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Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 1:00:36 Jason Calacanis I don't, do you use like a portfolio, uh, off the shelf SaaS tool for managing crafts, like, um, uh, portfolios and everything?
Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage
- ▶ 25:28 Jason Calacanis I think you did five craft funds or four?
Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- ▶ 19:01 Jason Calacanis You have people who are doing series A's like craft ventures.
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 15:14 David Sacks One of my partners at craft actually created a new tool called lobster tank.
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 2:41 David Friedberg Yeah, his, his venture firm, Kraft Ventures, we're excited to have them on the cap table, yeah.
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 56:15 Jason Calacanis I, we invited somebody from Craft Ventures on, and I forgot who's from Craft Ventures is going to be on this week in AI, so I said, 3 times in the scene
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 1:30 David Sacks I signed a lease for an Austin office for craft.
OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- ▶ 28:42 Jason Calacanis First, that your firm Kraft has investments in companies.
AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- ▶ 13:29 Jason Calacanis Maybe you could tell us how, how that's working out in terms of your intelligence there, but what is craft seeing on the field there?
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 1:50:30 David Sacks Craft also sold all this. 2 times in the scene
DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory
- ▶ 1:06:58 Jason Calacanis Yeah, definitely David Sachs from Kraft Ventures, and maybe he's going to be involved in Doge.
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 1:01:17 David Sacks No, I mean, I've already said before, I'm the key man at craft.
Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 56:13 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think if you had to redo it, A, it's probably a lot less money in total, but B, and the example I gave there was instead of giving fifty million dollars to Kraft and ten million dollars to somebody else, you're better off giving… 2 times in the scene
Thomas Laffont | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 31:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Or your social capital, your craft.
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 33:07 David Sacks Deal flow at Kraft is pretty amazing. 4 times in the scene
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 41:32 David Sacks This is one of my coworkers at craft took this.
E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
- ▶ 0:22 Jason Calacanis And we have David Sachs from craft ventures in some
- ▶ 42:01 David Friedberg And sex, you've been an investor in SpaceX, but you don't make those sorts of investments regularly that craft.
E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- ▶ 9:55 Jason Calacanis Sachs, I remember when you were starting craft, you fired up like a group for VR and you got pretty heavy into it.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 53:40 David Sacks So we'll do a seed round.
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 1:10:47 David Sacks So SAS grid is now spun out completely of craft. 4 times in the scene
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 50:33 Jason Calacanis Oh, Kraft Ventures, YouTube.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 22:53 Jason Calacanis Series A rounds are typically the rounds when a benchmark or Sequoia, a craft come in and, you know, join the board and put in a significant check.
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- ▶ 1:17:40 David Sacks I mean, Kraft's funds are in the six to seven hundred million range.
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 1:11:54 Jason Calacanis You've, uh, slowed down investment at your firm craft. 3 times in the scene
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 1:09:37 Jason Calacanis Or I'm sorry, in the height of this, uh, bubble, you tell me a sax, the, the quickest you closed one of the, the crafts funds, but I was hearing people saying they're, they're closing funds within two or three months.
- ▶ 1:10:14 David Sacks This is a company I invested in before craft. 2 times in the scene
E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
- ▶ 1:14:09 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, look, there's Kraft. 2 times in the scene
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 31:54 David Sacks Well, I, I think, I think that sometimes we like flip, uh, board members internally at craft just because people have different amounts of capacity. 2 times in the scene
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 58:56 David Sacks That quote's where the name for craft ventures comes from.
E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
- ▶ 47:20 David Sacks And I was, I was literally just having this conversation at craft that, gee, maybe the next hire we should make at craft should be someone who's really deep technically. 3 times in the scene
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 50:20 David Sacks You can see I've got a little craft ventures badge next to my name. 2 times in the scene
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 1:09:26 Chamath Palihapitiya You would go back to folks craft.
- ▶ 1:15:25 Chamath Palihapitiya Launch craft.
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- ▶ 1:31 David Sacks I've gotten all sorts of inbound from people asking me if I'm like leaving craft ventures to do something at Twitter.
- ▶ 28:44 David Sacks And I think that what we've seen is, you know, at my firm craft.
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 1:34:46 David Sacks Oh, if you mean the general partner of Craft Ventures. 2 times in the scene
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 58:39 David Sacks You know, many years ago and which is when I started doing Yammer and then, you know, craft started focusing on SAS, which is at least when you do a B to B product, you know, software as a service, you can charge enough money for it that…
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 48:20 David Sacks So I don't know that if this report, I don't know if this reporting is actually true, but if the goal is all of a sudden for Tiger to become a Series A investor that competes with Kraft or Sequoia or these other firms that are very…
- ▶ 59:49 David Sacks I mean, from the, from our perspective, like as, as craft, I mean, look, it's not in our interest to get into any dispute with a founder.
E65: VC markup dynamics, Russia/US tensions over Ukraine, Altos Labs raises $3B, Stripe mafia & more
- ▶ 6:23 David Sacks And for a relatively young venture firm, which is what we are, you know, we, yes, we do have some investments that are kind of in the harvesting stage, but, you know, we're only a four or five year old firm.
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 6:18 Chamath Palihapitiya I'm saying, you know, you didn't come to Social Capital or to Kraft Ventures or to Sequoia or to TPB or to Google to raise money for this thing.
- ▶ 19:19 Chamath Palihapitiya Okay, you don't think these dopes run around thinking, oh, Sequoia, Benchmark, Social Capital, Kraft Invest, I'm just plowing the money in.
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- ▶ 56:38 David Sacks Is that like craft ventures, which I've been doing for the last four years,
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 5:49 David Sacks So Kraft is the beneficiary because we invest, we're the first investors in multi coin.
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 17:46 David Sacks It was actually the first check I wrote as a VC to lead around, uh, at craft and four years later, public company on the New York stock exchange.
- ▶ 21:29 David Sacks I mean, Kraft Ventures is only a four year old firm.
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 54:34 David Sacks So, I mean, but look, this is what's led to, you know, our fund two, which we started investing in 2019, which has a SaaS focus already has five unicorns in it from companies that we invested in the Cedar series.
E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more
- ▶ 24:03 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, could you imagine a SaaS founder that basically all of a sudden says, Alright, you know what, I'm raising a six million dollar series A, you know, craft can take 500 K Sequoia, you can have 500 K.
E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- ▶ 19:48 Jason Calacanis And what are you doing to protect crafts LPs?
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 12:25 Jason Calacanis Sachs, you announced you're closing 1.1 billion dollars with a B in Kraft's third fund, and explicitly talking about focus to Chamath's point, explicit focus on marketplaces and SaaS. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:39 David Sacks It was actually a gold crest and Sequoia 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:36 David Sacks You know, we, we are, one of the reasons why we like SaaS and marketplace at Kraft is they're very milestone based.
E28: Current state of public & private markets, Archegos debacle, US debt issues, wealth tax & more
- ▶ 18:12 David Sacks So if you're a founder out there listening and you have a SaaS deal that's post revenue, send it to me at Craft Ventures.
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 1:12:24 Jason Calacanis Bring us some of that, bring us some of that sax crafty poo money.
E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- ▶ 51:00 Jason Calacanis But when you do get a Sequoia or an Andreessen, when I put Kraft in this as well, when you get one of those all star VC firms to join your board specifically, that is the key.
- ▶ 58:59 Chamath Palihapitiya I'm happy to take dilution in the series A when I get, you know, Kraft or Sequoia or Benchmark. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:12 Jason Calacanis So it'd be like buying 10% of craft or whatever.
- ▶ 1:14:48 David Sacks Craftventures.com.
E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
- ▶ 18:04 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, like, I do think that like, you know, the all in podcast helps, for example, David in craft, um, or Jason, you and launch, but you guys also is going crazy, but, and you guys also stand alone as individuals.
E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
- ▶ 1:19 Jason Calacanis And Saks, um, retired from Craft Ventures to pursue his dream of being a Fox News host.
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 5:18 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, David is at craft ventures.com and he emails me at social capital.com and I emailed Jason at inside.com.
E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- ▶ 47:15 Jason Calacanis David, you saw a startup we just invested in that's doing them, and I think you liked them at the demo day we did, uh, with Kraft.
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 2:01 Jason Calacanis Chiming in is Rain Man himself, David Sachs, professional blogger, and the, uh, the fund manager of Craft Ventures, of course, uh, before that working at PayPal with, uh, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and a bunch of other famous people, um, uh,…
- ▶ 1:13:13 Jason Calacanis Uh, Sachs, you are a big investor in SpaceX at Kraft Ventures, I understand, uh, and when you see Bezos copy every single thing Elon does from
- ▶ 1:33:50 Jason Calacanis Wapner, and of course you have the fish sticks, and of course he's still investing from craft, certainly craft funds still investing. 2 times in the scene
E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 2:18 Jason Calacanis Now, of course, you founded, ah, the, ah, Kraft Venture Capital Firm, and people know before that, ah, you obviously did Yammer and sold that to Microsoft for a billion dollars plus, and before that, you were, ah, the COO at PayPal.
E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
- ▶ 3:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Was a prolific investor in some of the most well-known iconic businesses, uh, of this last generation, Airbnb, um, Uber, um, Slack, uh, the list goes on and on, and now is the co-founder, uh, of Craft Ventures, which is essentially, uh,…