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Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026? Dec 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:05 David Friedberg It was the end applications that made all the money, and they competed in many different markets from Google to Amazon to Uber.

Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes Dec 13, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11:08 Jason Calacanis When they see firms like Amazon estimating, estimating in the future, they're going to eliminate these 600,000 jobs, and that leaks, and that they're going to do a PR campaign about it. 3 times in the scene

OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line? Dec 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:00:06 David Friedberg And Microsoft, Amazon, Costco, and some of the other big employers in that state are now trying to figure out what they should do.

Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom Nov 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:24 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, if you generate a link for a pharmaceutical drug, Google charges a price per click that's way different than the link that they generate that goes to Amazon to buy toothpaste. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:28 Chamath Palihapitiya Amazon has Inferentia.

Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth Nov 14, 2025 · 1 mention

Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option Nov 7, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 47:42 Chamath Palihapitiya Even the Amazon cuts, Andy Jassy on the earnings call said, this is not AI, this is us digesting all this hiring through Zerp and DEI. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:02:16 David Sacks And I remember that article that got pulled up when we discussed for Amazon was basically automating its warehouses. 2 times in the scene

AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment Nov 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:53 Ari Emanuel People consume stuff now on the streamers, and so, and I do, 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…
  • ▶ 13:43 Ari Emanuel The deals over at TKO because I'm in the conversation with YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, all the people I need to be in business.

Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower Nov 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:50 Chamath Palihapitiya So should we think about this as there's, you know, we live in a world, as you said, when, when you're back home here in the U.S., there's AWS, there's GCP, there's, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:48 Tareq Amin My rates, my tariff is equivalent to what Google would get to what AWS get.

Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia Oct 31, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:31 Elon Musk That's something that's keeping it going, which was, I guess, AWS, uh, East or whatever, had something like that.
  • ▶ 51:47 Jason Calacanis And we're seeing Amazon take some steps here where they're like,
  • ▶ 1:13:08 Elon Musk Again, you could just literally buy a CO two monitor from Amazon.

Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028 Oct 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 56:36 Jason Calacanis Uh, Amazon announced yesterday, I'm sure you saw 30,000 white collar jobs to be eliminated. 2 times in the scene

NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias Oct 24, 2025 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 28:47 Jason Calacanis Let's talk about this Amazon outage.
  • ▶ 28:53 Jason Calacanis And then they had a bunch of leaked documents about their plans for, uh, jobs and, uh, Monday, massive AWS outage, 2000 companies, four million users unable to function on the internet for half a day, 15 hours, 20 hours.
  • ▶ 29:44 David Friedberg I think the AWS story 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:55 David Friedberg By the way, a good point to make is that this revenue number that I highlighted for Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Amazon actually include their applications. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:36 David Friedberg Jason, we all objected to talking yet again about AI driven job loss, yet you insisted on putting this AI robot story from Amazon in. 9 times in the scene

Joe Manchin Exposes The Chaos Inside Biden’s White House Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:23 Jason Calacanis I came out of the garage, and like, a garage, because you have to do every word perfectly to sync it on Amazon, right?

Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis Oct 18, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 54:36 Chamath Palihapitiya And then in the third example, there was an attempt by an Amazon data center to get built near Tucson that I think also was mothballed. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:09:55 Chamath Palihapitiya What I'm saying is we need to figure out how to fix this because you can't have Google, Microsoft, and Amazon cancel 3 times in the scene

1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned Oct 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:48 Andrew Ross Sorkin So I went on a vacation like 10 years ago with my wife, very nerdy, and I, like, downloaded all these books to my Kindle. 2 times in the scene

Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally Oct 10, 2025 · 3 mentions

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built Oct 9, 2025 · 1 mention

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on AI, Censorship & the Future of Creators Oct 8, 2025 · 1 mention

Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy Oct 3, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 46:35 Jason Calacanis So just so everybody understands it's available on AWS.
  • ▶ 46:53 Chamath Palihapitiya We are a top 20 consumer of Bedrock.
  • ▶ 54:07 Chamath Palihapitiya The data center costs are higher, and it's the Metas, the Googles, the Apples, the Amazons who have hundreds of billions of free cash.
  • ▶ 57:17 Chamath Palihapitiya So when I first started ADD, my only solution was, uh, Bedrock, which is a service that Amazon provides that allows you to essentially get inference as a service, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:17 Chamath Palihapitiya So when I first started ADD, my only solution was, uh, Bedrock, which is a service that Amazon provides that allows you to essentially get inference as a service, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:35 Chamath Palihapitiya So it's, it's what AWS is, but for this vertical of AI, right? 2 times in the scene

Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton Sep 30, 2025 · 5 mentions

Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire Sep 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:25 David Friedberg And we talked about this at our summit last week where a lot of the creators now that went to Netflix to get good deals or went to Amazon, they're all finding that the budgets are getting cut and that the only way these folks are going to…

Why Are So Many Companies Going Bankrupt In 2025? - David Friedberg Sep 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:15 Jason Calacanis Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I think, but I think it seems like the retail channel getting fleshed out makes sense given the age of Amazon and Shein and Target, yeah.

Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough Aug 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:56 Jason Calacanis I think, but I think it seems like the retail channel getting fleshed out makes sense given the age of Amazon and Shein and Target, you know.

Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History Aug 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:29 Senator Eric Schmitt And that's one of the reasons I wrote the book, the last line of defense that people can get on Amazon right now.
  • ▶ 27:35 Senator Eric Schmitt So part of the point that's outlined in the book, Last Line of Defense, which you can order right now on Amazon, um, the part of the point was exposing all this was,
  • ▶ 59:13 Senator Eric Schmitt I love free speech, which is why I wrote the book, The Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court, available on Amazon right now.

AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken? Aug 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:57 Jason Calacanis In large part, because we had some of these mega hits, the Googles and Facebooks and Amazon worlds, you know, coming to fruition and just going on a tear.

Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy Aug 1, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 41:54 Chamath Palihapitiya I don't know if you guys saw this Amazon deal with the New York Times for twenty-five million dollars. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:03 Jason Calacanis 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. 2 times in the scene

Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan Jul 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:29 Donald J. Trump In a few months, Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft are all investing three hundred and twenty billion dollars or more in data centers and AI infrastructure this year.

Trump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes Law Jul 19, 2025 · 1 mention

Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs Jul 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:57 Travis Kalanick You know, you're on Amazon, right?
  • ▶ 47:22 Jason Calacanis So you could, I was doing a search the other day saying like, Hey, tell me all the autobiographies I haven't bought on Amazon, put them into my, you know, shopping cart and summarize each of them.

IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate Jun 21, 2025 · 32 mentions

  • ▶ 5:14 Chamath Palihapitiya And in the second season that we're doing for Amazon, we did an enormous deal with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • ▶ 11:47 Jason Calacanis Google did it with character AI and Amazon did it with the depth AI. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:21 Thomas Laffont Right, this performance, you can see, okay, so Meta's up 18, Google's down, Nvidia's up eight, Tesla down 20, Apple down 21, Amazon down three, and Microsoft is plus 13, right? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:26:17 Jason Calacanis Andy Jassy didn't come up as like one of the companies we think is going to win at AI, but it might be the company most impacted by deploying AI inside their enterprise. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:26:46 Jason Calacanis He's talking about Alexa coming back with a brand new version, shopping assistance, everything.
  • ▶ 1:28:37 Jason Calacanis Jamath, any thoughts on Amazon? 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:28:39 Jason Calacanis They didn't come up, but obviously AWS crushing it, and they're a major player, and they have their own silicon they're making. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:30:54 Jason Calacanis Thomas and any closing thoughts here on, you know, the sort of old old guard, Microsoft, Amazon, and their employee count and the cuts we're seeing there, uh, and what these companies will look like in the future in terms of revenue per…
  • ▶ 1:36:44 Thomas Laffont Well, I think all four of us would agree that if we could synthetically own AWS, Azure, and GCP, if I could somehow automagically create an index of all three of those businesses, right, over the next five years, you wouldn't need to own… 2 times in the scene

The Formula for Building America's Happiest City: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez | All-In Live Jun 3, 2025 · 1 mention

AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes May 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:50 Chamath Palihapitiya L sevens from Google and Amazon and Meta who come to you with extremely high salary demands and stock demands, and they just don't thrive.

Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro May 17, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:13 Jason Calacanis Bunch of high profile CEOs joined Trump, including friends of the show, Elon, and of course, Dara from Uber, Andy Jassy from Amazon.
  • ▶ 42:58 Jason Calacanis Or do Americans just want cheap stuff on Amazon and an unlimited number of Amazon boxes in their recycle bin? 2 times in the scene

Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World May 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:59 Philippe Laffont But I agree with you, you bring up an interesting point, which is in these bundles, like Amazon Prime Bundle, Apple Bundle,

Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down May 3, 2025 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 34:52 Ryan Petersen Like it's not just Amazon seller selling stuff that you don't need.
  • ▶ 49:14 Jason Calacanis Amazon flip-flopped on a new tariff notification on their websites. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:29:45 Chamath Palihapitiya And Aaron's probably dealt with this, like, it's like, I get a bill from AWS, and it's like, oh, wait, hold on a second, I just
  • ▶ 1:30:51 Ryan Petersen And you'd like to get to what we see today when we did our first machine learning based natural language classification of a product, you take a product URL listing page, a Shopify page or Amazon page and say, Hey, what pro what…

Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery Apr 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein Apr 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson Apr 3, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:50 David Friedberg The big media companies from journalism, Fox News, CNN, to the big platforms, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, to Disney and others are kind of rearranging their pawns on the chessboard based on, and responding to what's going on.
  • ▶ 25:52 David Friedberg Jimmy's getting a deal from Amazon. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:05 Samir Chaudry Netflix is at 8.5%, and in December, after Beast Games, Thursday Night Football, and that movie that they did with The Rock, Amazon

The AI Cold War, Signalgate, CoreWeave IPO, Tariff Endgames, El Salvador Deportations Mar 29, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:15 Gavin Baker So the reason they did it is even three years ago, it was a very stable three-player oligopoly from the cloud computing players in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
  • ▶ 14:13 Jason Calacanis Like, people thought AWS would never work at the beginning. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:16 Jason Calacanis They were like, who's going to trust Amazon with their compute?

White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue Mar 22, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 33:06 Jason Calacanis If you don't know what Wiz is, just imagine you have cloud services like Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google's cloud, Oracle's cloud.
  • ▶ 50:27 David Friedberg Google's cloud revenue is about forty billion a year and Microsoft and Amazon's are both kind of plus or minus a little bit around a hundred billion a year.
  • ▶ 53:04 Chamath Palihapitiya There, you know, the reason Wiz exists, and Jason mentioned this up front, is because of the value that it creates in a multi-cloud, multi-tenant environment across Azure and GCP and AWS, and when the deal was done, one of the things that… 2 times in the scene

Howard Lutnick | All-In DC Mar 20, 2025 · 1 mention

Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz Mar 15, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18:01 Andrew Schulz 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. 3 times in the scene

Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO Mar 8, 2025 · 3 mentions

Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy Mar 1, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:21 David Friedberg Well, yeah, I bought this cheap buzzer on Amazon, the impressive, but it didn't do anything.
  • ▶ 29:44 Jason Calacanis Google down 10%, Amazon nine, Microsoft about eight percent, Meta, Apple, Nvidia, or up to varying degrees.

The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private Feb 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:11 John Collison I would just fact check that it's nowadays not just startups, even though they run on Stripe, but also the world's largest enterprises, Hertz, Amazon, Ford, all these kinds of companies.

JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant Feb 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11:33 Naval Ravikant If you go back to the late nineties, early 2000, very few people would have predicted that we would have ended up with Amazon basically owning all of e-commerce.
  • ▶ 1:39:46 Naval Ravikant Anything that's entertaining, or that is, ah, like, you could read a book, right, on your Kindle or on your iPad, and I think it'd be fine falling asleep.

Science Corner with David Friedberg: GLP-1 Study Shows Encouraging Results Feb 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:37 Chamath Palihapitiya But when I see him on the Sean Ryan podcast, the first thing I do is I go and populate an Amazon cart with all the things that he said, because my instinct is, well, I should do the right thing for myself.

DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s Feb 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09:48 Jason Calacanis YouTube is basically Netflix inside of, uh, inside of Google, and their Google Cloud is essentially AWS inside of Google.
  • ▶ 1:32:57 Chamath Palihapitiya Very articulate, very smart, but when I see him on the Sean Ryan podcast, the first thing I do is I go and populate an Amazon cart with all the things that he said, because my instinct is, well, I should do the right thing for myself.

DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks Jan 31, 2025 · 4 mentions

Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back! Jan 25, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:53 Chamath Palihapitiya The one thing to remember, like, for example, in the inauguration, I know that you saw the picture and it was basically like Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, kind of CEOs, et cetera, founders.
  • ▶ 1:28:58 Thomas Laffont What's interesting of what Amazon and Microsoft is, they're actually signing deals directly with these companies, right, to do what's called back behind the meter, right, types of deals, so they have direct energy access.
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