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World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 59:18 Jason Calacanis I, I'll take offense to that, Sax, because it's your guy, Pete Hegseth, who is doing tweets like this. 3 times in the scene
Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- ▶ 1:11:31 Chamath Palihapitiya For example, this week, on the one side, we have anthropic AI doomerism that Sachs had to confront, but then on the other side, there were all of these people that got freaked out because open AI wants to push towards erotica, and all they…
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 1:13:33 Chamath Palihapitiya There is no conceivable way, as Freeburg said, that anybody in Sacramento, or Little Rock, or, you know, name your state capital, will have the intellectual wherewithal to get to an answer as good as the federal government will, and as… 3 times in the scene
Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- ▶ 26:32 Jason Calacanis Because, Sachs, that means the private sector gets to service that function.
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
- ▶ 1:01 David Sacks Is that the cashmere sweater with the rhino horn buttons?
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 1:03:11 Chamath Palihapitiya The stuff at the fringes, I think they get put up sacks almost as like a sacrificial lamb.
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- ▶ 50:25 David Friedberg And if you go to the next image, as Sachs pointed out already, here's the image of total
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 22:48 Jason Calacanis And it might be that OpenAI sacks on a strategic level is going to make all this free or close to free and maybe just charge for multiplayer version.
- ▶ 26:10 unnamed speaker Sax.
E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- ▶ 43:34 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think Sachs is right. 2 times in the scene
E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more
- ▶ 1:28:31 Jason Calacanis Sachs, what is DeSantis' beef with fake meat? 2 times in the scene
E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
- ▶ 26:39 Jason Calacanis And then Sachs, and myself, and Friedberg, and anybody who wanted to use that code could go in there and adapt it.
E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- ▶ 48:03 Jason Calacanis Sachs.
E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
- ▶ 36:45 Jason Calacanis They finally updated those numbers, Zach. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:58 Jason Calacanis We, we don't, like S-Sax is saying, we don't know the denominator here.
E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
- ▶ 13:46 Jason Calacanis Sachs, you picked California. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:18 Jason Calacanis Saks said the consumer 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:54 Jason Calacanis Uh, Saks, you said Trump's influence in the GOP wanes. 3 times in the scene
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 58:11 Jason Calacanis Saks.
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 23:54 Jason Calacanis Saks, we've been bearish on consumers and all this crazy debt. 4 times in the scene
E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
- ▶ 2:40 unnamed speaker Rain Man, David Savage.
E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
- ▶ 20:43 David Friedberg Zach, agree?
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 19:40 Jason Calacanis They named the 16 or 13, what was it, Friedberg?
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 51:22 Chamath Palihapitiya The Brazil thing happened, but I think it was a small trade, David. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:16 Chamath Palihapitiya By the way, it does make sense for the BRICS to expand, right, Zach? 2 times in the scene
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 48:43 Jason Calacanis How many of those war sacks were voted on by Congress is the other issue, you know?
- ▶ 53:07 David Friedberg And I think Sax's point, which I think we could all probably align on, is it's not.
- ▶ 1:09:14 Jason Calacanis I mean, look at Sax's crazy hair as we, as we probably did in the cold open.
- ▶ 1:18:29 Jason Calacanis You know, in the right seat to say, hey, listen, we're going into some, you want that hair, you want that sex here.
E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- ▶ 55:23 Chamath Palihapitiya No, Saks, Saks, you have two different- 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:45 Jason Calacanis Sachs.
- ▶ 1:31:24 Jason Calacanis Sax?
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 43:50 Chamath Palihapitiya As bad as the dollar is, David's right.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 14:52 Jason Calacanis So when you saw all this drop, Saks, what did you think in terms of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:42 David Friedberg So, so, and using Sax's point. 2 times in the scene
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 29:37 Chamath Palihapitiya And the problem with the pendulum is that it is at extremes and Saks is right. 2 times in the scene
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 1:06:11 David Friedberg So similar to what Sachs said earlier, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, that class of businesses, I think, benefit in this, in this environment.
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 20:25 Jason Calacanis Saks said rise of the rest, the flyover states. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49:30 Jason Calacanis Sachs, do you have a best investor?
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 51:00 Chamath Palihapitiya And I'd rather focus on what David said, which is there are things that we need to do. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:07 Chamath Palihapitiya Because I think to David's point, if Elon is successful, he has uncovered this very uncomfortable truth that was frankly hiding in plain sight, which is that many of these technology companies using technology get so much operational… 3 times in the scene
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 25:45 Jason Calacanis Sachs, what's, I think what people most want to know, and I'll go to Freeburg after Sachs, Freeburg, I think people are going to want to know, 5 times in the scene
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 1:24:07 David Friedberg Yeah, and by the way, to your point, Sachs, also, you know, there continues to be escalating issues with debt and concerns about debt repayment across the EU, and while Germany is, you know, looking to the US for support and worried about…
#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 1:34:48 Chamath Palihapitiya You've heard from David that 10 trillion was put in. 2 times in the scene
E76: Elon vs. Twitter
- ▶ 22:44 Chamath Palihapitiya I think David is largely right. 4 times in the scene
E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 40:25 Jason Calacanis I mean, sometimes the best money sacks is money you put into a bet you've already made continuing to build the pot with a startup. 2 times in the scene
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 1:06:27 Jason Calacanis These misadventures as Saks calls them in the Middle East have been disastrous. 2 times in the scene
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 45:41 Jason Calacanis But if I would think most people would say Saks, Cheryl, Tim Cook, Keith Raboy, we'll put that aside for the debate in terms of operating. 5 times in the scene
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 47:51 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think David expressed the reason well is that it's an enterprise business.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 58:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Saks.
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 57:25 Chamath Palihapitiya Cue David.
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:20:24 Jason Calacanis Sack, should you get the final word?
- ▶ 1:22:17 David Friedberg Oh, I wanna watch Saks. 4 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 44:59 David Friedberg Zack is defending J. 2 times in the scene
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 12:57 Jason Calacanis What was the minimum wage where you are, David?
- ▶ 1:01:22 Chamath Palihapitiya So David's daughter is right.
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 20:17 Chamath Palihapitiya Today, the goal of every fund that's successful that has a brand, David's included, should be do good deals. 6 times in the scene
E40: A Bestie gets COVID, Delta breakthrough, Billionaire Space Race & more
- ▶ 19:33 David Friedberg Um, and so the, you know, the presentation that Sachs kind of described is, is encouraging in the sense that it, it likely means that the virus did not create that.
E39: West coast super drought & climate crisis, Nuclear virtue signaling, chaos in SF & more
- ▶ 34:56 Jason Calacanis Saks, how do we solve it? 2 times in the scene
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 58:43 David Friedberg Let Zach finish his point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:26 Chamath Palihapitiya What do you think about Nikki Haley sucks?
E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- ▶ 39:49 Jason Calacanis 800 was the average, so in Brooklyn when you're 320 points above average, David, it's a BFD.
E28: Current state of public & private markets, Archegos debacle, US debt issues, wealth tax & more
- ▶ 1:13:29 Chamath Palihapitiya But David, what's the where's the article that says you don't carry it if you've gotten the vaccine, I need to know that because that's like the thing that's always in the back of my mind. 3 times in the scene
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 2:05 Jason Calacanis Rain Man, you ran away with that one with 39%, The Dictator with 34, Queen of Kinoa coming in at 17, and Uber's their fourth investor came in with the measly eight percent. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:36 Chamath Palihapitiya So, I think David, you got unnecessarily emotional and personal. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:08 Chamath Palihapitiya Saksipu, the thing, the thing that you're not willing to acknowledge is that even when GDP shrinks, it's like a, it's a, it's, it's shrinking from a base where there's substantive growth year over year, like, 2 times in the scene
E23: Radical DAs, breaking down FB/Google vs. Australia, sustained fear post-vaccine & fan questions
- ▶ 53:12 Jason Calacanis I think it's April, David, to your point of when this goes back to normal, because if you look now, people have been saying, Freeburg, correct me if I'm wrong,
E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
- ▶ 1:00:19 Jason Calacanis What would you do, David, if you were in charge, and then let's move on to our next topic.
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 44:31 Jason Calacanis Sax, what was your smartest business move? 2 times in the scene
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 12:18 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, but I think what they saw was, as David said, just, um, you know, a level of sophistication and scale and ability to cross sell and upsell that was needed for enterprise scale. 2 times in the scene
E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 53:47 Jason Calacanis Saxy Poo. 2 times in the scene