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E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- ▶ 13:31 Jason Calacanis See, I think, and this is, I guess what I'd ask Freeberg, do you compare this to buying a MacBook pro buying an iPhone or buying the Oculus, you know, whatever they, you know, 500 dollar unit, because everybody I see talking about online…
E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- ▶ 1:02:24 Jason Calacanis They were using streaming maybe to sell more iPhones or to get more Amazon Prime subscribers. 2 times in the scene
E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
- ▶ 37:02 Jason Calacanis I don't know what you guys spent on your iPhone, 15 if you got it, but I, I always buy the top of the line, and I think it was 14 or 1500 dollars this time.
- ▶ 37:23 Jason Calacanis I skipped the 14 this time around.
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 57:20 Jason Calacanis If you haven't connected ChatGPT's voice app to the new action button on the iPhone 15, there's a button above your volume called action.
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 1:05:49 David Sacks With the App Store when the iPhone launched, same thing was true when the internet launched.
E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- ▶ 57:59 Jason Calacanis I don't know if you guys saw this, but a 1,000,000,005 iPhones were just recalled for the 17.2 update. 3 times in the scene
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 1:04:24 Jason Calacanis Just very quickly, OpenAI is in advanced talks according to the Financial Times with Johnny Ive of iPhone fame, Steve Jobs' long-term collaborator, and Masi Yoshisan of SoftBank to raise more than one billion dollars to build the iPhone of… 2 times in the scene
All-In Summit: In conversation with Vinod Khosla
- ▶ 22:04 Jason Calacanis Apple with the iPhone, maybe?
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:24:53 Jason Calacanis They're going to skip an iPhone cycle.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 7:40 David Friedberg We, we had, it seemed like three decades of incredible collaboration, uh, with China, and the West, and America specifically, and just look at what happened with the iPhone and the number of people who, who, um, rose out of poverty, um, in… 2 times in the scene
All-In Summit: Ro Khanna on China, political reform, major challenges facing the US and more
- ▶ 10:19 Jason Calacanis When they say to you, this is what the consumer market wants, they want an iPhone for 400 dollars, not for 2000 dollars, how do we respond to the conversation about what
E140: LK-99, Sclerotic establishments, Fitch downgrades US debt, Trump indicted... again
- ▶ 29:45 Jason Calacanis Microprocessors and the iPhone.
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 2:07:46 Jason Calacanis I took my iPhone 14 and I squatted down and took pictures of these dingleberries.
E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
- ▶ 25:59 David Friedberg That arose with the iPad iPhone revolution, and obviously the internet, the browser was a, was a new UX, and the browser provided hyperlinks, and in one window you would click through and go to lots of different things, and then that…
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 1:36:54 Jason Calacanis There were a lot of people who were playing with iPhones in the app store and you know, they made a calculator or a flashlight that got
E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- ▶ 13:57 David Friedberg We're seeing, you know, models that can effectively run on an iPhone, we're seeing a number of open source models that are being published.
- ▶ 29:30 Chamath Palihapitiya So before that is created and shrunk down to an iPhone, I think we need to put some stage gates up to slow people down.
E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
- ▶ 8:37 Jason Calacanis I mean, the iPhone for Apple. 2 times in the scene
E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- ▶ 10:40 Chamath Palihapitiya If you think about how long did we wait for, from iPhone one to iPhone two, it was a year, right?
- ▶ 14:11 Jason Calacanis I don't know if you saw this story, but if you remember the hit game on your iPhone, Flappy Birds.
- ▶ 18:22 David Friedberg And so when I open up my iPhone, maybe it's not a screen with dozens of video games, but it's one interface.
- ▶ 1:05:07 David Friedberg You could store it on a hard drive or you could store it on your iPhone and you could then go run it on any set of servers that you could go set up physically anywhere.
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 1:02:06 Jason Calacanis iPhones being the, the best example, possibly we're selling them in China.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 15:13 David Sacks I mean, I think this is the most important developer platform since the iPhone and the launch of iOS and the app store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:54 David Friedberg That's less data than, you know, fits on my iPhone.
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 45:32 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, if you guys have an iPhone, it's Google search. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:23 David Friedberg Search engine on iPhones on the Safari browser.
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 26:42 David Friedberg I mean, we do have 600 dollar iPhones because of it, and we do have cheap TVs, and there has been a consumer market that's demanded these low priced goods to live a better life. 4 times in the scene
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 45:02 David Sacks Maybe the iPhone or something.
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 30:03 David Friedberg And today we have an iPhone that can do two trillion flops of compute in your pocket.
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 1:14:36 David Friedberg Like, you could fit this model on probably what, 20% of the storage space on your iPhone, and you could run this thing and you could probably just talk to it for the rest of your life.
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 22:57 Chamath Palihapitiya So today, let's just say you buy a chip to make the iPhone.
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 36:00 Chamath Palihapitiya Apple spent 3.6 billion dollars to create the first iPhone. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:28 Chamath Palihapitiya The Apple phone program got right.
- ▶ 1:20:47 Jason Calacanis So, Friedberg, if that happens, do you think that China escalates and says, well, why are we building iPhones here? 2 times in the scene
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 1:59 Jason Calacanis Apple pull back iPhone production for the 14 after slower than anticipated demand.
- ▶ 35:58 Jason Calacanis But then the person who's, ah, variable interest mortgage just kicked in, has 500 dollars less a month, ah, in savings, so they're now not gonna buy an iPhone 14.
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 48:50 Jason Calacanis Do we actually know that we, we might have actually pushed off a war with China because we make iPhones together.
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 1:00:58 Jason Calacanis I think we all agree whether it's medical devices, PPE, drugs, making our iPhones or oil to keep us right and then sort of Europe
#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril
- ▶ 12:51 Palmer Luckey And even if they're working on something the military buys, let's say all the people at Apple who are working on an iPhone that can be sold to the US Air Force, that same iPhone is also being sold to Russian intelligence. 3 times in the scene
E82: All-In Summit: Claire Cormier Thielke on China + Q&A with Flexport's Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 26:31 Jason Calacanis We started making iPhones there.
- ▶ 55:13 Jason Calacanis Um, we had this great moment where, you know, we engaged China, we built a bunch of iPhones, Amazon basics, you know, whatever it is, Nike shoes.
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 52:28 Jason Calacanis So if you're making the iPhone, what happens to the iPhone when the consumer gets rid of it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:51 David Friedberg It's a slippery slope, because then you end up seeing China ban iPhones, and I mean, you know, the whole thing kind
E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more
- ▶ 18:05 David Friedberg And he's like, if there were iPhones, when I was young, I would not have ever been elected to public office.
- ▶ 1:03:36 Jason Calacanis So if you're on an iPhone, and you want to use Apple Pay with a Google app purchase, you can do that.
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 1:59 David Sacks This is pre-iPhone, guys.
- ▶ 49:14 Jason Calacanis The default search on your iPhone goes to Google.
- ▶ 1:04:55 Jason Calacanis If we go back two years, and they did deploy ten billion into phones, they take an 800 dollar bomb, which is probably what the best iPhone 2 times in the scene
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 20:10 Chamath Palihapitiya So kind of like, we won't, we won't buy Nazi goods, but we're, we'll sell our iPhones into Nazi Germany.
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 3:10 Jason Calacanis On his iPhone, the Rain Man himself, David Sachs.
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 20:05 David Sacks His view is that this was the iPhone moment for blockchain, that, that what Solana has built because it's massively scalable and also very cheap.
- ▶ 44:51 Chamath Palihapitiya Price is more expensive chip prices makes the iPhone and cars more expensive or completely backlogged.
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 1:23:41 Jason Calacanis Or iPhones coming out of China.
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 1:02:36 David Friedberg And, you know, they're putting out this Pixel six phone that looks like an incredible piece of equipment that's cheaper than the iPhone.
- ▶ 1:13:37 Chamath Palihapitiya You have to remember when Apple introduced the iPhone, there was nothing that came before it.
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 18:31 Chamath Palihapitiya In iOS that allowed you to basically turn on the microphone, turn on the camera, you know, grab anything you needed from iPhones.
- ▶ 1:17:42 Jason Calacanis That company sells this many iPhones, that company sells this many.
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 1:21:33 Balaji Srinivasan And that's like saying the early iPhone camera is just a poor camera.
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 59:57 Chamath Palihapitiya But you know, the Israeli spy firm NSO had apparently created a zero click exploit for the iPhone, where you could turn on the camera and the microphone and basically spy on folks completely unaware.
E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- ▶ 55:50 Jason Calacanis This, uh, just so people understand, um, Apple said it would, uh, allow media apps to create in-app links to sign up pages on those companies' websites, allowing the likes of Spotify and Netflix to bypass the iPhone maker's cut of…
E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
- ▶ 9:59 Chamath Palihapitiya I am on my iPhone.
- ▶ 45:11 Jason Calacanis To iPhones. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:43 Jason Calacanis Seems reasonable and provide iPhone technologies to third party software makers. 6 times in the scene
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 25:06 Jason Calacanis I mean, sometimes people will buy an iPhone because it's obviously protecting their privacy, and they know it's not an ad based model. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:35 Jason Calacanis So this might not be Trump saying, get me his iPhone records.
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 1:21:28 Jason Calacanis The iPhone have been created by a remote team. 3 times in the scene
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 1:16:45 David Friedberg I mean, even the, even the iPhone, like ordering stuff on Amazon.
E24: Markets trend down, political pandemic manipulation, stimulus breakdown, biological Patriot Act
- ▶ 1:05:08 Jason Calacanis The battery and go walk to another bar without having to fear that somebody's going to stab me for my goddamn iPhone, you know, or, or, or some poor kid's going to get attacked by somebody deranged out of their mind on fentanyl.
E23: Radical DAs, breaking down FB/Google vs. Australia, sustained fear post-vaccine & fan questions
- ▶ 1:12:22 Chamath Palihapitiya Prices go screaming higher because instead of having one factory in China making nine billion iPhone cases, you have now 50 factories all around the world, each with their own infrastructures and costs and whatever.
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 1:25:48 Jason Calacanis They made, you know, iPhone chargers, five dollars.
E9: Trump has COVID, First debate reactions, Coinbase letter response & more
- ▶ 31:21 Jason Calacanis It's not going to affect people buying iPhones.
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 18:00 Chamath Palihapitiya That can only include iPhones.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 32:20 David Sacks Um, you know, obviously all of our technology, our iPhones are advanced event weaponry.
- ▶ 46:37 David Friedberg So, um, you know, Chamath, if we do end up in Cold War II, uh, where, you know, we escalate the tension and escalate the divide, how do we end up, um, you know, having, avoiding 2000 dollar or 3000 dollar iPhones?
E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 1:02:44 Jason Calacanis Let's just go, let's just, you, we don't have to keep letting them make, you know, socks or iPhones, but, you know, let's make the next automated factories and the three D printing factories here.
E1: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, VC & Public Markets with David Friedberg
- ▶ 1:10:11 Jason Calacanis Look, think about the iPhone, um, and obviously,
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