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every year anyone Chamath Palihapitiya 4David Friedberg 3Mark Pincus 2Anatoly Yakovenko 1
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Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
- ▶ 10:22 Anatoly Yakovenko Um, I think all the stuff that people have tried, it's kind of like early 90 days, experimentation, Frontster, all of those things failed until there was a critical mass of people that understood how the web works and then Facebook took…
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 4:48 Mark Pincus I think of that as the beginning of all this, but then yeah, Reed and I put up the first money for Friendster. 2 times in the scene
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 1:05:58 Chamath Palihapitiya Of this class of app.
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 20:24 Chamath Palihapitiya I wrote this in my annual letter, but there are these phases of growth, and when you look at, like, social networks as a perfect example, Friendster was magical when it was first created, right? 2 times in the scene
E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
- ▶ 9:30 David Friedberg I remember in the early days of Friendster and MySpace, and then even Facebook, these social networks launched and everyone thought it was going to be a conversational system.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 24:53 Chamath Palihapitiya Friendster gets started.
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 5:44 David Friedberg Those monopolies get, uh, destroyed by the next thing, you know, from Friendster to MySpace, to Facebook, to Instagram, to Snapchat, to TikTok.
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- ▶ 24:34 David Friedberg Sort of like what happened with Friendster and MySpace and any social networking app over time, the quality degrades.