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E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- ▶ 1:06:58 David Friedberg Google has individually funded a company called Calico, led by Art Levinson, the former founder and CEO of Genentech.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 25:55 Jason Calacanis So after Elon, um, Alphabet stock up, 66%, Apple stock up 31%.
- ▶ 29:16 Chamath Palihapitiya And if you just, and if you just, you know, Google search the number of issues that all of these companies collectively are dealing with, I think that this is sort of peak big tech market cap is probably within the next year or two.
- ▶ 48:25 Chamath Palihapitiya That was a UPS logo, and it's now, it's now what the shareholders of Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Twitter, uh, Palo Alto Networks, uh, and Adobe have said.
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 16:35 David Sacks What they are basically saying is that these big companies and the, for example, they've called on Google to conduct one of these audits. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:12 Chamath Palihapitiya Do you buy Google versus Facebook?
- ▶ 59:21 Chamath Palihapitiya And he is the one that's there where AT&T or Facebook or Google has an issue.
E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
- ▶ 1:00:21 David Sacks So you now have, you know, Indian immigrants, I guess, first or second generation running Google with Sundar, Sasha Nadella and Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:10:49 David Friedberg I remember in the early days at Google,
- ▶ 1:12:42 David Friedberg Google Play.
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- ▶ 8:37 Chamath Palihapitiya So said differently, if you're going to spend the time to open a Robin Hood or E-Trade account, it still matters whether you buy a share of Lycos or a share of Google.
- ▶ 1:07:37 unnamed speaker I'm Googling.
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 1:23:06 David Friedberg Google's gotta be spending twenty five billion a year.
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 7:48 Chamath Palihapitiya I'm still long Microsoft and Google and short the rest of big tech, so I'm fine with it. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:11 Chamath Palihapitiya When Sequoia distributed Google, every single partner got Google shares. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:06 Chamath Palihapitiya AWS, you know, GCP like infrastructure that has to get built in.
- ▶ 35:00 Chamath Palihapitiya Then you needed Google.
- ▶ 43:03 Chamath Palihapitiya The classic example is Google versus Yahoo. 4 times in the scene
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 4:00 David Sacks Well, or look, if you're at, like, the stage that Google is at, or whatever, the founders can disappear and move to, you know, islands and private islands, and it doesn't matter.
- ▶ 55:05 Chamath Palihapitiya I would say interesting products that are growing well, but they may not actually be very important companies, yet they trade at enormous valuations, and then you have these companies that are just so superb, and I'm talking about…
- ▶ 58:50 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, I gotta say, when you saw these quarterly earnings, there is no better business in the world than Google. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:53 David Friedberg And then you look at Google Cloud. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:24 David Friedberg As we saw recently, they dropped the commission in the Play Store to 15%.
- ▶ 1:13:25 Chamath Palihapitiya I think on the meta thing, I think the, the risk is if Google and Apple take the hardware costs to zero, because I think there's an incentive in a highly fragmented ecosystem. 3 times in the scene
E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- ▶ 17:19 David Sacks And, um, the, the, the slide deck that's available on the company's website lists Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Disney+, CNN, iHeartMedia, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, as some of TMTG's current and future competitors.
E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- ▶ 22:06 Chamath Palihapitiya And so I want Facebook and Google and Amazon and all these startups to be putting all this money in the ground on my behalf. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:59 David Friedberg I mean, I spent a few years at Google and, you know, it was a thousand people when I joined, grew to 10,000 by the time I left, but like, I learned so much just in that role and seeing successful products, successful models for operating a…
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:14:31 David Sacks If you look at the number of billionaires in the U.S., I just Googled this,
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 48:07 Balaji Srinivasan If it manages what it's got, it's got like, it's, it's like Google, it's got 10 years of that in front of it.
- ▶ 1:06:48 Chamath Palihapitiya Jason, I think we're at the step of actually figuring out and how much tolerance we have for probably specifically Facebook and Google's specific business models.
- ▶ 1:14:49 David Sacks You can go look, you just Google the actual ads that were run by agents of the FSB on Facebook during the 2016 election.
- ▶ 1:19:19 David Friedberg But that's kind of being projected to me because of the recommendations being made by Google and the search function. 5 times in the scene
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 1:01:10 Chamath Palihapitiya How Facebook's algorithm works, how Google's search algorithm works for you.
- ▶ 1:05:13 Chamath Palihapitiya Then they were, like, going to Google Maps.
- ▶ 1:09:51 David Friedberg Google ventures.
- ▶ 1:14:55 Chamath Palihapitiya So, um, the investors in Juicero were Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital.
- ▶ 1:28:05 David Sacks And there's all those great stories about the chef at Google who got rich and the secretaries at Microsoft who got rich.
E46: False Ivermectin narratives, regulatory grift, wartime mentality in solving issues & more
- ▶ 5:20 David Sacks They also could have simply Googled
- ▶ 26:49 Chamath Palihapitiya And it's funny, because if you look at the stock prices of these companies, you you would have made more money being long United Healthcare than you would have been owning Facebook, Google, any of these other tech companies in the last…
- ▶ 53:25 Jason Calacanis And also part of the story is advertising went away as an option as Google and Facebook took over those markets.
E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- ▶ 58:23 David Friedberg The market is functional, and having the government and regulators come in and, you know, people complaining to the Senate about Google and Apple monopolizing them out of their businesses, um, ultimately gets resolved when enough, there's… 2 times in the scene
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 1:15:33 Jason Calacanis And then adding to that, oh, if you didn't know, Boston Dynamics got bought by Google. 5 times in the scene
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 6:22 Jason Calacanis There was a lot of references to Larry and Sergei and Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:38 David Friedberg And I had a series of dinners and conversations with Larry Page about like doing something together with Alphabet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:31 Jason Calacanis There's this Googler, that person.
E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
- ▶ 5:50 David Sacks And now you have Facebook and Google basically coming out saying in order to go back to the office, you have to be vaccinated. 2 times in the scene
E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
- ▶ 6:30 Jason Calacanis In other words, it's been flat for a month when you do this on this according to the New York Times Statistics and Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:59 David Friedberg It's an AI arm owned by Google, and they basically took protein structure and tried to predict what a protein looks like physically as a function of the DNA or RNA that codes the amino acids that make up the protein. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:22 Jason Calacanis The fact that Google is spending well over a billion dollars a year on DeepMind and doing projects like this, does this change any of your thinking about breaking them up Chamath or, you know, how we look at big tech? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:21 David Friedberg And look at what Google did with Waymo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:40 Chamath Palihapitiya Freebrook, how hard was it for you to leave Google, and what was that like? 5 times in the scene
E40: A Bestie gets COVID, Delta breakthrough, Billionaire Space Race & more
- ▶ 54:41 David Friedberg Google talked about it for years, which is how do you connect? 5 times in the scene
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 1:14:26 David Friedberg Because if they rewrite the laws, it could be impactful to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, you know, everyone. 4 times in the scene
E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
- ▶ 31:00 David Friedberg And using a little technical sleuthing, he realized they had been pulled down from the directory, but the raw genomic sample read data was still available on the Google Cloud. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:08 Jason Calacanis The, I just want to go back to the thing that I wanted to define bifurcation, you're saying two different markets, but what if there is, hey, we're going to sanction, we're not going to send Disney movies, or they're not going to let…
- ▶ 1:01:13 David Friedberg Google Chrome is in there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:27 Chamath Palihapitiya No, the only reason that Chrome is there is because of the amount of money that Google pays Apple for search. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:10 David Friedberg I don't think that AWS would have emerged and therefore Google Cloud and all these other alternatives wouldn't have emerged if Amazon didn't have this, yeah, didn't have this incredible.
- ▶ 1:13:56 Chamath Palihapitiya The algorithmic nature of Facebook's newsfeed and Google search are constraints, and people are going to test those things.
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 6:17 Jason Calacanis And she gave very pragmatic examples like maybe separating Google Maps from Android and when you turn on your Android phone, you would have to install maps or maybe you would pick from the different maps that are out there different…
- ▶ 6:17 Jason Calacanis And she gave very pragmatic examples like maybe separating Google Maps from Android and when you turn on your Android phone, you would have to install maps or maybe you would pick from the different maps that are out there different…
- ▶ 8:26 David Sacks With Apple and Google and the app stores, we had a congressional hearing pretty recently in which you had Spotify on other apps complaining about what Apple was doing to them saying they are making our service non-viable with the 30% rate… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:07 Chamath Palihapitiya And instead, they won't go to a startup because they take sort of the bird in the hand, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:44 David Friedberg So if you guys go back a few years ago, you'll remember there were these I think there were congressional hearings and Jeremy Staubelman from Yelp was pretty vocal about how Google was redirecting search engine traffic to their own kind of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:10 David Friedberg You know, imagine if Apple didn't have Apple Maps pre installed on the iPhone, everyone would download and use Google Maps, right?
- ▶ 29:51 Jason Calacanis I mean, if you just look at the interesting Google flights over time, I'm looking at a chart right now, we'll put it into the notes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:01 David Friedberg And then they also revealed the results in their own search result homepage, which effectively cut off the OTAs and the OTAs are big spenders on Google ads.
- ▶ 33:32 Jason Calacanis But you're saying downstream with all that data, Google is making a massive amount of money. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:54 David Friedberg I know everyone wants to beat up on California, but like the whole Western US, go look at Google Maps, you'll see how much green stuff there is on Google Maps. 2 times in the scene
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 44:04 Jason Calacanis Google has a similar policy.
- ▶ 46:12 David Sacks And I think what this really comes down to is a fear on the part of Apple and Google and Facebook.
- ▶ 49:09 David Friedberg As you guys know, when, you know, when I was single in my early twenties, working at Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:35 David Friedberg Well, the, the work itself was useful, at least for me, at least at that era at Google, when it was a private company, I love that work. 3 times in the scene
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 28:33 Chamath Palihapitiya What is Google supposed to do? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:34 David Sacks So, so, so here's the thing with the telcos, the telecom stack is, is we know that tech is taking over Hollywood, but the question is what part of the tech stack and what's happened is the part of the tech stack that has the direct… 2 times in the scene
E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- ▶ 15:12 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, you know, if you look at Google,
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 40:58 David Sacks Um, same thing with Google, you know, um, Sergey Brin came from Russia and just on and on it goes.
- ▶ 1:08:53 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, you know, Google basically showed the same thing. 10 times in the scene
E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- ▶ 54:26 Jason Calacanis I just said, screw it, I'm going to build a diligence team, and we ask people for all their bank statements, and for their iTunes account, and for their Google Analytics, and if a company doesn't give those to us, we just know that…
E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 32:09 Chamath Palihapitiya The average tenure at Google is 3.2 years.
- ▶ 1:15:04 Brad Gerstner To create a sense of ownership and participation in the American dream, their little slice of Tesla, of Walmart, of Amazon, of Google, like the money will come in from all the folks that you mentioned.
E28: Current state of public & private markets, Archegos debacle, US debt issues, wealth tax & more
- ▶ 17:36 Jason Calacanis They're going to share a Google sheet back with y'all of by stage where they are to start going through them.
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 22:12 Jason Calacanis And some other companies, Twitter, Google, just not being allowed to even operate in China.
- ▶ 1:01:25 David Sacks And so the cloud has just been so, I mean, and you see this now with, you know, the numbers that Azure and, uh, Google cloud and AWS keep reporting where they're at like tens of billions of revenue and they're still growing like 40, 50% a…
E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- ▶ 27:11 David Friedberg Google, Microsoft, a bunch of research labs, a bunch of startups are all kind of basically doing the same thing with different types of qubit technology, but they all have very high errors.
- ▶ 30:09 Jason Calacanis DeepMind couldn't get funded. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:02 Jason Calacanis you know what, we'll put in the show notes a link to this Google presentation, and Nick can pull up the slides when we're talking about them.
E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more
- ▶ 58:10 Jason Calacanis Many of you, when I mentioned the GoFundMe for, to put a journalist on Chesa, if you just type in GoFundMe Chesa, C-H-E-S-A into the Google, we added 8000 dollars since last week.
E24: Markets trend down, political pandemic manipulation, stimulus breakdown, biological Patriot Act
- ▶ 11:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Since 2010 where you would have made more money than being long Facebook and Google and Apple and Amazon was being long United Healthcare, Cigna, Wellspring.
- ▶ 25:45 David Friedberg There was another incredible multi hundred million dollar contract entered into for a guy and then I looked up his address on Google Maps and I looked at his home in his office.
- ▶ 47:45 Chamath Palihapitiya No, let's just say that, you know, Google's engineers unionize and they decide that, you know, 4 times in the scene
E23: Radical DAs, breaking down FB/Google vs. Australia, sustained fear post-vaccine & fan questions
- ▶ 34:55 David Sacks That would require Facebook and Google. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:43 Jason Calacanis The problem with Zuckerberg and with how Google has used journalists content is they are clipping out specific sections of it and putting it in something called one box on Google.
- ▶ 40:08 Jason Calacanis The App Store, they give 70% to app developers.
- ▶ 40:13 Jason Calacanis And with AdSense, they let you put AdSense on your website and they give you 68 cents on the dollar or something in that range. 2 times in the scene
E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
- ▶ 44:55 David Friedberg I mean, years ago when I was at Google, we did the IPO. 2 times in the scene
E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
- ▶ 11:10 Jason Calacanis So, you know, you had Craigslist take the classified business, Google and Facebook took the ad business in subscriptions, Netflix, Spotify, et cetera.
E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
- ▶ 40:59 Chamath Palihapitiya Theoretically, if you're a Facebook or a Google or an Amazon now, all of a sudden, you know, you can pay a much larger percentage of, uh, of, of what to do.
- ▶ 49:17 Jason Calacanis And if you just type into Google fentanyl versus heroin lethal dose and click on the image search, you will see two vials and it's a very famous photo where there's like, you know, a pinch of, you know, uh, heroin.
- ▶ 1:16:26 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, these are like, I know people think that's also stupid, but like, you know, if all we did was just own one percent of Apple, Google, Facebook, you'd have three trillion dollars, four trillion dollars, trillion with a T.
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