of its market…”
Jason Calacanis Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 52:33 2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
Jan 25, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Chamath: Broadcom is a $1.12T business that receives little attention
“Is that it is the only trillion dollar company that nobody talks about. Everybody knows Nvidia. Everybody knows Amazon Meta, but Broadcom is a 1.12 trillion dollar business.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 25, 2025 ▶ 1:45:13 Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
Mar 15, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Andrew Schulz bought back his comedy special from Amazon over content notes
“Now, my last special was supposed to be with Amazon, so it was with Amazon, and they had some notes, and I bought it back from them, and I put it out myself.”
Andrew Schulz Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 1:18:01 Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
Mar 20, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lutnick: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are building U.S. government software for free
“I go to the heads of Google and Microsoft and Amazon. They're all For America. Building for us. Right. For free. Right. To make America better.”
Howard Lutnick Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 1:18:40 Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
Apr 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Amazon paid MrBeast for 'Beast Games' distribution deal
“Jimmy's getting a deal from Amazon. Amazon paid him for the Beast games.”
David Friedberg Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 25:52 All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
May 3, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Petersen: 60% of Amazon third-party sellers are Chinese companies
“I think it's 60% of all the sellers on Amazon are these Chinese registered. They're not registered in the United States at all, just Chinese companies selling.”
Ryan Petersen May 3, 2025 ▶ 53:53 Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
Jun 21, 2025
Disclosure
Chamath: Season 2 of Amazon's Beast Games filming in Saudi Arabia
“For Beast games, we had a deal in Las Vegas and in Toronto. We got huge tax credits. And in the second season that we're doing for Amazon, we did an enormous deal with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And so we're filming a bunch of episodes there. We're building …”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 5:06 IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
Jun 21, 2025 positive
Insight
Chamath: Amazon will be a kingmaker in physical AI
“For physical AI, they're a kingmaker in parts because they're a sink for demand. So they'll just generate so much demand for robots.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 1:29:10 IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
Jul 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Trump claims Big Tech is investing $320 billion in AI infrastructure
“Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft are all investing three hundred and twenty billion dollars or more in data centers and AI infrastructure this year.”
Donald J. Trump Jul 24, 2025 ▶ 38:29 Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
Aug 1, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Palihapitiya: Media publisher AI content licensing deals have peaked in value
“This is the peak of these deals. These deals will only go down in terms of dollar value from here.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 42:15 Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Calacanis: Amazon's $20M deal equals 1% of New York Times revenue
“That twenty million dollars from Amazon alone is one percent of the New York Times revenue, and that's going to go directly to the bottom line.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 54:03 Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
Sep 30, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Cliffton: 5.5 billion instant deliveries take place annually in the US
“There are now five and a half billion instant deliveries being done every year just in the US. And that's not like Amazon or UPS. That's just the instant deliveries.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 58:08 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Cliffton: Packages under eight pounds comprise 95 percent of Amazon deliveries
“The system is designed to deliver up to eight pounds, and eight pounds gets you like, 95% of all packages delivered by Amazon. I think it's like, 95% of food delivery orders.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 1:00:18 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Oct 18, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Headcounts at Meta, Uber, and Amazon have dropped from peak levels
“You know, Meta peaked at 86,000 employees now at 75. Uber at 33, now at 31. And Amazon, where you would think you'd have a lot of growth here they're at, they peaked at 1.6 and now they're down at 1.55.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 18, 2025 ▶ 1:12:59 Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
Oct 18, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Driving, delivery, and warehouse jobs will inevitably be automated away
“If you think about the average American citizen, you know, they have somebody in their family who drives for Uber or DoorDash, they have truck drivers, they have Amazon factory workers, and all those jobs are going away. It's just a matter of when.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 18, 2025 ▶ 57:32 Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
Oct 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Leaked Amazon docs reveal plan to automate 75% of warehouses by 2033
“Internal docs viewed by the New York times showed Amazon plans to not hire. 600,000 plan jobs because of robots by 2033. So this isn't, they're planning on laying off 600,000 workers, but rather they're just pulling back their hiring plans and ramping up their…”
Jason Calacanis Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 29:08 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
Oct 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Calacanis notes Amazon's total headcount declined from its 2021 peak
“The actual peak employment there was 1.6 million in 2021, and it's now 1.55 in 2025.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 45:11 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
Oct 24, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Calacanis notes recent AWS outage crippled 2,000 companies for 15 hours
“Monday, massive AWS outage, 2000 companies, four million users unable to function on the internet for half a day, 15 hours, 20 hours.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 28:53 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Emanuel: Traditional media businesses will not disappear anytime soon
“I don't believe that traditional business is going away for a long time, because a lot of us sports guys have, the NFL, the NBA, has still sold stuff there, plus also sold it to the Amazons of the world”
Ari Emanuel Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 4:53 AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Insight
Emanuel: Talent representation provides crucial executive access for TKO media deals
“Being in the representation business, whether it be Marty Scorsese or Dwayne Johnson or Mark Wahlberg or Peter Berg or Greg, a whole host of my clients, Aaron Sork, enables me to make The deals over at TKO because I'm in the conversation with YouTube, Amazon, …”
Ari Emanuel Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 13:29 AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment
Nov 22, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: AI decoding chip market will quickly become highly fragmented
“What we are quickly seeing is that there's going to be a highly fragmented layer of decoding chips that exist in the marketplace. Grok is one. TPU is one. Microsoft has a spin. Amazon has Inferentia. Facebook, I think, is Apparently spinning up their own silic…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 22, 2025 ▶ 36:09 Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
Jan 10, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Amazon will be 2026's biggest business winner through robotics
“My prediction for 20, 26 is that Amazon is going to have a massive year. As they continue to replace humans. With robots. That's why. Here's a chart for you. I've been talking about this a little bit. I think this is the most important company to watch because…”
Jason Calacanis Jan 10, 2026 ▶ 36:19 All-In's 2026 Predictions
Jan 10, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Calacanis: Big Tech will make a $50B+ AI acquisition in 2026
“For twenty-twenty-six, I think we're going to see some massive M&A. It doesn't matter to me how it occurs, but I do think we're going to see a fifty billion plus deal, and I think it could be, ah, one of the Mac seven, an Apple, a Meta, a Microsoft, or an Amaz…”
Jason Calacanis Jan 10, 2026 ▶ 53:48 All-In's 2026 Predictions
Feb 7, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Calacanis: Amazon is top pick for company of the future via AI efficiency
“Amazon, which is like my number one pick for like the company of the future, they're going to be able to do so much more with so many fewer people.”
Jason Calacanis Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 34:25 Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
Mar 13, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: Agent-written code caused three or four SEV-1 outages at AWS
“Why does Amazon issue an edict that says you cannot use this stuff inside of AWS unless a human now reviews and approves it? Because what happened? They had three or four SEV-ONE faults from a bunch of code that was written by agents that brought down AWS.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 34:14 Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
May 22, 2026 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Chamath Palihapitiya: Amazon has 35% to 40% warehouse employee churn
“Amazon has 35 or 40% churn inside of their warehouses.”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 22, 2026 ▶ 26:47 SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
May 22, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gavin Baker: Major tech firms are convinced orbital compute will become reality
“Google, Anthropic, Amazon, NVIDIA. They are all very convinced that orbital compute is going to be reality, and obviously SpaceX is extraordinarily well positioned for that.”
Gavin Baker May 22, 2026 ▶ 52:41 SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
May 29, 2026
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Amazon, Google, and Meta lobbied Vatican on AI encyclical
“The folks at Amazon, Google, and Meta lobbied the Vatican on April, 29th to soften the language in his missive.”
Jason Calacanis May 29, 2026 ▶ 19:32 Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
Jun 3, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Ackman: Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are undervalued amid AI hype
“I think a similar thing is happening today, in a sense, to Amazon and Meta, Microsoft.”
Bill Ackman Jun 3, 2026 ▶ 6:40 Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
Jun 3, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2029
Ackman: Amazon will have to become an even bigger SpaceX customer
“Even Amazon is going to have to become an even bigger customer because they're not, you know, Blue Origins, you know”
Bill Ackman Jun 3, 2026 ▶ 12:19 Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
Jun 12, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2029
Dreyfus: Talen Energy will generate $50 per share free cash flow
“If they just do absolutely nothing, Just absolutely nothing. Just sit there and run the business. Let their Amazon data center contract roll up. These guys will be generating 50 dollars a share of free cash flow per year.”
Dan Dreyfus Jun 12, 2026 ▶ 21:50 All-In's Best Ideas Pitch Competition: 4 Investors Present Their Top Trades Live
Jun 23, 2026 negative
What-if
Ryan Cohen: eBay could have been Amazon
“EBay could have been Amazon.”
Ryan Cohen Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 35:00 GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s $56B Plan to Take Over eBay
Jul 3, 2026
Assertion Supported
Chamath: Microsoft and Amazon allocating billions toward forward-deployed engineers
“Microsoft just announced a two and a half billion dollar investment to stand up in FDE, or Amazon is spending a billion dollars to create an FDE.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 32:35 AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
Aug 13, 2026 negative
Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2031
Sacks: Eliminating Amazon DSPs will add $5.20 per package
“What we do know it will do is raise the cost of packages by about five dollars and 20 cents per package, and it will cost families 664 dollars more per year, and it puts something like 5000 jobs at risk.”
David Sacks Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 1:26:42 Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
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