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Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
- ▶ 3:45 David Sacks You may recall that President Obama even retweeted this, and many other Democratic Party officials did the same thing.
Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 1:23 David Sacks And basically the verdict on Rahm is that he's kind of a throwback to the Clinton-Obama DNC. 2 times in the scene
Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
- ▶ 0:05 Jason Calacanis He was the senior advisor of Bill Clinton, last president, presided over zero national debt, and he was Obama's chief of staff, mayor of Chi-town, ambassador to my favorite country to visit Japan under President Biden.
- ▶ 1:32 Jason Calacanis What did you learn under Clinton and Obama and, you know, these two, what I would say are the last two sane presidents we seem to have had who were moderates in my mind. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 David Friedberg Did Obama export 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:14 Rahm Emanuel I don't think Obama representing our cultural attractions around the globe.
- ▶ 1:09:42 Rahm Emanuel I, I spent my whole life Bill Clinton replacing George Bush, Barack Obama competing against John McCain, flipping 31 districts from red congressman to blue congressman so Nancy Pelosi will be the speaker. 2 times in the scene
Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?!
- ▶ 24:05 Nate Silver They haven't won the close elections recently, except for Obama, who 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:57 Nate Silver Um, the establishment doesn't seem to have an understanding of the fact that, like, almost every election now, Obama in 2012 was, I guess, the exception.
- ▶ 38:19 Nate Silver Obama presented a more optimistic take about, like, kind of like the American spirit, right?
- ▶ 58:16 Nate Silver So if you're an avatar for that brand, then like, you know, I, look, I think the best candidates, even Obama in 2008, obviously not even Obama, Obama was a highly effective, one of the, you know, generationally charismatic candidates, but…
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 43:56 Jason Calacanis He's got that Obama-Trump charisma, and he is going to destroy your party from the inside out.
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- ▶ 38:37 Jason Calacanis Judge Rogers, who's doing this, sixty-one-year-old Obama appointee, politics has played a role, Sachs, they have had to tell the jury, like, however you feel about these individuals politically, whatever, please put that aside.
“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War
- ▶ 4:55 Graham Allison He's tried to sell that war to, uh, Obama, uh, to Trump one, to Biden, and how he succeeded in mesmerizing
Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom
- ▶ 23:54 Jason Calacanis You, you were a super, uh, funder of, uh, Obama. 2 times in the scene
War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 18:30 Emil Michael Um, and then if you remember, Obama would take out some of these Al Qaeda leaders with drones on their balcony and things like that.
- ▶ 36:49 Jason Calacanis I voted for the moderates, um, uh, uh, obviously, uh, Clinton and Obama.
Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- ▶ 1:33:46 David Sacks Rumler, chief, who is a chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel under Obama, was a key advisor and backup executive as well.
Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
- ▶ 59:50 Jason Calacanis Uh, Obama wanted to do it in his second term.
Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs
- ▶ 1:06:27 Chamath Palihapitiya Remember when we did the interview at the All in Summit where Tulsi talked about the Obama documents? 3 times in the scene
Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- ▶ 52:22 Adam Carolla Now, I disagree with Barack Obama.
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 34:20 David Sacks Nick, we need to use that meme of Obama giving himself a medal.
Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
- ▶ 1:09:03 Howard Lutnick The society under Obama 4 times in the scene
Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
- ▶ 1:29:48 Chamath Palihapitiya But there was something that was massively discontinuous that happened in Obama.
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 1:27:59 Jason Calacanis Uh, that's something Obama wanted to do in the second term and never did.
Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- ▶ 1:20:27 Tucker Carlson I mean, having lived through Y two K and Obama, Y two K we thought was gonna be a disaster. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- ▶ 42:22 Jason Calacanis Clinton Foundation, book deals, Obama's book deals, Netflix deals.
Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
- ▶ 37:18 Jason Calacanis The classic Democratic Party, I'll call it the Clinton-Obama Party, you know, hey, we're socially liberal, but we're not, like, absolutely crazy and insane. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:29 Jason Calacanis We're hearing that Obama and maybe some other people wanted to have a quick primary, and what do you think the outcome would have been?
The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
- ▶ 51:11 unnamed speaker Can you highlight the moments of the American presidencies, the American administrations, Obama, Biden, Donald Trump, and how they have supported the cause, and what's different today?
Joe Manchin Exposes The Chaos Inside Biden’s White House
- ▶ 9:48 Joe Manchin Well, let's go back to 2013 when Harry Reid, because of Barack Obama, couldn't get his appointments done for his, for his cabinet, and things of that sort, and some judges.
- ▶ 12:42 Chamath Palihapitiya I want to go and ask you a very specific question that's framed in the book about Obama, but before I do that, let's just stay on Biden for a second. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:46 Chamath Palihapitiya Let me, Joe, if it's possible, I want to just go a little bit back, and I want to start with Obama. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:53 Joe Manchin All the Joint Chiefs of Staff were there and explaining, and Obama wanted to get rid of it, ok? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:22 Chamath Palihapitiya President Obama 5 times in the scene
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 13:16 Chamath Palihapitiya Obama, Obama won with nothing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:43 Brad Gerstner They averaged 300,000 a year, peaking at 400,000 under Obama. 2 times in the scene
The Next Bubble Is Already Here - Chamath Palihapitiya
- ▶ 1:28 Chamath Palihapitiya Through Obama, a lot of people started to move their allocations away from 6040, and they started to make more and more investments further out on the risk curve.
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 14:08 Chamath Palihapitiya Through Obama, a lot of people started to move their allocations away from sixty-forty, and they started to make more and more investments further out on the risk curve.
- ▶ 1:24:36 Jason Calacanis So I do have a concern of centralized government and overreaching federal governments, especially with the way executive power is being deployed these days from Obama to Biden and to Trump.
Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech
Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She’s Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies
- ▶ 6:40 Tulsi Gabbard It was pulled back from publishing, ah, hours before it would have hit then President Obama's desk. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:36 Tulsi Gabbard There is so much evidence that disproves this manufactured, uh, politicized intelligence assessment ordered by President Obama that was very conveniently hid by John Brennan, James Clapper, uh, and James
- ▶ 14:39 Tulsi Gabbard That was, uh, uh, President Obama, you can imagine the feeling amongst the Democrats. 2 times in the scene
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win
Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- ▶ 56:31 Tucker Carlson I, I would hear Obama talk, and I always really liked Obama before he became a senator, but I would hear him talk, and I'd be like, wow, that's animated by hate, and it would be in this, this is your captain speaking voice, but it didn't… 4 times in the scene
The Hidden Truth About the US Energy Grid: Subsidies, Demand & Rising Prices - Chris Wright
- ▶ 7:44 Chris Wright And then about, Obama administration really launched it, but this sort of overwrought
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 48:51 Jason Calacanis There were a series of loans that Obama set up for, uh, Tesla, Solyndra, and, um, Fisker.
Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
- ▶ 22:18 Senator Eric Schmitt That's what Barack Obama did.
- ▶ 35:54 Senator Eric Schmitt It was used as a predicate to spy, Barack Obama authorizes to spy on a presidential candidate. 2 times in the scene
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 58:08 Jason Calacanis You can see Trump's term in pink, and then Biden's in blue, and then before that, Obama's. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 41:11 Jason Calacanis Even Obama was centralizing and consolidating power.
- ▶ 1:03:33 Ben Shapiro If things take a downturn, then the backlash is going to be a lot stronger than anything that, that any of us can say about the failures of Zora Mamdani, because what it's going to be is, look, the rich got richer, and we got poorer, and…
- ▶ 1:25:18 Gavin Baker Obama ran on them to be a slightly lesser degree.
Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
- ▶ 34:23 Donald J. Trump They talked about the carbon footprint, and then Obama hops onto a seven 47 Air Force One and flies to Hawaii to play a round of golf and comes back.
Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance
Trump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes Law
- ▶ 14:17 Gavin Baker But the reality is like, even when Obama controlled the house, the Senate, and was the most popular democratic president of our lifetime, I don't think federal government tax receipts has a percentage of GDP got above 18, 19%.
Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- ▶ 1:03:28 Keith Rabois That's a person, Obama, a Clinton, 2 times in the scene
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 1:27:13 Jason Calacanis When he says he's gonna deport twenty million people, cut it to 500 to a million, whatever Obama did,
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 1:12:34 Chamath Palihapitiya Then Trump picked him out of the fed to be chair, but then he was reappointed by Biden.
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 1:22:25 Jason Calacanis Freeberg, it seems like the great innovation here might also be the American public getting upside when we gave loans to Solyndra and Tesla and Fisker and a bunch of people for battery powered, you know, energy under Obama.
Senator Ron Johnson on the Senate showdown over Trump's Big Beautiful Bill | All-In Interview
- ▶ 14:06 Senator Ron Johnson I went back to Clinton in 1998, Obama in 2014, and Trump in 2019.
- ▶ 17:03 Senator Ron Johnson That's been Obama to be 6.2, Trump's 2019 6.5.
- ▶ 49:35 Senator Ron Johnson You know, Obama, his average, he averaged about nine hundred billion dollars a year deficit.
- ▶ 55:55 Senator Ron Johnson Outlays under Obama plus stuff. 2 times in the scene
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 9:33 Ben Shapiro We've known that for a while, and he's really signaling a shift away from the Obama-Biden policy toward a lot of these places where Biden liked to say the word democracy and then immediately divide off from Saudi Arabia on the basis of…
- ▶ 53:40 Jason Calacanis Obama, a trillion a year.
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 1:35:04 David Friedberg He did not get a call from Obama?
The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- ▶ 1:41 Jason Calacanis Uh, and, uh, with us, of course, Larry Summers, economist, former treasury secretary under Clinton, former director of the National Economic Council under Obama, and the president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006.
- ▶ 1:09:55 David Sacks The White House listens when he calls, whereas he couldn't get his calls returned by the Obama administration.
- ▶ 1:16:23 David Sacks You know how this started is because Ezra quoted, hold on a second, Ezra, you misquoted something Chamath said on another podcast where all he said was that I can get my phone calls returned by this White House where I couldn't with Obama…
DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 4:34 Antonio Gracias I mean, exactly what, you know, what the, what Bill Clinton talked about, what Barack Obama talked about, what all presidents, but maybe President Biden talked about, uh, going back in time.
- ▶ 1:32:13 Ben Shapiro And if that happens, then you will see a resurgent left led by a Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party, not a sort of technocratic, Obama-esque, you know, Ezra Klein, abundance, liberalism wing. 2 times in the scene
The AI Cold War, Signalgate, CoreWeave IPO, Tariff Endgames, El Salvador Deportations
- ▶ 48:36 Gavin Baker The second thing is, it's just interesting to me there's so much doubt about this when the inspector generals of, you know, both Biden and Obama, you know, said there were hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse, and I…
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
- ▶ 32:42 Chamath Palihapitiya Because if you look under all the programs, if you could have lobbied Obama in those critical years of the GFC.
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- ▶ 58:16 Chamath Palihapitiya Rahm Emanuel archetype in the Obama White House, I think.
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 49:51 Jason Calacanis Obama, Trump, one point 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:24 Jason Calacanis Is this something where we're making the government too big, and now we've got the government competing with BlackRock and Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and they're gonna be on the board of technology companies and energy companies and…
- ▶ 1:03:57 Antonio Gracias That was set up under Obama actually to do this, to create an audit function to the government.
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 10:08 Jason Calacanis Little known, the, uh, former, uh, former roommate of Obama.
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 19:57 Jason Calacanis Just do an Obama impersonation, because that's what he's doing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:16 Jason Calacanis And this is why, you know, like, listen, I don't want to make this a, uh, Vivek bashing, you know, event here, but I think Vivek perfected over time doing what Obama did, which is behind a teleprompter and talking with a cadence that kind…
- ▶ 1:00:56 Jason Calacanis Elon, I remember when we were coming up, Elon was so excited to meet Obama, that first presidency.
- ▶ 1:06:08 David Friedberg Oh, Obama's showing up. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:49 Jason Calacanis My favorite is when they took the Obama conversation with him, and they just went to town with, like, great voiceovers on it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:06 Donald J. Trump Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, Justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden,
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
From Skeptic to Supporter: How This Billionaire Got ‘Red-Pilled’ by Trump
- ▶ 1:38 Mark Pincus Speech, and, and then you see Biden say that's why he had to run a second time, and you see Obama go to even see Biden bring it up again in the beginning of the DNC, and it's one of their pillars, and they clearly know that they're…
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 8:35 Mark Pincus Biden say that's why he had to run a second time, and you see Obama go to even see Biden bring it up again in the beginning of the DNC, and it's one of their pillars, and they clearly know that they're misrepresenting things.
LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
- ▶ 1:03:28 Chamath Palihapitiya I think it's fair to say that in the Obama and Biden administrations, when the winds were blowing towards censorship, they were part of that machinery. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45:52 Jason Calacanis For those of you who don't know, Obama, I think, did two million people in eight years, so this is not like a, uh, partisan thing.
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 1:43:53 Gavin Baker Obama deported, I think, more than two million people. 2 times in the scene
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 28:28 Chamath Palihapitiya Uh, I think the biggest political loser was Barack Obama. 4 times in the scene
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 18:52 Chamath Palihapitiya If I think of all of the people in the political infrastructure of America that I have met and spent time with, from Bill Clinton on, I remember sitting and having dinner with Barack Obama the day of Brexit and getting a note that he read…
- ▶ 39:03 David Sacks It's not Barack Obama with all due respect.
- ▶ 1:06:02 Chamath Palihapitiya The person on the Democratic side where I feel the most disappointment after all of this is Barack Obama. 13 times in the scene
Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- ▶ 2:13 Mark Cuban I voted for George W. twice, then I voted for, um, Obama twice, and then I voted for, um, Clinton and Biden.
- ▶ 11:45 Mark Cuban And so it's 2007, and we're friends, and nothing happens between then until whenever he started going crazy on Twitter, and um, all the Obama stuff, and everything, and the birth certificate, and the birth, the birth of stuff.
- ▶ 25:44 David Sacks According to ChatGPT, which is under Obama. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:45 Mark Cuban Now, Obama was the deporter-in-chief. 2 times in the scene
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