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Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 2:36 Jason Calacanis Looks like, uh, on the positive side, we have Elon, who said it was thoughtful, Sam at OpenAI, Jack Clark at Anthropic, Sundar, Satya, Jack Dorsey from Block,
- ▶ 26:31 David Friedberg And, and by the way, I think because capital, I mean, if you think about that seventeen billion dollar equity contribution, what that technically means is Stripe is selling and Block is selling seventeen billion dollars of equity 3 times in the scene
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 1:17:06 Jason Calacanis Jack at block said he's doing this because of AI. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- ▶ 49:39 Jason Calacanis Despite what Jack had block said.
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- ▶ 3:29 Roelof Botha And then Venture 13, which is the fund right after that, has Stripe and Square, now called Block, MongoDB, and a bunch of other companies.
- ▶ 18:54 Roelof Botha And so when you're in a company where the founder keeps reinventing the business, you know, a company like Square, half the revenue today comes from a product called Cash App that hadn't launched for the first five years in the company's…
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 1:13:22 Jason Calacanis Square bought Afterpay for twenty nine billion, Zoom acquired five nine for fifteen billion, Mailchimp, remember that one, twelve billion, Microsoft and Nuance, the, um, spoken, uh, the, um,
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- ▶ 1:39:54 John Collison But if you look at a bunch of the other fintech companies, you know, Square, really great company, 70% off its 20, 21 peak.
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 3:21 Jason Calacanis He had a stint at Square. 3 times in the scene
Thomas Laffont | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 10:15 Thomas Laffont But let's look at these three, DoorDash, Block, and Shopify. 2 times in the scene
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 43:32 Chamath Palihapitiya Block is down another 35%.
- ▶ 1:02:08 Chamath Palihapitiya No, no, I'm saying when Square and Odd Gen, these are great companies, right, that are down 80, 90%. 2 times in the scene
All-In Summit: In conversation with Larry Summers
- ▶ 0:48 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, he's been on the board of some very well-known tech startups like Square, now Block.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 52:35 Bill Gurley One good example was Square at one point had done a derivative financing on top that was somewhat problematic and they just felt like they had to get out.
- ▶ 1:14:40 David Friedberg Then he worked with Jack at Square.
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 40:34 Jason Calacanis And, you know, Square, if you look at something like that, you know, Roloff's still on the board of Square, I believe. 2 times in the scene
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 1:10:12 Jason Calacanis He was Square's first CTO. 2 times in the scene
#AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022
- ▶ 55:15 Keith Rabois I've seen someone like Jack Dorsey at Square did this, very sophisticated,
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 42:57 Jason Calacanis Obviously, we know Twilo zoom block all down over 60% from their one year highs.
- ▶ 46:46 Jason Calacanis And then I put Keith Raboi, Square, and a couple of other companies he did.
- ▶ 1:10:17 Jason Calacanis He's on squares board.
E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- ▶ 30:36 David Friedberg Do you think block used to be called Square is a good pair trade against Visa MasterCard in this context?
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 20:43 Chamath Palihapitiya Let's take Square. 2 times in the scene
E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
- ▶ 4:53 unnamed speaker Robinhood and Square, I'm keeping.
- ▶ 23:55 Jason Calacanis Square also drops off pretty significantly here.
E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more
- ▶ 33:15 Chamath Palihapitiya The filings of earnings from companies like Robin Hood and how much and Square
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 1:11:07 Jason Calacanis All right, Square has bought Afterpay for thirty billion, which represents a large portion of their outstanding equity. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:15 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, I think Square now is a federally licensed bank. 8 times in the scene
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 23:49 Jason Calacanis A lot of the top firms that I'm in are holding their shares and I had a firm that had a square and they held some number of them until it's seven X and then distributed. 3 times in the scene
E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
- ▶ 1:12:39 David Friedberg Lose to the likes of Shopify and Square and Stripe. 3 times in the scene
E23: Radical DAs, breaking down FB/Google vs. Australia, sustained fear post-vaccine & fan questions
- ▶ 1:05:09 David Friedberg And, uh, at this conference and he went around and did a pass the hat on who wanted to invest in his new startup called Square. 7 times in the scene
E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
- ▶ 7:56 David Sacks You had an announcement from a whole bunch of finance companies, PayPal, Stripe, Square, that said they would, uh, cancel the accounts and,
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 1:13:21 David Friedberg And, uh, Uber set up here and Twitter and Square and Salesforce, uh,
E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 3:33 Jason Calacanis Um, and square the Jack, uh, collection of companies.
- ▶ 37:58 Jason Calacanis Sachs, there was a lot of talk about what the Bay Area looks like after this, whether it's commercial real estate with Twitter and Square going full work from home, um, and people not wanting to work in cities.