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GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
- ▶ 8:37 Jason Calacanis Folks, shout out to my guy and congratulations on Robotex and taking the streets in Austin today.
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 59:46 Jason Calacanis And then in the great state of Texas, if you look at this chart, housing prices since the 2022 peak in Austin are down, down, not up sacks, down 27% since March of 2020 20.
Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley
- ▶ 11:51 Jason Calacanis I think that's legal to do here in Austin.
- ▶ 35:13 Jason Calacanis And, you know, this happened here in, you know, where I live now in Austin, Texas. 5 times in the scene
China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan
- ▶ 28:41 Dino Mavrucas We can build 2000 Corsair per year right now at our manufacturing facility in Austin. 2 times in the scene
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- ▶ 1:27:03 Chamath Palihapitiya The data from Austin says once you relax the permitting constraint, you'll get more units built. 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
- ▶ 32:42 Jason Calacanis Like, what do you think about all of us moving to Austin and, like, Texas, you guys? 3 times in the scene
Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
- ▶ 9:55 Travis Kalanick Look, we're here in Austin.
- ▶ 16:27 Jason Calacanis So now you're a resident of Austin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:14 David Friedberg We, we jumped to the music, but you started Dell Computer here in Austin with a thousand bucks. 6 times in the scene
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:13:49 Jason Calacanis Miami, Austin, and Vegas.
- ▶ 1:44:37 Jason Calacanis Are pretty permissive in terms of giving permits and you can build quickly like Elon experienced with his, uh, big, uh, factory in Austin, or is it because of energy?
- ▶ 1:58:42 Chase Lochmiller Your new hometown in Austin.
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 24:12 Jason Calacanis I, two years ago, I moved to, three years ago, I moved to Austin. 2 times in the scene
Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- ▶ 21:19 Adam Carolla I just did Barry's show in Austin, uh, so a couple months ago, and I did Megan's show outside of, uh, Atlanta several weeks ago, and I'll, I'll, I'll go on a limb and say that they both adore me, and I adore them as well.
- ▶ 39:09 Adam Carolla Texas, Austin.
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 0:31 Jason Calacanis Who's now made his way down to Austin. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:10 Jason Calacanis Will the billionaires to Austin tax, wealth tax, drive people, uh, will it make it onto the California ballot?
- ▶ 37:28 Jason Calacanis Well, I actually, I think the reason is if you just, if you think about it, I don't know if you guys have had this experience, but with the delivery business, which was kind of a dog for a long time, obviously AWS is crushing it, but that…
Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
- ▶ 1:09:12 Jason Calacanis This act stands for Besties to Austin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:14 unnamed speaker This is the Besties to Austin. 2 times in the scene
All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
- ▶ 24:40 Tony Hinchcliffe Every single time I find myself looking at the skyline of Austin from my beautiful fucking home with a crazy outdoor terrace and everything the way that I want it, I think about those times.
- ▶ 25:40 David Sacks Is it Austin? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:54 Tony Hinchcliffe And so much is happening, but my point is, is we're doing the exact, we're not like, let's go to Austin and get even crazier.
- ▶ 35:44 Jason Calacanis And you're coming from Austin where we have the best food in the country. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:50 Jason Calacanis Uh, well, many of you know, I moved to Austin, and I got a ranch, and I also lost 40 pounds, so now it's a fat-free ranch.
- ▶ 53:22 David Friedberg When I came and saw your show in Austin, I hadn't seen a Kill Tony show before, so someone I was with said, you should go check this out, and that's how we ended up going. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:38 Tony Hinchcliffe Smackdown was in Austin.
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 1:19:44 Jason Calacanis Alright, speaking of socialism slash communism, are you guys thinking about coming to Austin, my neck of the woods? 3 times in the scene
OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- ▶ 57:58 Jason Calacanis For in San Francisco versus Austin or Houston is incredibly different because the cost of living is dramatically different.
Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- ▶ 29:36 Jason Calacanis I live in Austin, Texas, and if you, your perfect segue there, David, there's really two different countries here. 5 times in the scene
Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
- ▶ 1:05:45 Jason Calacanis In Austin. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:40 Elon Musk You know, like, he came to visit me at the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, and was telling me that it's impossible to have a long-range, ah, semi-truck.
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- ▶ 13:41 David Friedberg So everyone's going to sit quietly and start looking at houses on Zillow in Austin or Miami and be like, where should we move to next year, honey?
Cathie Wood on How AI Can Double GDP, Bull Case for Bitcoin $1M, Elon’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Package
- ▶ 5:09 Cathie Wood Now that autonomous taxis are debuting in the case of Tesla in Austin and San Francisco.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on self-driving's future, changing business model, job displacement
- ▶ 12:49 Dara Khosrowshahi Waymo, Waymo is working with us now in Austin and Atlanta. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:05 Dara Khosrowshahi So in a market like in Austin, uh, or other markets in which we're launching, uh, uh, autonomous, we will turn down the driver recruitment 2 times in the scene
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 1:01:13 David Sacks Well, I mean, I agree with what Freeburg said about this and just another case is city of Austin, which is a deep blue city within a very red state, but they had a very permissive policy towards letting people camp out on the sidewalks…
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 1:06:47 Jason Calacanis I have watched this so, so acutely in my move to Austin.
Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- ▶ 4:29 Travis Kalanick Of course, he, he launched sort of a, a semi, semi pilot of sorts in Austin recently, but there's no other alternatives.
- ▶ 1:24:43 Travis Kalanick I mean, look, you know, I mean, Jason, you know, I go to Austin a lot. 2 times in the scene
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 13:53 Jason Calacanis You got Austin, you got three different providers.
David Friedberg Reacts to Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Mayoral Run
- ▶ 7:44 Jason Calacanis They will see that Austin and Miami are fantastic.
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 47:49 Jason Calacanis They will see that Austin and Miami are fantastic. 2 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 5:51 Jason Calacanis New York, Chicago, Austin, D.C.
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 1:24:25 Jason Calacanis It's right by me in Austin.
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 10:07 Jason Calacanis We're gonna run it back, I think, for maybe F-one Austin.
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC
- ▶ 8:16 Brooke Rollins And he said, why don't you come join my new team down here in Austin?
All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
- ▶ 42:10 Jason Calacanis Austin's unique. 2 times in the scene
Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
- ▶ 31:06 Howard Lutnick I'm in Austin, Texas.
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
- ▶ 1:11:16 Jason Calacanis Are you taking the ketamine in Austin or something?
- ▶ 1:16:33 David Friedberg We're actually doing the show in Austin tonight where we're going to talk with some folks about this general concept where you start out as kind of an independent, say whatever you want.
Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy
- ▶ 19:20 Jason Calacanis They're a thousand bucks and they work here in Austin.
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 1:36:53 Jason Calacanis And if you want to see what happens when you have, like, unlimited land, if you live in Austin, and you see the distance between San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas, and Austin in that triangle, you know, you get 30 minutes outside of the… 2 times in the scene
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 44:20 Jason Calacanis Lex and I have a serious bromance going on in Austin.
Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- ▶ 19:13 Senator Ted Cruz And I think about, you know, my dad, when, when he was a teenage kid in Austin washing dishes, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come to him and, and, and say, Raphael, let me take care of
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 54:36 Mark Pincus You know, a lot of our friends left, went to Austin and other places.
LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
- ▶ 57:22 Jason Calacanis I'm in Austin.
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 55:01 David Friedberg And now they're launching in LA, in Austin, all over the country.
New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 19:35 Jason Calacanis They're just built as much as you want, and where Joe and I live in Austin, 2 times in the scene
2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!
- ▶ 1:04:13 Phil Hellmuth Because you did not vote for that, because you didn't vote for either candidate, but you did vote for some other bullshit like stuff in Austin.
Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- ▶ 49:32 Jason Calacanis But not in Austin, according to you. 3 times in the scene
Dueling Presidential interviews, SpaceX’s big catch, Robotaxis, Uber buying Expedia?, Nuclear NIMBY
- ▶ 38:40 David Friedberg I got to go on a vacation to Austin.
- ▶ 53:29 Jason Calacanis Putting a small nuclear reactor, 200 miles outside of Austin, Texas, go.
- ▶ 1:08:17 David Sacks Would you want one 10 miles outside Austin?
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 4:24 Jason Calacanis Congratulations on coming to Austin and being on Joe Rogan.
Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- ▶ 14:37 Jason Calacanis Producers here in Austin.
Tekedra Mawakana | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 1:21 David Friedberg We can now see Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing services in Phoenix, LA, San Francisco, in the Bay Area, Austin, and I think on X, you announced five billion in additional committed funding from Alphabet.
- ▶ 13:20 Tekedra Mawakana Going to Austin.
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 56:09 Jason Calacanis You know, a part of my move to Austin is I'm building a theater to record the podcast in, and I'm building an incubator space, and we're moving back to in person.
Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
- ▶ 2:06 Jason Calacanis I, uh, we moved to Austin a little earlier this year. 4 times in the scene
Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
- ▶ 8:21 Chamath Palihapitiya Were you able to find good vegetarian or veggie options in Austin? 3 times in the scene
E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- ▶ 0:29 Chamath Palihapitiya Eating a bison rib at the Salt Lick in Austin, which is a true story.
E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more
- ▶ 1:34:45 David Friedberg Maybe when we do our, our Austin poker night, we can stop over and see it.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 25:33 David Friedberg I was in Austin this week, and the thing that shocked me the most was how cheap gas was at the gas station.
E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
- ▶ 50:40 Jason Calacanis Of 20 or so cruise vehicles causing a massive traffic jam at an intersection in Austin.
- ▶ 57:28 Jason Calacanis Cruises currently in San Francisco, Austin, and Phoenix.
- ▶ 1:08:36 Jason Calacanis When you have some modern city where it's a grid based system, Austin falls into this as well for a large portion of Austin.
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- ▶ 10:09 Jason Calacanis And he lives in Texas, well-known public, but he's in the Austin area.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:34:08 Bill Gurley I was walking down the street in Austin a few months ago, and a guy came up to me and goes, uh, are you Bill Gurley?
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 1:20:19 Jason Calacanis Wait, if I become mayor of San Francisco or Austin?
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 42:59 Jason Calacanis And then outside of Austin, you, you kind of have that same thing.
#AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
- ▶ 18:39 David Sacks San Francisco and the Bay Area had a lock on the tech ecosystem, and because the political forces there defined tech as the enemy, they basically have driven it out, and as a result, you now have emergent tech hubs all over the United… 2 times in the scene
#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
- ▶ 0:32 Joe Lonsdale It's good to be here from Austin for a day.
- ▶ 1:24 Joe Lonsdale I have a policy group in Austin and we have, you know, we, we follow the homeless population there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:49 Joe Lonsdale Uh, you know, I'll, I'll give you one other example because Elon was speaking today, Austin infrastructure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Joe Lonsdale My, my friends, Barry Weiss and Neil Ferguson and I, uh, along with a couple, a bunch of others, are starting a new university in Austin.
Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
- ▶ 56:35 Jason Calacanis Hey, you know, listen, I, I know you're super busy, but I wanted to ask you about the move to Texas, because I've been thinking about it, uh, Austin.
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 48:01 Jason Calacanis And obviously, when we were in Miami, there's no COVID in Austin, there's no COVID.
E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more
- ▶ 1:20:47 Jason Calacanis I'm gonna probably pick New York for mine or Austin and then Freeburg.
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 3:47 David Sacks But I, you know, I recently ran a Twitter survey where I asked Miami or Austin, and Miami won by about 52%. 3 times in the scene
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 30:52 David Friedberg So, Zach, you put out a tweet saying, often in Miami, are you, are you in the active transition phase, or where are you at?
E39: West coast super drought & climate crisis, Nuclear virtue signaling, chaos in SF & more
- ▶ 59:02 Jason Calacanis I want to live in a, I want to live in a reasonable place, and it seems to me that Austin and Miami are purple, you know, and they're not communist.
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 56:02 Jason Calacanis I mean, I, it was very strange in Austin in terms of these COVID, uh, dead enders who just will not let it go. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:25 Jason Calacanis Oh, wait, Austin, Texas has thousands of them out of a cave every night at dusk, and he wouldn't let it go. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:25 David Friedberg Cal, do you think you're gonna go to Miami or Austin or something? 3 times in the scene
E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
- ▶ 2:29 Jason Calacanis Um, so I left to go on a little trip to go to Austin to see some friends and then Miami to see some friends.
- ▶ 23:41 Jason Calacanis Then I got to Austin, and when I'm in Austin, I'm walking down the street, I'm the only person in Austin wearing a mask, and somebody points at me and goes, 3 times in the scene
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 11:52 Jason Calacanis To give you an idea, just like experience wise, when I was in Austin,
- ▶ 1:04:19 Jason Calacanis And as a point, going to Austin, they are now dealing with tent city problems like LA and the same problems that they're dealing with, we're dealing with in San Francisco. 4 times in the scene
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