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Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
- ▶ 8:36 Rahm Emanuel And you're saying that, I mean, I think America's culture writ large, not just Hollywood.
Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
- ▶ 35:38 Spencer Pratt This is in Hollywood.
- ▶ 49:46 unnamed speaker I have a lot of friends who grew up in Hollywood in the industry, and it's been gutted. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:55 Spencer Pratt And your dad said, hey, breaking news, let's enforce them, and we did it, and it worked, and then people came in with tons of money, and we got businesses booming, more jobs, Hollywood, we're making even better movies than we've made in 10…
Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
- ▶ 57:28 David Sacks Obviously you have the influence of Hollywood has created a lot of dystopian films about AI.
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 1:28:06 David Friedberg And I think that includes Hollywood.
Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
- ▶ 25:58 David Sacks I think that the, the way that Hollywood has portrayed AI over the decades, you know, with whether it's the Terminator or 2001,
Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- ▶ 24:10 unnamed speaker And he, you know, and everyone in Hollywood wouldn't hire him.
- ▶ 26:22 Adam Carolla I understand those people. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:46 Adam Carolla You know, in a weird way, Hollywood is sort of a bellwether. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:42 unnamed speaker I know a lot of people in Hollywood talk about the creative process getting replaced and they're getting written out of the system with AI. 2 times in the scene
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 1:12:54 David Friedberg I've also heard directly from folks in Hollywood, the creators of new content that people would prefer not to work with Netflix.
All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
- ▶ 55:52 David Friedberg And then he got pulled, and then he, and so unlike all these other guys where there's control systems in Hollywood with agents and producers, and they're like, here's the guy that's going to be the winner, these guys all have a democratic…
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 1:26:17 David Friedberg LA and Hollywood guys.
Molly's Game Uncensored: Mob Threats, FBI Raid & 100M Pots... And Still Won
- ▶ 27:55 Molly Bloom So, I just made a short list of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, and I was like, why not?
AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment
- ▶ 0:08 unnamed speaker One of Hollywood's biggest power brokers.
Triple H on How WWE Evolved: Trump, The Rock, and the Rise of the Antihero
- ▶ 22:55 Paul Levesque (Triple H) I'm going to get into Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 48:44 Andrew Ross Sorkin You know, right now, just the way the business is, you know, the, the Hollywood's buying a lot less stuff, and I think is more interested in sort of the former version where you show up with the whole thing sort of pre-packaged,…
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on AI, Censorship & the Future of Creators
- ▶ 26:07 Neal Mohan Whether you're a Hollywood celebrity, or a YouTuber, or, or an artist, the, the thing that I hear over and over that they really care about is their likeness.
Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
- ▶ 1:08:25 Paul Buchheit And so that's going to give, you know, a lot of voices that are currently not represented in media because they don't have access to the capital or the, or Hollywood connections.
Which Company Is Going To Win The AI Race? - David Friedberg
- ▶ 1:43 Chamath Palihapitiya And then number two, for many of the same reasons, I think Google, because you'll have the Gemini family of models, which just absolutely kick ass like VO three, which we haven't really spoke about is going to destroy Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- ▶ 31:22 Chamath Palihapitiya And then number two, for many of the same reasons, I think Google, because you'll have the Gemini family of models, which just absolutely kick ass like VO three, which we haven't really spoke about is going to destroy Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 3:15 Jason Calacanis So Hollywood studio heads wives versus private equity wives.
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 59:42 Tim Dillon In Hollywood that supposedly cared so much about the marginalized voices rediscovered the profit motive.
All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
- ▶ 19:11 Samir Chaudry I think we struggle because we entered into the world of YouTube 15 years ago as creatives, as, you know, guys who are exploring wanting to get into Hollywood and saw this as a different route.
- ▶ 35:11 Samir Chaudry Creators are the startups of Hollywood.
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 55:24 Jason Calacanis You know, sometimes, you've been at some Hollywood parties.
Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- ▶ 4:14 Senator Ted Cruz They said, look, there's an exception for tech and an exception for Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 42:22 Jason Calacanis You might need to get yourself, uh, one of them fancy agents from Hollywood or an attorney from the Wilson Sonsini Corporation to renegotiate your contract, son, because you're worth a lot more from what I can gather in your performance…
Michael Ovitz | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 0:08 unnamed speaker He rose from working in a mail room to become a super agent representing some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
- ▶ 1:29 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, in 1975, where, um, you know, Michael is really known for transforming Hollywood and transforming the media business, um,
- ▶ 33:21 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, Michael, it used to be that Hollywood kind of set culture. 4 times in the scene
Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
- ▶ 22:49 Peter Thiel So I don't know the, you know, my anti-Hollywood or anti-university hobby horse is that, uh, it seems to me that, you know, the, um, the AI is quite good at the woke stuff.
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 27:51 Reid Hoffman It blocks innovation and, you know, kind of Hollywood.
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 1:06:35 Jason Calacanis Clooney co-hosted a fundraiser with Katzenberg and some other Hollywood bigwigs that raised thirty million for President Biden, twice as much as you guys did for Trump, but I mean, this is Hollywood and Clooney. 2 times in the scene
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 4:56 David Sacks Well, yeah, look, if you're in one of the handful of export industries in America, and I'm talking about if you're in Hollywood or you're in big finance or you're in software, then globalization has been great for you because it has…
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- ▶ 6:15 David Sacks But anyone who knows anything about Hollywood knows you're not gonna be able to make a deal with a major star to use her name and likeness in two days.
Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
- ▶ 1:36 Chamath Palihapitiya And so you get people that have just done things that are just very practical and are very real, and I think what they do is they make, frankly, these kinds of achievements much more high level in the sense that you're bringing together…
E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- ▶ 49:39 David Sacks He's carrying water for the big studios, the big Hollywood studios, including music labels, but also the movie studios.
E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- ▶ 12:09 David Sacks I mean, why don't you target Hollywood for releasing a show like Euphoria, which is a hit?
E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- ▶ 1:15:10 Jason Calacanis And people criticize it for having bad CGI, so it's, I think there's like new discipline coming to Hollywood.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 1:11:21 David Sacks One of the reasons why Hollywood produces so few really interesting movies these days is because the political overtones are really in the forefront, and they really hit you over the head with them, and so therefore, they're just not very…
- ▶ 1:11:51 David Friedberg But Sachs, I think that Hollywood has imposed upon itself, uh, certain degrees of restriction on the artistry of the artists in the community, because the standards now to be nominated for best picture, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:15 Chamath Palihapitiya While you guys make semi-credible claims, and no progress is made on this whole DEI discussion as it touches cinema and Hollywood or music. 3 times in the scene
All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward
- ▶ 5:17 Caleb Ward We have everyone from Academy Award winners and directors who are doing amazing stuff out here in Hollywood, all the way to an eleven-year-old girl who's creating her short film concept for the first time.
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:27:34 Jason Calacanis And these, uh, idiot unions, honestly, their timing is so dumb, whether it's the ones, uh, you know, in Hollywood or, or this car strike, while they're
All-In Summit: In conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow
- ▶ 2:26 Jason Calacanis Um, I wanted to ask you, of all the things you've done, uh, you had this incredible, uh, career in Hollywood, which really spanned from the independent film era all the way to the blockbuster superhero era.
- ▶ 11:08 David Friedberg Is Hollywood challenged in being able to speak its mind? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:10 Jason Calacanis What is the future of, of Hollywood? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:39 David Friedberg How does Hollywood behind closed doors talk about this?
All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
- ▶ 8:10 Jason Calacanis So you consider maybe moving it to Los Angeles or something to be closer to Hollywood?
- ▶ 12:28 David Sacks Uh, series, which, I mean, that looked, like, monumental logistically to pull off, and in terms of set design and every other way, um, I mean, I guess tell us more about what goes into that, and, you know, what I'm kind of hearing from you…
- ▶ 19:55 Jason Calacanis Beast realm, Hollywood, et cetera.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 19:48 David Sacks So Kurosawa took on Shakespeare and then Hollywood kind of adapted Kurosawa, but a couple of really good ones, Throne of Blood was Kurosawa's adaptation of Macbeth, and then Rand was his adaptation of King Lear, two of my favorites worth…
- ▶ 48:39 Jason Calacanis Yeah, I mean, we see it in Hollywood.
E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more
- ▶ 7:59 Jason Calacanis Oh, that's how it works in Hollywood, okay?
- ▶ 31:47 Jason Calacanis Elites, surplus elites, and I, I want to dovetail this with what's happening in Hollywood, the writer's strike, um, and the actor's strike, and I was looking at it, there's some unbelievable number of actors in SAG, some unbelievable…
- ▶ 41:15 Jason Calacanis I hate to go deep into the, um, do you guys want to talk about Zert bad behavior, or do you want to talk about the resolution of this Hollywood stuff and what it means writ large?
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?
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 59:50 David Sacks On the Hollywood example, there's about to be a Writers Guild strike.
E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- ▶ 23:59 Jason Calacanis When you talk about the emotion of making these decisions, if you look at Hollywood, I just interviewed on my other podcast, the founder of.
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 7:04 Jason Calacanis But then when you read stories that you're not involved in, you know, you read a story about Hollywood or, I don't know, pick an industry or, or a region you're not super aware of.
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 8:26 David Sacks And so a showrunner basically is like the head writer, and they basically put together the writing team and the, you know, the content for a show, and then they sell them to networks. 3 times in the scene
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 33:34 David Sacks And Hollywood entertainment.
#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril
- ▶ 52:47 Palmer Luckey The last thing I'll say on this, I talked about it earlier, there's a uniquely American delusion, probably from our own Hollywood films, that we can solve any problem the last second.
#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
- ▶ 25:16 David Sacks And this is the source, I think, of all of our political strife in America is that the people who are in charge of our institutions from the New York Times to the Washington Post to the Fortune 500, Disney, Hollywood, um, and you go down…
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 0:35 Jason Calacanis A six is like, you know, Paris Hilton, you know, in her heyday, or like Lindsay Lohan in Hollywood in the nineties.
- ▶ 39:29 David Sacks I think there is an increasing, uh, let's call it a Hollywood director, a Hollywood auteur mentality towards VCs. 2 times in the scene
E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
- ▶ 47:07 David Friedberg Like Hollywood no longer has a monopoly on content.
E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
- ▶ 23:04 David Sacks So, for example, the local bartender had her bar run out of business by lockdowns, but Hollywood Studios would get a break
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- ▶ 47:09 David Sacks We're tweeting about this, and so the problem is, you know, like, people like us diversify our information diet, but there are large parts of the country that are just receiving this information, and it gets basically passed down from the…
E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- ▶ 1:01:32 Chamath Palihapitiya But by doing that, they basically dominate the content production game in Hollywood, which then allows them to field the most content at the cheapest average price, which then makes churn less and customer acquisition higher.
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 39:52 David Sacks I mean, Hollywood,
- ▶ 50:46 David Sacks I think they pervade Hollywood and the entertainment industry and even the news industry.
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 1:19:41 David Sacks It seems like finance is going to go the same way that media did, where you start to see studios in Hollywood all get gobbled up by big tech. 2 times in the scene
E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
- ▶ 1:07:41 David Sacks It's like one of those classic, you know, Hollywood or entrepreneur stories. 2 times in the scene
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 1:04:07 David Sacks We're trying to do takeaways on these moves by Big Tech to buy Hollywood Studios, and I'm telling you, it's about who has,
E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
- ▶ 20:27 David Sacks He, uh, was even a Hollywood director.
E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- ▶ 53:06 David Sacks So, Hollywood's a little bit of its own beast, where there's all these gatekeepers, and the gatekeepers are always trying to get control over, you know, the creative product.
E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
- ▶ 2:28:11 Phil Hellmuth There was a lot of excitement about Reagan who came, you know, from Hollywood.
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 26:59 Jason Calacanis Moral compass, especially Hollywood, which is changing the ending of movies to satisfy the CCP. 2 times in the scene
E4: Politicizing the pandemic, Police reform, Twitter vs Facebook with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 1:17:41 David Sacks Well, look, I hear, here's the problem with Oprah, or if you want, you know, any other Hollywood celebrity, George Clooney or what have you, um, they're just, they're not used to getting beat up the way that politicians in our country get…
E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 59:14 Jason Calacanis Corrupting our art and that incremental dollar that Hollywood's getting or whichever, you know, person trading with China's getting, I think it's not worth giving up what makes America unique and a leader in the world.
E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
- ▶ 2:15 Chamath Palihapitiya And, uh, was a chief operating officer there, left PayPal, uh, moved to Los Angeles, uh, unsuccessfully, uh, kept his virginity, found a way to not get laid as a movie producer in Hollywood, which seems to be impossible, but he, David…