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Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 59:36 Gavin Baker Blackstone, KKR, these firms, Goldman Sachs, they would not, would not have done this. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken Elections
- ▶ 17:25 Chamath Palihapitiya And I thought that this was the moment where you just turn around and you flip it to the Blackstones, the Brookfields of the world, to the Googles of the world, let them develop it.
Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
- ▶ 2:35 Bill Ackman So we actually called a friend who worked at Blackstone, and Steve Schwartzman agreed to write a fairness opinion on what Wendy's would be worth if we spun off Tim Hortons.
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 16:16 Chamath Palihapitiya They're going to be the next Blackstone, which I think is an incredible feat.
Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
- ▶ 10:56 David Sacks You see, uh, Blackstone making huge investments, real estate companies.
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 1:07:33 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, you'll also see potentially home prices correct because if the president is successful in making sure Blackstone can't buy houses, but on the other side, people are earning more and they can enter with interest rates that are now a…
Inside Orlando Bravo’s Private Equity Playbook: How to Build a Top Firm
- ▶ 26:22 Chamath Palihapitiya Blackstone, Apollo, KKR, Carlyle.
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 1:28:31 Chamath Palihapitiya Go talk to Brookfield and Blackstone, they'll tell you.
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 1:23:52 Philippe Laffont And I had read, I don't know if it's true, that the largest fund that was ever launched was the, one of the first Blackstone fund was 1.3.
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 49:32 Chamath Palihapitiya Would it really change the underwriting that Blackstone and all these other companies will do?
New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 36:38 Gavin Baker Like, it would have been cool if, you know, Blackstone or KKR or whoever in, oh, seven, oh, eight, oh, nine, 2010, you know, could have had their fund up on, like, the Fidelity marketplace for subscription.
Kamala surges, Trump at NABJ, recession fears, Middle East escalation, Ackman postpones IPO
- ▶ 1:08:19 Chamath Palihapitiya So companies like Blackstone, companies like KKR, companies like Apollo, what have they proven? 2 times in the scene
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 51:56 Jared Kushner I brought, uh, Steve Schwartzman from Blackstone came.
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- ▶ 1:04:15 David Sacks One major real estate guy told me that the, the big guys like, you know, Blackstone, he, the words he used was they are throwing their keys at the bank, meaning they are so underwater, they're not even gonna bother trying to figure out a…
E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- ▶ 1:11:26 David Sacks So it was a local broker and then someone from Blackstone and they're fans of the pod and just came up to me
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 1:20:37 Chamath Palihapitiya And then Citadel, the hedge fund, probably something like a big bulge bracket bank or Blackstone, probably Blackstone, in fact, because now Blackstone can plug it into a trillion dollar asset machine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:05 Chamath Palihapitiya Combination of BlackRock and Blackstone would be considered a petty small scale swindle.
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 1:10:07 Chamath Palihapitiya What do you think about that crazy thing that happened with the Blackstone REIT? 4 times in the scene
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 16:50 Chamath Palihapitiya They have like, thirty billion AUM now, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:44 Chamath Palihapitiya That's, it's tied, it's true of Blackstone, it's true of Apollo, it's true of Carlyle, it's true of KKR.
- ▶ 1:20:35 Chamath Palihapitiya What are you going to do?
E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
- ▶ 20:30 Chamath Palihapitiya So Blackstone, Silverlake, when they came on the heels of SoftBank, what they did was they raised funds with a 15 and 20 year life.
E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- ▶ 1:04:39 Chamath Palihapitiya If you look at Apollo's great returns, or Blackstone's great returns, or Cerebrus, you know, these folks were the, you know, they, they really were the barbarians at the gates, and they made all the money in moments of true dislocation.
E78: VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans, Bill Hwang arrest
- ▶ 12:38 Chamath Palihapitiya If you look at the most successful asset manager in the world, and I would put Blackstone at that, just incredibly good, and best in class in probably three enormous parts of the worldwide economy, real estate,
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 1:01:08 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, TPG just filed to go public, they're going out, KKR's public, Apollo's public, Blackstone's public. 2 times in the scene
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 17:58 Chamath Palihapitiya So if all of a sudden, you know, you decided to invest in private equity when private equity was going bonkers, you're not going to take as much of a shot on an emerging manager, you're going to want to take a shot on Blackstone or KKR,… 3 times in the scene