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Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI Aug 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores Jul 30, 2026 · 1 mention

AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie Jul 3, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 5:45 David Sacks And if you don't think that can happen, just look at what happened to Figma. 5 times in the scene

Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick Feb 7, 2026 · 3 mentions

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built Oct 9, 2025 · 3 mentions

Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust Sep 7, 2025 · 1 mention

AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken? Aug 15, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:24:10 David Sacks So just to give like one micro example, take Figma, you know, we talked about on this pod, 4 times in the scene

Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:17:14 Kelly Loeffler Well, I, I can't envision what my life would have been like when I started a small business if I could have had Figma or Canva instead of PowerPoint.

Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO Jul 4, 2025 · 10 mentions

IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate Jun 21, 2025 · 1 mention

Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World May 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14:48 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that they probably look at like Adobe Figma, and they look at the cap table, and they probably just make a judgment that, hey, I don't want these people to be billionaires.

White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue Mar 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Aug 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:19 Jason Calacanis Everything from Adobe and Figma to other mergers that could be happening are essentially frozen.

Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more Jun 29, 2024 · 4 mentions

Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction? May 31, 2024 · 1 mention

E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more Mar 22, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 47:40 Jason Calacanis This is a bailout, or do you think this is a new, interesting end run around antitrust where, hey, if Adobe wants to buy the next Figma, just buy the team, do a license of Figma, some Fakaka lunacy, or do you think this is a bailout? 2 times in the scene

E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked Dec 23, 2023 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 36:01 Jason Calacanis Adobe Figma has been called off. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:10 David Friedberg So it feels to me like that's, and I would imagine if I'm Adobe and I'm looking at this Figma deal, do I keep fighting it? 4 times in the scene

E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update Dec 8, 2023 · 25 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11:51 Jason Calacanis Adobe's twenty billion dollar acquisition of Figma is stalled right now. 19 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:27:42 David Sacks Is that you get your deal done if you got a Brad Smith, and you don't get it done if you're a startup like Figma. 6 times in the scene

E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more Aug 26, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 48:05 Chamath Palihapitiya Two days ago, the European Commission and the CMA in the UK said that they're probing Adobe Figma because they have some concerns that it's going to limit competition in the market. 2 times in the scene

E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth Jul 14, 2023 · 1 mention

E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more May 26, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09:21 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, do they want to mulligan on this twenty billion dollar Figma thing, or do they get to see the ongoing revenues that Figma is generating? 6 times in the scene

E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee Apr 7, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:16 Jason Calacanis He was the chief product officer at MobileCoin, also an angel investor in a ton of companies, Figma Space X Clubhouse, well known in the industry.

E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act Mar 31, 2023 · 1 mention

E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move Feb 24, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:23 Jason Calacanis I think that this is going to provide so much value that the incremental 10 bucks a month, five bucks a month per employee is going to pay off so much that this could be, if Slack or like some presentation software, there are a lot of…

E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union Feb 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ Dec 24, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:34 David Sacks Well, it was, it was a pretty big surprise that Adobe bought Figma for twenty billion.

E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more Dec 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07:24 Chamath Palihapitiya By the way, if you, if you take all those three things, the deal of the century was Figma selling to Adobe for twenty billion. 2 times in the scene

E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more Sep 17, 2022 · 34 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04 Jason Calacanis We had a bomb drop just yesterday, uh, with Adobe agreeing to acquire Figma, uh, the design tool, we'll get into that in a minute, what it actually does, for twenty billion dollars. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:49 Chamath Palihapitiya It is a gargantuan money making business, and so they refused in Creative Cloud to go to that free tier that Figma has. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:54 Jason Calacanis Then this acquisition, if you're going to do it through the lens of future consumer harm, this creates future consumer harm because Figma is not going to compete with Adobe. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:09 David Sacks So as we talked about, they're at around 404 hundred fifty million of ARR right now. 12 times in the scene
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