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Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 0:35 Jason Calacanis He's a scientist who works with Peter Thiel from Harvard, has done some really-
Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
- ▶ 0:51 David Friedberg Eric Weinstein, mathematician, physicist, economist, PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard, National Science Foundation postdoc, O&R Fellow at Harvard, published a proposed mathematical framework and speculative unified field theory… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:21 Eric Weinstein Co-PI with Richard Freeman of the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at Harvard in the Economics Department, because I was worried that we were, we had been losing this, and there's a very crisp answer to this, and between 19 65 and…
Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
- ▶ 40:37 Chamath Palihapitiya It is the equivalent of what Harvard used to be.
The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
- ▶ 45:33 Jason Calacanis Sometimes too good, but there's, I mean, Harvard has a project.
SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
- ▶ 34:47 Jason Calacanis That's the place where Harvard is. 2 times in the scene
“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War
- ▶ 0:02 David Friedberg I'm really excited to be joined by, uh, back to All In, Harvard professor Graham Allison.
- ▶ 46:26 Graham Allison Uh, I mean, any treatment that comes to that conclusion, and if you take Carney, whom I know from when he's a Harvard college kid, he's, he's as American as anybody, or he was, but the idea if you go and threaten a politician's survival,…
Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 1:04:41 Jason Calacanis Freeberg, tell us about this Harvard study. 2 times in the scene
Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- ▶ 28:00 Sagar Enjeti An incredible amount of control that Jeffrey Epstein had over Leslie Wexner's finances, over the Wexner Foundation, which he used to funnel money to Ayyud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel, support many Zionist causes under the…
- ▶ 1:19:50 Kevin Bass Um, Joey Ito was sort of, uh, as far as I can tell, again, you guys know a lot more about this than I do, but as far as I could tell, really going through the files over the last couple of days, Joey Ito was sort of, um, Epstein's, uh,…
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 47:54 Jason Calacanis He graduated from Stanford and Harvard, served as the youngest Fed governor at age 35.
Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
- ▶ 13:07 Jason Calacanis This is a study that came out of either Harvard or MIT.
Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- ▶ 17:38 Adam Carolla And every time there's a presser, I think this just, uh, happened at Brown with the shooting that it, but it happened in Congress with Harvard and so on and so forth.
OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- ▶ 36:28 David Sacks My ethics lawyer who teaches a course on
Molly's Game Uncensored: Mob Threats, FBI Raid & 100M Pots... And Still Won
- ▶ 15:36 Molly Bloom Then he started and sold a tech company at, like, literally the highest valuation, like, down to the second, I think, and now he's CEO of the X Games, and then my other brother is Harvard-educated cardiothoracic surgeon at MassGen.
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- ▶ 2:21 Chamath Palihapitiya And was just, I think, put on leave from Harvard.
Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower
- ▶ 16:53 Tareq Amin I, sometimes, honestly, when I sit with them, I said, I'm really, maybe I don't have enough credentials to sit with you guys in the room, but they're graduated from, ah, yes, some are for a PhD from Stanford, MIT, Harvard,
Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
- ▶ 0:57 Jason Calacanis Everybody knows Mayor Pete, born in South Bend, Harvard, Rhodes Scholar, McKinsey, U.S.
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 12:14 Andrew Ross Sorkin I happened to be giving a speech at Harvard and I walk in there.
Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech
Inside the GLP-1 Gold Rush: Eli Lilly CEO on New Breakthroughs, Addiction & Mental Health, Pricing
- ▶ 10:41 Dave Ricks By the way, it's about the same as MIT and Harvard combined.
H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
- ▶ 31:50 David Friedberg One thing to note, and, and one of the controversies about all of this, the paper that was published by this guy Baccarelli from, uh, I don't know if I'm pronouncing his name right, from Harvard, it's actually been challenged because in…
The College Crisis: Heads of Dartmouth & Berkeley Debate the Decline of US Universities
- ▶ 13:03 Jason Calacanis Perhaps Harvard would fall into this category or others. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:19 Chamath Palihapitiya Harvard's got a fifty-five billion dollar endowment.
Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- ▶ 42:53 Jason Calacanis One said he can't freeze research funds for Harvard.
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 37:39 Chamath Palihapitiya I'll be honest, I really like Trump's attack on Columbia, UCLA, and Harvard, because I think that those were these sacred cows that were always left alone. 3 times in the scene
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 53:52 Jason Calacanis Speaking of American exceptionalism, Harvard is still battling it out with Trump, and their fifty billion dollar endowment is being questioned.
- ▶ 58:50 David Friedberg Let me just suspend the brand and history and legacy of Harvard for a second. 6 times in the scene
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 12:14 David Sacks I mean, he was, wasn't he like Zuck's roommate at Harvard or something?
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 59:03 Jason Calacanis It seemed like every single person I had met had taken one of these scholarships to go to Oxford, to Harvard, to, you know, Caltech, whatever it was, they all had spent massive amounts of time in the West and then come back to either Saudi…
Antonio Gracias: DOGE updates, Voter fraud, Finding 'Big Balls' | All-In Live from Miami
- ▶ 11:11 Antonio Gracias He is in, he's in my son's class at Harvard. 2 times in the scene
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 1:15:27 Jason Calacanis It's Harvard.
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- ▶ 18:42 David Sacks Where Trump is now taking action against Harvard.
- ▶ 42:18 Chamath Palihapitiya They didn't report that, for example, when Trump took a shot at Harvard, he also reinforced and strengthened historically black colleges and universities.
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 6:58 David Friedberg Yeah, I remember there was a guy from Harvard who used to teach a class in negotiation.
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 27:40 David Sacks You should have done like a more broadly accessible topic like Harvard.
- ▶ 28:30 Tim Dillon So what's going on, Harvard? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:26 Chamath Palihapitiya And right now, if you look at the top of the educational hierarchy, Harvard, what have we seen over the last few years? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:37 Jason Calacanis Tim, your thoughts on, uh, Trump wanting to take away the non-profit status of Harvey. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:57 David Friedberg Harvard's endowment is 53.2 billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:01 David Sacks Fast forward to 2023, we have the case Students for Fair Admissions versus Harvard. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:40 David Friedberg So, so today, if you're a researcher, you're a scientist at a university like Harvard, I don't know if people realize this, the way you get funding for your lab is you will apply for a grant. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:56 Chamath Palihapitiya Harvard. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:35 Tim Dillon If I wanted to study anything at Harvard, it would be Brigitte McCrone's gender. 2 times in the scene
The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- ▶ 1:41 Jason Calacanis Uh, and, uh, with us, of course, Larry Summers, economist, former treasury secretary under Clinton, former director of the National Economic Council under Obama, and the president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006.
- ▶ 10:47 Chamath Palihapitiya Larry's giving it about a B plus on the Harvard grade scale.
The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
- ▶ 19:20 Scott Bessent Brought in international students, but the, the number of degrees awarded, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, probably hasn't changed very much since the 19 fifties.
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
- ▶ 46:08 Chamath Palihapitiya So to your point, Freeberg, it didn't take a PhD from Harvard to figure out that if you just owned an index of the absolute 500 best things happening at any given point in time, it would have gone up.
Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy
- ▶ 44:44 Chamath Palihapitiya Discussion at Harvard just this past week about the different political coalitions that voted for Trump versus Kamala Harris.
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 1:48:20 Gavin Baker And, um, you know, there was the Uamata thing where essentially a lot of, you know, astronomers said, Hey, this is, this is clearly a UFO of some sort, including the head of astronomy at Harvard.
DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory
- ▶ 11:17 David Sacks Number two is you got Vivek, who is co-head with Elon of this thing, and I think he's a perfect partner for Elon, because Vivek, first of all, he's a brilliant guy with a lot of success in business, but he's also a Harvard-trained lawyer.
2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!
- ▶ 2:00:08 Haralabos Voulgaris but I, I remember very specifically reading like the great Barrington declaration that came out written by some, you know, three very, very sharp physicians and epidemiologists from Harvard, I think Stanford and Oxford.
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 1:15:48 David Friedberg You can go to Trump University or you could go to Harvard.
Senator Kyrsten Sinema | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 29:06 Jason Calacanis Al-Qaeda is like, we could have just gone to Harvard. 2 times in the scene
Bari Weiss | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 12:27 Bari Weiss The thing that began at the margins and at the fringe has moved into the center of American institutional life, and that is the story of the transformation of the New York Times, and it's the story of the transformation of Harvard and so…
- ▶ 14:25 Bari Weiss Stop poisoning yourself, your families, and your children with the bankrupt notion that them getting into Harvard or Yale is more important than inculcating in them a sense of love, of family, of country, and of all of the things we used…
Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
- ▶ 23:15 Peter Thiel And then probably, I don't know, um, I don't know, uh, Claudine Gay, the, uh, plagiarizing Harvard University president, um, you know, the AI is going to play, you know, the AI will produce
Massive jobs revision, Kamala wealth tax, polls vs prediction markets, end of race-based admissions
- ▶ 18:05 Jason Calacanis Harvard had some weird thing, um, Friedberg, where personality was one of the vectors, uh, and people believe that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:55 Chamath Palihapitiya And the reason is because you could go to Iowa State or you could go to Harvard and you could make a claim and I would buy it that in some random social science, maybe there's an advantage in the people that you meet. 2 times in the scene
The Besties Take Napa | All-In Special
- ▶ 17:09 Jason Calacanis And so the hard work ethic, I think, was the key to a lot of my success because I just decided I'm just going to outwork everybody because I was coming not from Harvard or Stanford, but from Bayridge, Brooklyn, uh, and, you know, going to…
Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 35:46 Jonathan Haidt It's a, you know, Harvard is a punchline in jokes around the world, certainly in America.
In conversation with President Trump
- ▶ 44:23 Donald J. Trump Let me just tell you that it's so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the greatest schools and lesser schools that are phenomenal schools also.
Sheryl Sandberg, plus open-source AI gene editing explained
- ▶ 32:09 David Friedberg You're very close to Harvard. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:42 Chamath Palihapitiya You see them at Columbia, Harvard.
- ▶ 1:02:04 David Friedberg So scientists, arguably from Harvard, from Berkeley, and from other places around the world, in the early 20 tens, started to do research and identified ways that we could leverage these proteins that we were discovering in nature to do… 2 times in the scene
Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
- ▶ 36:20 Jason Calacanis This Sunday, uh, conservative activist Christopher Ruffo, he's, uh, the person who exposed former Harvard president's Claudine Gay's plagiarism.
E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- ▶ 26:04 Chamath Palihapitiya So the same thing that happened to the president of Harvard.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 1:24:59 Jason Calacanis We might even see that with Harvard and their selection of their president.
- ▶ 1:26:17 David Sacks So when they get in a lawsuit, like the Harvard affirmative action case that went through some court, they'll deny that they're discriminating against Asian Americans.
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 1:13:01 David Sacks I am going to name Liz McGill, the now former president of the University of Pennsylvania, who had been vomiting on herself for two months in the aftermath of October seventh, before she even appeared at that congressional hearing with the… 2 times in the scene
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 3:18 Jason Calacanis On Tuesday, the House Education Committee spoke with the presidents of Harvard, Penn, MIT, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:39 David Friedberg Obviously Ackman is a big donor at Harvard and he's been very vocal about 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:14 David Friedberg Gene editing, as you guys know, was discovered this controversial, whether it was discovered first by George Church and the group at the, at the Broad and Harvard or Jennifer Doudna and her group at Berkeley.
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 4:11 Jared Kushner I actually went to Harvard, and then after that, chose to go to law school and business school, where I was at NYU.
E150: Israel/Gaza escalating or not? EU censorship regime, Penn donors revolt, GLP-1 hype cycle
- ▶ 43:13 Jason Calacanis Um, and this has led to a massive outrage amongst donors to, uh, Ivy league schools like Penn and Harvard. 6 times in the scene
E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps
- ▶ 29:43 Jason Calacanis You know, these dopey kids on Harvard's campus or whatever, they have never experienced evil or suffering. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:02 Chamath Palihapitiya I can't believe that if I got into Harvard, I would get auto drafted into the Brown Men's Association just because of the color of my skin. 2 times in the scene
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 34:02 Jason Calacanis It's by the same person who sued Harvard.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Larry Summers
- ▶ 0:37 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, he was the president of Harvard.
- ▶ 21:27 Larry Summers And that is a embarrassment that the grade point average of the average student at Harvard University is above 3.7.
- ▶ 25:36 Chamath Palihapitiya Let's just actually go to that quickly, which is you were the president of Harvard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:19 Larry Summers It is the essence of a great university at its best that when I was president of Harvard and I was teaching a freshman seminar, some freshman, some freshman could come in and read my paper and explain how, well, it was kind of an…
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 8:37 Chamath Palihapitiya So at Villa d'Este as an example, that is probably the Harvard of hospitality.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 47:34 Brad Gerstner In 2002, MIT, Yale, Harvard, they would call, you know, who were the early backers of venture firms, they would call these venture guys up and say, listen,
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 1:12 Jason Calacanis He graduated Harvard.
- ▶ 12:22 Vivek Ramaswamy Because the pitch that we made in recruiting, we recruited from Harvard and MIT and everywhere else, big pharma companies didn't recruit out of undergrad, we did.
- ▶ 2:03:11 David Sacks I mean, he went to Harvard.
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- ▶ 24:16 David Friedberg And the votes were six to three against affirmative action in the university of North Carolina case and six to two against affirmative action in the Harvard case. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:25 Chamath Palihapitiya The National Bureau of Economic Research did a study in 2019 that they published, and what they found was that 43%, so 43% of white students admitted to Harvard were athletes, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:21 Chamath Palihapitiya Let's not just pick on Harvard, but it's like, it's like all the state schools as well. 4 times in the scene
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 56:05 Chamath Palihapitiya It looks like this outsider went to the Dalton school in Harvard university. 2 times in the scene
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 41:10 Jason Calacanis Harvard, or whoever, I'm just picking, you know, one of the large ones, if somebody's got 30, forty billion dollars, they may not need to liquidate that, and they might very much want to hold for the long term.
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 41:29 David Sacks I mean, to grow up in the Kennedy family and to be part of all of those elite circles, whether it's in Hollywood or Harvard, or where do they go for the summer?
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 2:40 David Sacks RFK Jr. graduated from Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and became an environmental lawyer who aggressively litigated against corporate polluters and government agencies that were failing to regulate them.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 1:03:29 David Sacks Imagine, think about the case of, you know, Zuckerberg founding Facebook at Harvard.
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 1:20:42 Jason Calacanis Carnegie Mellon ranked as top tech transfer university I'm just seeing here in terms of the rankings, uh, University of Florida, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard.
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:46:37 Chamath Palihapitiya I want to show you guys a tweet about Harvard students, and I want you guys to react to Draymond's comments, because they're just fucking incredible. 3 times in the scene
E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
- ▶ 1:22:45 David Friedberg So, um, there was a paper that is a pretty, um, compelling paper published by a team, uh, led out of Harvard. 2 times in the scene
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 38:49 David Sacks The, the term Davos man was coined back in 2004 by a Harvard professor named Sam Huntington, who wrote a book called Clash of Civilizations. 2 times in the scene
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