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every year anyone Jason Calacanis 26Chamath Palihapitiya 17David Friedberg 11Tekedra Mawakana 1Ro Khanna 1Mark Pincus 1Brad Gerstner 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AOL comes up
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 48:47 Jason Calacanis Challenged, but, you know, interesting businesses, AOLs, Legacy Business, Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo, Meetup.com, and they just went public last month.
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- ▶ 22:44 Jason Calacanis It was called AOL and CompuServe.
Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 28:27 Jason Calacanis AOL for 1.4 billion, Vimeo for 1.4 billion, WeTransfer Eventbrite, Britecode, Evernote.
Dan Loeb: The Lost Art of Short Selling, and Why Stock Picking is Back
- ▶ 14:58 Jason Calacanis AOL. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- ▶ 21:08 David Friedberg It's going to be the equivalent of everyone on AOL instant messenger, Yahoo instant messenger.
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 1:06:15 Jason Calacanis What do we take away from what we all saw, Chamath and I up close and personal with AOL and their partnerships?
The Hidden Crisis Modern Men Are Facing - Chamath Palihapitiya
- ▶ 5:37 David Friedberg I mentioned when I was in college that year, in 1996, when that, that woman got lost in AOLIM.
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 10:53 David Friedberg There was this woman who was in the room next to me, and she was on AOLIM. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:04 David Friedberg I mentioned when I was in college that year, in 1996, when that, that woman got lost in AOLIM.
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 13:17 Jason Calacanis You would have had to have AOL or geo cities have a different patchwork, like you're saying in regulation.
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 1:54 Mark Pincus Back to, like, AOL?
New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:09 Jason Calacanis So like Yahoo or AOL, like some legacy company.
Tekedra Mawakana | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 28:58 Tekedra Mawakana I know we were there too, but, like, other kinds of tech companies, I know every kind of company is stressful.
500K Subscriber Livestream! | All-In Podcast
- ▶ 25:13 Jason Calacanis Uh, Chamath, uh, you came out of nowhere, uh, to find yourself in, you know, the room where it happens at AOL, room where it happens in Ventureland and at Facebook.
Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser
- ▶ 59:15 David Friedberg Maybe open AI is AOL, right?
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 20:56 Chamath Palihapitiya Jason, you and I worked at AOL in a moment where AOL paid a very dear cost for essentially round-tripping revenue. 2 times in the scene
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 1:03:00 Jason Calacanis We wound up selling the collection of those blogs to AOL. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:52 Chamath Palihapitiya When, when it was merged into AOL to create AOL music was this guy, Kevin Conroy, great guy.
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 30:12 Jason Calacanis No, I had the same thing happen to me on AOL. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:32 Chamath Palihapitiya So I remember Jason, when you and I were at AOL, this is the first time I met Omid. 2 times in the scene
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 1:40:30 Chamath Palihapitiya The problem that I think it creates is, you know, we had a, you know, when I first came to the United States, my, the, the company that I worked at, AOL, they were the ones that believed in a fundamentally closed internet, right? 2 times in the scene
E150: Israel/Gaza escalating or not? EU censorship regime, Penn donors revolt, GLP-1 hype cycle
- ▶ 51:01 Jason Calacanis Which was inspired by Section two 30 here in the US, common carrier laws, where the common carriers be those AOL, Yahoo, Google, Facebook are not responsible for what individuals post on their platforms.
All-In Summit: Ro Khanna on China, political reform, major challenges facing the US and more
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 36:32 Jason Calacanis And we wound up selling it to all of us.
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- ▶ 34:04 Jason Calacanis So the reality of DEI that I've seen up close and personal when I was at AOL, I've told the story before.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 24:47 Chamath Palihapitiya I was in the middle of AIM.
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 12:46 Brad Gerstner But if you invest in, in Yahoo or InfoSeq or AOL or Excite.
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 22:34 Jason Calacanis 1020 years from now, Chamath and I got a front row seat to that because there's a natural audience to every single service for AOL. 4 times in the scene
E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
- ▶ 1:27:18 Jason Calacanis If you look at the Mozilla Foundation, they took Netscape out of AOL.
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
- ▶ 43:18 Chamath Palihapitiya Somebody told me in my twenties when I was at AOL, he said, you know, if you're, because at the time I, you know, I grew up on welfare.
#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 55:46 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, and in Silicon Valley at the time, you know, it, it really, there is a very monocultural aspect of, you know, folks from a few schools, you know, folks having worked at a few companies, um, and I had neither, you know, I worked,…
E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 14:29 Jason Calacanis It's not Reddit. 2 times in the scene
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 53:39 David Friedberg They never used any of it because Google, the first, the first thing Google did is they did a massive search syndication deal with AOL that paid them hundreds of millions of dollars, and that funded the business.
E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
- ▶ 53:34 David Friedberg I remember an AOL is no right way to do it.
- ▶ 55:30 Chamath Palihapitiya I remember when I had to do my first layoff, uh, at, at AOL, um, and, and there was a lot of those rifts. 2 times in the scene
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 34:56 Chamath Palihapitiya Then you needed AOL in order to enable another set.
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 13:13 Chamath Palihapitiya There was a, there was a waypoint there that's important, which is that when that happened in Napster, we, we ran a company called Winamp and it was part of AOL. 2 times in the scene
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 46:50 David Friedberg So remember Verizon bought AOL and Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 15:41 Chamath Palihapitiya So look, I mean, for 20 years, I've run these kinds of businesses, like from, from Winamp to AIM and ICQ to then, you know, at Facebook. 2 times in the scene
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 4:25 Jason Calacanis Uh, we've been friends since we both did a very brief tour at AOL.