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E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:14:58 Chamath Palihapitiya So that's just the trend that's happening, the Instagrams of the world.
- ▶ 1:32:58 Brad Gerstner If I'm Instagram or WhatsApp, like they'll buy me. 2 times in the scene
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 1:33:05 Chamath Palihapitiya In a world of machine learning where an AI where theoretically you can have conversational languages inside of WhatsApp or Messenger or Instagram, you see this beautiful picture, you're like, book me a ticket to that place. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:42 Jason Calacanis There were a small number of acts, things like DistroKid or Instagram, where small teams built things that printed money and had incredibly high margins.
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 1:38:06 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And everything that I posted on Instagram was cited or sourced to a government database or peer-reviewed publication.
E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- ▶ 17:24 David Friedberg That's most of what we consume nowadays, or Instagram or TikTok in terms of video content.
- ▶ 29:36 David Friedberg You know, it's a two hour movie, 30 minute TV segment, eight minute YouTube clip, 32nd Instagram clip, whatever.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 22:54 Chamath Palihapitiya They want to be able to enable Instagram users and WhatsApp users and Facebook users to interact through messenger or what have you.
- ▶ 1:12:12 David Friedberg We did not have the concept of Instagram influencers.
E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 1:20:36 Jason Calacanis They are saying they will not divest, but any buddy who is an investor in a company that had a chance to go public for tens of billions of dollars and eventually take on, and people believe that this is a viable competitor to Facebook and…
- ▶ 1:24:27 Jason Calacanis We're not allowed to have Google, Twitter, Instagram, whatever in China.
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:21:39 Brad Gerstner And my kids use reels, and you know, you and I have had a spirited debate on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:44 Jason Calacanis In order for TikTok to be allowed here in the United States, then Twitter, Facebook, Meta, Instagram, LinkedIn, et cetera, need to be allowed in China and you have this many days to reciprocate or else it's banned.
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 55:24 David Friedberg Instagram's closed.
- ▶ 1:17:08 David Friedberg Just like Instagram, just like Instagram. 3 times in the scene
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 1:14:32 Chamath Palihapitiya Guys, we're making, Instagram and YouTube have replicated it.
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 51:29 Jason Calacanis Everybody moves to YouTube and Instagram. 4 times in the scene
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 1:39:51 Chamath Palihapitiya A bunch of websites, I think it started because Instagram did a bunch of apps, deprecated, you know, likes, because they felt that it was too, it was part of this negative cycle.
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- ▶ 39:41 David Friedberg People are making more money on YouTube, on Instagram, on TikTok than ever before.
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 57:09 Jason Calacanis They started to pull the e-commerce string over at Instagram.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:14 Brad Gerstner For all the things we say about Instagram, I mean, TikTok has had explosive growth, 30% growth each of the last three years, but even the incumbent platforms, really sticky usage, this is about how they're monetizing those users, and the…
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- ▶ 1:10:45 David Friedberg We saw it happen with Instagram.
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 15:58 Chamath Palihapitiya Atlassian, Tesla, Uber, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, incredible businesses that have created tremendous value.
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 1:21:51 Jason Calacanis Um, Iran has shut off internet access, internet access in parts of Tehran, and blocked access to Instagram and WhatsApp to try to stop these protests.
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 25:03 David Friedberg It feels so similar to Facebook, Instagram, and Google, YouTube. 2 times in the scene
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 53:35 Jason Calacanis Three hundred twenty nine million followers on Instagram alone.
E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more
- ▶ 14:24 Jason Calacanis Because if you go to LinkedIn, or Facebook, or Instagram, you don't see this.
E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- ▶ 1:18:05 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, he would post on Instagram of assault rifles.
- ▶ 1:38:16 Chamath Palihapitiya But if we're already there, I just say, take the extra step and teach the kids because they're living on Instagram and TikTok every day.
E82: All-In Summit: Claire Cormier Thielke on China + Q&A with Flexport's Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 37:55 Ryan Petersen Um, so, so it hits companies of all sizes, but these DTC brands got a double whammy because Apple last, I think it was last year when they changed their privacy rules and their customer acquisition models on Instagram, Facebook, Facebook,…
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 1:16:56 Jason Calacanis They already banned Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in their country.
E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 37:16 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, most of these businesses that rely on Facebook and Google and Instagram for customer acquisition,
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 48:54 Jason Calacanis Instagram is still on Twitter still on but the Russians now are are turning off information into the country.
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 23:07 Jason Calacanis Does this deal, and we'll take the Activision deal here as, uh, but one example, but you could take the Instagram and the YouTube deals as well, uh, do these deals substantially reduce competition in the future?
- ▶ 29:56 David Sacks And then I think the last observation she makes, which I think is pretty, pretty valid, is this idea that, you know, when Facebook bought Instagram at that time, it didn't seem to be a problem, but it definitely allowed them to extend…
- ▶ 37:20 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that's the same for WhatsApp and Instagram at Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:23 David Friedberg WhatsApp was 19 people when it was acquired, and now it's thousands, I'm certain, and Instagram's the same.
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 43:48 Jason Calacanis Everybody on TikTok and Instagram and Twitter, young people in New York who went to SantaCon are saying they all got it.
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 1:12:30 Jason Calacanis Will we see an Amazon spin out AWS, a YouTube or an Instagram come out of their parent companies? 2 times in the scene
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 1:08:46 David Sacks By the way, I mean, how in the world is Facebook or Instagram more dangerous than TikTok?
E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more
- ▶ 5:52 Jason Calacanis Instagram is any indication he did pretty well because his Instagram suddenly turned into a world tour on private jets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:18 Jason Calacanis Um, that shows, like other media forms, uh, Instagram and Facebook have a really terrible effect on young people, specifically young girls and body dysmorphia, which seems to be the one thing that is landing pretty well.
- ▶ 55:56 David Sacks I don't find it compelling at all, and I'm not really on Instagram either.
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 58:44 Jason Calacanis That there is human trafficking, democracy issues, and obviously self harm in girls using Instagram and, you know, this research, but that's not all.
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 34:20 Jason Calacanis But just to queue up this past week, on Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook conducted in depth research on the impacts of Instagram on children's mental health from 2018 to 2020. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:38 Jason Calacanis You will remember that last year, or earlier this year, Facebook started floating the idea of Instagram for kids.
- ▶ 40:23 Jason Calacanis There, there have been other industries that have influenced this, but I don't think that they were as pernicious and as frequent in their use of as social media, you know, when reading a fashion magazine or watching TV, like slightly…
- ▶ 47:47 David Sacks The second thing she said is I don't use Instagram. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:43 Jason Calacanis Well, you know, the thing that's slightly different about tick tock is, you know, in Facebook or Instagram, you build your feed and Twitter, and then it serves it up algorithmically on tick tock. 2 times in the scene
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 1:16:19 Jason Calacanis Acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
- ▶ 1:05:20 Jason Calacanis Instagram, yes.
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 19:23 Jason Calacanis We assume it gets broken up and YouTube and Android are spun out Instagram, WhatsApp are spun out AWS is spun out. 2 times in the scene
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 27:00 Jason Calacanis Jeff Bezos in a promotional video on his Instagram, sprung this on his best friend, his bestie, his brother Mark, who agreed to go with him.
- ▶ 1:19:37 David Friedberg It's Instagram. 2 times in the scene
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 1:01:58 Chamath Palihapitiya It is what these folks have done, meaning like how Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian had built incredible scale and wealth is effectively through that they build scale through Instagram and Twitter and wherever TV show. 2 times in the scene
E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- ▶ 56:28 David Sacks I mean, they've seen that Instagram sold too soon.
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 13:29 Jason Calacanis Um, and so I took a little Insta, and I shared, I fed the Insta, and immediately I got three comments from friends who were like, what are you doing in that club? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:19 David Friedberg And so, while it does enable hard work to drive, you know, tremendous outcomes, the perception is that, holy crap, in three years, you know, Kylie Jenner went on Instagram and became a billionaire or whatever, right?
E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:11:29 Jason Calacanis If Instagram and YouTube stayed independent, wouldn't this have been much better for the investors?
E23: Radical DAs, breaking down FB/Google vs. Australia, sustained fear post-vaccine & fan questions
- ▶ 40:22 Jason Calacanis Facebook has given zero dollars to Instagram users, zero dollars WhatsApp users, zero dollars to Facebook folks.
E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
- ▶ 8:26 Jason Calacanis Marc Andreessen comes to it every night, and of course Elon came, interviewed Vlad, and then last night Zuckerberg showed up, uh, in order to get the blueprints for Clubhouse to then put it into his Instagram and Facebook.
E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
- ▶ 13:44 Chamath Palihapitiya At the other end of the example, you know, we have things that have happened like on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat, which is like, hey, all of a sudden, like, you know, certain kinds of content or certain things happened…
E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
- ▶ 58:47 Jason Calacanis Or Instagram woke up one day and said, for nine 95 a month, you can have none of your data, no advertising ad free, like Hulu does, you get Hulu or Hulu premium.
E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
- ▶ 23:32 Jason Calacanis Uh, and the oversight board is not to do the day to day policing of Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp activity, but it is to be a place where people who have been, have had content removed or have had their account suspended to appeal.
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 46:23 Jason Calacanis Will it be better for them than YouTube is for Google or Instagram is for?
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 17:11 Jason Calacanis So, in that way, if you look at it on a percentage basis, which is, you know, how you might look at the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is what percentage of the existing entity did they get?
E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- ▶ 49:42 Chamath Palihapitiya It's on his Instagram.
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 41:32 David Friedberg Individuals have found their own personal voice, and they found their own personal voice through social media, through Instagram, through this ability to kind of define themselves, not fit within a cohort.
E10: Twitter & Facebook botch censorship (again), the publisher vs. distributor debate & more
- ▶ 20:45 Chamath Palihapitiya Let's take, for example, uh, Instagram reels. 2 times in the scene
E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more
- ▶ 26:19 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, these are, these are, they're all just running around until they get caught on Instagram and get fired.
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 9:30 David Sacks But the, the sort of the first, uh, area was sort of anti-competitive, and I think Facebook took some, some hits with respect to the Instagram acquisition, um, which, uh, you know, uh, Congressman Nadler really went after him, and then I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Jason Calacanis The Instagram, uh, acquisition should be unwound, and they should be forced to spin that off, uh, because they were saying over and over and over again that Zuckerberg put in emails, uh, with his management team that they were going to buy… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:21 Chamath Palihapitiya And in many ways, Facebook started it because Facebook came to buy Instagram. 5 times in the scene
E1: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, VC & Public Markets with David Friedberg
- ▶ 1:06:03 Chamath Palihapitiya Taking, you know, unnecessary vacations because it drives your Instagram follower feed is fucking stupid.
E0: COVID-19 Political, Economic & Social Ramifications featuring David Friedberg
- ▶ 46:31 David Friedberg And, you know, when Tom Hanks goes back on Instagram and says, like, hey, look, like, I had a bad cold.
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