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China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan
- ▶ 36:11 Dino Mavrucas We're talking to, um, our allies in Asia, obviously in Europe and in the Middle East right now about getting not only our products there, but also how do we stand up, you know, domestic production in those countries?
Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 1:09:33 Chamath Palihapitiya Instead, what happened was there was this explosion in Asia and specifically in Australia, which kind of surprised me because I would have thought that those folks are a little bit even further out on the DSA, you know, far left.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s $56B Plan to Take Over eBay
- ▶ 46:20 Ryan Cohen It's growing very quickly in the U S it's very popular in Asia and eBay live should be significantly larger.
All-In's Best Ideas Pitch Competition: 4 Investors Present Their Top Trades Live
- ▶ 6:45 Aaron Cowan So, if you look at where it is from Shanghai, it's shorter than Macau and Singapore, which is the two big gaming options in Asia, and for us, and from, uh, Beijing, about the same distance as Macau, 2 times in the scene
SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
- ▶ 1:31:31 Gavin Baker It is terrible for Asia.
Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
- ▶ 21:09 Brad Gerstner This is a massive problem for Asia.
They're Opening the Stock Market to Everyone. Here's What That Actually Means
- ▶ 45:57 Chamath Palihapitiya It's a little bit easier in Asia, but it's complicated.
Binance CEO: 4 Months in Prison, $4 Billion Fine, and What Comes Next
- ▶ 17:45 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) I think it was wrong, like, beginning of 22,005, um, again, the same, uh, friends I had, I met in Japan, they were talking about starting a new company, a new, uh, fintech company, and they were in Asia, right?
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:35:49 Adam Goldstein Asia's been very active.
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 16:27 Brian Armstrong Cross border, especially cause there's a lot of these companies, you know, they might be buying goods from Asia or Europe, trying to sell it in their shop in Brazil or whatever it is.
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 15:18 Satya Nadella So just imagine this tech making a difference in how the governments, ah, really parlay the taxpayer money into services for citizens, and there's, if there's efficiency gains, that's probably a couple of points of GDP growth right there,…
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.
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 44:49 Andrew Ross Sorkin We will probably spend more to buy less technologically capable cars 10 years from now than the next time we all, you know, if you go on vacation to Europe or Asia and get in the back of one of these other cars.
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America
- ▶ 19:09 Eric Schmidt When you're in Asia, they are envious of us.
- ▶ 20:34 Eric Schmidt It's much worse in Asia.
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 8:37 Jason Calacanis But, uh, yeah, I'm really excited, and then we're going to launch it in Asia next, so we'll have it in three cities.
Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
- ▶ 11:07 Donald J. Trump And it's actually hard to believe you don't think of it, but Asia is very close to Alaska, relatively speaking.
- ▶ 23:08 Donald J. Trump And we also have to watch Europe, Asia, and all foreign countries so that they don't make rules and regulations that likewise make it impossible for you to do business and where you'd have to make everything in AI cater to them.
- ▶ 33:36 Donald J. Trump And in Asia, and now we're getting it back.
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 1:00:54 David Friedberg The research function I think is also being rewritten around the world in Europe and in China and in Asia, there are independent research institutions that get research funding that can show up and say, Hey, this institution is just being…
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 1:17:52 Jason Calacanis You think about the flight to the Middle East or Singapore, Asia.
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 1:15:32 Jason Calacanis And the third thing, because I've been talking to a lot of geographies in the Middle East, Japan, Australia, Singapore, et cetera, Asia.
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 25:20 Chamath Palihapitiya Do you guys think that if 47% of all of the AI capability and horsepower is being shipped to three Asian countries, 2 times in the scene
The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- ▶ 32:06 David Sacks We turned that baby dragon into a Drogon sized monster that can now challenge us in Asia and across the world for primacy.
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 15:00 David Friedberg And there starts to become a crossover point where it actually makes economic sense for the company to make the LEDs here instead of sourcing them from Asia.
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 1:13:19 Antonio Gracias In the best case, it's kind of a, a land we're in Asia.
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
- ▶ 1:02:24 Eric Swalwell A foreign minister, uh, in Asia said to me, uh, in the past year, he said, Eric, he said, you know, the population of the United States is three billion people.
Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit
- ▶ 21:13 John Mearsheimer And furthermore, by getting bogged down in Ukraine, and now bogged down in the Middle East, it's become very difficult for us to pivot to Asia to deal with China, which is the principal threat that we face.
- ▶ 25:11 John Mearsheimer We dominate the Western Hemisphere, and what China has begun to do as it's got increasingly powerful economically is translate that economic might into military might, and it is trying to dominate Asia.
JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 35:05 Chamath Palihapitiya They're coming from places in, you know, near, around near Asia, and a lot of places that you wouldn't normally think people coming from, Middle East, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
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.
E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- ▶ 8:35 David Friedberg You're not, I mean, have you visited many cities in China or other parts of Asia?
E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
- ▶ 1:53 Jason Calacanis In Asia, they mentioned how Alipay, WeChat, and Paytm are super apps.
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 9:01 Jason Calacanis They got to go around South Africa to get things to Europe, uh, from Asia, thousands of extra miles from what I understand.
- ▶ 11:11 Ryan Petersen Most of that is going Asia to Europe. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:46 Ryan Petersen The price of freight from Asia to the U S 2 times in the scene
In conversation with Dean Phillips
- ▶ 1:12:12 Dean Phillips You got to look at Scandinavian countries and Asian countries and how experiential learning, uh, learning, learning from the best, most extraordinary educators in the world through screens on occasion, but to experience, you know, AI is…
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 37:01 Jared Kushner Uh, they're doing a lot of the, you know, the, the companies that are dominant in the U S and in Asia, and now they're building them for the middle East there.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 25:15 David Sacks Um, I guess the question would be, uh, will the U S have to effectively recognize that they have a sphere of influence in Asia in order to avoid a war?
All-In Summit: In conversation with Larry Summers
- ▶ 19:27 Larry Summers Certainly than the hand that societies in Asia where they're only going to be half as many people a century from now are playing.
Elon Musk: Ukraine, X, the creator economy, China, AI, & more | All-In Summit 2023
E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more
- ▶ 33:14 David Sacks North of Russia, basically, from Europe to Asia.
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 32:01 David Sacks So you now have the cementing of this giant alliance in Asia between China, Russia, and Iran.
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 1:03:32 David Sacks The United States out of Asia, and the future that he predicted 20 years ago is the future that's come true, and I think the, you know, all the constructive engagers, I think, has some egg on their face.
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:27:58 David Sacks I think there's growing realization in Washington that the Ukraine war is a little bit of a misdirect and that we need to basically get back to doing what we were doing before the war, which is pivoting to Asia.
- ▶ 1:36:41 David Sacks Because it's interfering with the U S's pivot to Asia.
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 1:29:02 Chamath Palihapitiya I was in the Middle East and then I was in Asia and they have very different taxation schemes, right?
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 50:37 David Sacks And that is going to challenge us for privacy in Asia.
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 1:21:03 David Sacks So, you know, and the reason is, we don't want China extending its footprint in Asia.
#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: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 17:37 Antonio Gracias If you, if you, if you calculate return on invested capital and you think about this carefully, what happens is these long supply chains to Asia, they have huge capital deployed, but if capital is cheap, you do that because the piece part…
E82: All-In Summit: Claire Cormier Thielke on China + Q&A with Flexport's Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 45:40 Ryan Petersen Well, remember, uh, 50% of all the world's air freight flies in the belly of passenger planes, and there's way less people traveling to and from Asia than there were. 2 times in the scene
E76: Elon vs. Twitter
- ▶ 19:34 David Friedberg So, you know, in Europe and Asia, many companies go public, families own them for a very long period of time, as you guys know, they're, they remain significant owners, they don't sell off the shares.
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 1:11:14 David Sacks I mean, that's really where the pivot to Asia is what we thought we were supposed to be doing until quite recently.
- ▶ 1:15:18 David Sacks So the pivot to Asia, as Obama said, was fundamentally correct, but we have not followed through and executed it, and now our attention is distracted and bogged down by what's happening in Europe. 3 times in the scene
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 1:01:31 David Sacks Standing up to China in the sense that we do not want them dominating Asia and becoming a peer competitor to the United States that can then challenge us all over the world.
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 1:16:23 Chamath Palihapitiya But what's going to be very, very difficult is the impact that this has on emerging markets in Southeast Asia, Asia, Africa could be really, really deleterious for some amount of time.
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 45:49 Chamath Palihapitiya Those could be in Asia.
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 41:14 Balaji Srinivasan Asia was the center of the world. 4 times in the scene
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 35:18 Chamath Palihapitiya By Biden asked Putin if it was okay for us to stage military resources from, you know, from, from, from close quarters in Asia, then, uh, Putin was like, no, go. 2 times in the scene
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 17:05 David Sacks Of 2000 last year when I was saying we need to wear masks because I was looking at the success of the Asian countries and some of the data coming out of that.
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.
E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more
- ▶ 35:02 Chamath Palihapitiya 27% of bidders were from Europe and 18% were in Asia.
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 12:02 David Sacks And they took advantage of the crisis to build more client states in Asia and Africa with promises of vaccines and money.
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 36:43 Jason Calacanis It's almost as a term, like the term saying Oriental to describe people from Asia.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 43:20 David Sacks I think the immediate goal is to, um, is to assert its hegemony over Asia and to kick the U S out of that region.
E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
- ▶ 8:46 David Sacks The initial response of just about every country, uh, with a few notable exceptions, um, in, in Asia that had previous experience with SARS, but
- ▶ 1:10:11 David Sacks We shouldn't have to make it the law, and I think we, we should because there's still people who aren't adopting it, but it's the lowest cost thing we can do, and if you look at the Asian countries that have controlled the virus, every…