Jeff Bezos, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Jeff Bezos comes up
E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- ▶ 1:06:50 David Friedberg More recently, Yuri Milner, Jeff Bezos, Arch, and others put a billion dollars to seed a new company called Altos Labs to pursue therapeutics in this area.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 10:19 Jason Calacanis She was attacking Bezos for pay in factories and getting to a 15 dollar minimum wage.
- ▶ 1:03:00 Jason Calacanis If you haven't seen, she's attacking Elon and Bezos in Facebook ads trying to grift to get 10 dollars while she's got twelve million in equities that she paid like zero dollars on because that's how the tax system that she has
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 1:00:09 Jason Calacanis They would be total proponents of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk if they did.
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- ▶ 54:17 Chamath Palihapitiya There was a, there was a, there was a rant by Bernie Sanders yesterday, basically saying, how could we have allowed Jeff Bezos, Mr.
- ▶ 57:44 Bernie Sanders Unbelievably, this bill would provide and authorize some ten billion dollars in taxpayer money to Jeff Bezos, the second wealthiest person in America, for his space race with Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in America. 8 times in the scene
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 10:37 Chamath Palihapitiya And so when you, and then you have, I, and I think the, the most important thing, which is the two most important founders of our generation, the two smartest people who have really consistently won, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have…
- ▶ 1:08:14 Jason Calacanis Bezos is going to be donating his yacht to the, uh.
- ▶ 1:29:05 Chamath Palihapitiya And one of the things that I did was we calculated what Bezos is investment track record was, right? 4 times in the scene
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 21:37 Jason Calacanis Assets that are liquid, but that have not yet been sold, and it would look back three years, essentially going after Bezos or Elon, Larry, Sergey, basically going after the top 10 billionaires in the world, and then maybe it was going to…
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 1:14:21 Jason Calacanis You guys want to end on, uh, Jeff Bezos. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:24 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, let's, let's, let's talk about the AI bot first and then, and then Bezos.
- ▶ 1:20:35 David Sacks Should we talk about Elon versus Bezos on the space thing? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:45 Jason Calacanis Alright, Bezos is lost his way, um, and he left his position as CEO of Amazon to focus on Blue Origin, and then he, um, sued NASA over the moon program, accusing NASA of wrongly evaluating its lunar lander proposal, giving all the funds to… 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:34 David Friedberg If Bezos offered you a huge, um, consulting fee, Jake, how would you be his bestie, um, consigliere?
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 41:23 David Friedberg I mean, Bezos has been funding Blue Origin for 20 years, right?
E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
- ▶ 50:29 Chamath Palihapitiya If you just like, if you eliminate or you decrease the denominator of the global population, the odds that there's another Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos that are created are just lower.
E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
- ▶ 59:06 Jason Calacanis Two different companies went to space last week with civilians, and then we are basically, uh, defining the blueprint for the human and every other species on the planet, and we're fighting over people too stupid to take a goddamn vaccine… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:03 Jason Calacanis Should we, Chamath, be upset that Bezos is going to space and spending tens of billions of dollars that he made from Amazon? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:55 David Sacks Even the Bezos gift. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:52 Chamath Palihapitiya What I loved is when Friedberg used us and Elon and Bezos in the same sentence, because I catch myself where I'm ashamed sometimes where I'm like, I am not as good as those two guys. 3 times in the scene
E40: A Bestie gets COVID, Delta breakthrough, Billionaire Space Race & more
- ▶ 1:04:57 David Sacks If I had a five hundred million dollar super yacht like Jeff Bezos, that's where I'd be hanging out. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:38 Jason Calacanis Honestly, that's so petty by Bezos. 7 times in the scene
E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
- ▶ 1:12:46 David Friedberg And now that Bezos is actually going to step out, and it is going to be run by a bunch of managers, and you have these founders of these three companies still running all three of those businesses.
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 18:03 Jason Calacanis And I think to be clear, Freeberg, what you're saying is this is driven by the extraordinary wealth of Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 26:47 Jason Calacanis Bezos has decided that he will be the first billionaire in space. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:53 David Friedberg I mean, we don't know how, you know, the, I don't know anything about this, but I'm pretty sure that if Bezos is going, he's a pretty smart guy. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:02 David Sacks Well, I'll give Bezos credit for dogfooding his own product, but, um, to, to me, I would take a contrarian view overall. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:26 Chamath Palihapitiya And it shows that, you know, in some years, guys like Bezos, um, paid no tax, um, whatsoever were able to take huge dedictions. 5 times in the scene
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 45:35 Jason Calacanis So this is kind of in my mind, of that eight or nine billion, they spent six billions on the franchise for James Bond so that Bezos can play James Bond.
- ▶ 52:58 David Sacks So my big takeaway from Bezos buying MGM and these other 3 times in the scene
E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- ▶ 58:25 Jason Calacanis This would be like putting Elon and Jeff Bezos on the bench.
E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- ▶ 20:56 Jason Calacanis Wasn't it that you would take the total value of what you have and just take away one percent a year from Bezos's, you know, or Zuckerberg's hundred billion dollars.
E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 32:44 Chamath Palihapitiya The Bezos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:23 Brad Gerstner But I do think it's incumbent upon Bezos.
- ▶ 45:57 Brad Gerstner What I love about this moment in time, what I love about the leadership of Benioff or Bezos or Gates or even Anthony Tan, this incredible mission values driven leader who's using the power of capitalism to uplift tens of millions of people…
E28: Current state of public & private markets, Archegos debacle, US debt issues, wealth tax & more
- ▶ 54:26 David Friedberg There are some people that get so much farther ahead, like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and these people that you can now look to and say, this is unfair. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:12 David Friedberg If Jeff Bezos stopped building Amazon, when he made a billion dollars because he was forced to by the government. 3 times in the scene
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 38:07 Jason Calacanis Basically, Amazon is finally saying, hey, we're just gonna, we're gonna stand up when Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders kind of attack us and attack Bezos. 2 times in the scene
E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- ▶ 44:03 David Friedberg And all the guys that have lasted for decades from Bezos to Zuck to, you know, Larry and Sergey, you know, they were continuously evolving themselves because they were continuous learners.
E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
- ▶ 40:29 Jason Calacanis Who was giving speeches and inspiring people, and I don't know what this does to entrepreneurship in China, but I mean, who in China is going to start a company now and want to be the next Jack Ma or Jeff Bezos?