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Mark Zuckerberg

27 statements across 20 episodes · 5 bullish · 17 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2020 by Chamath Palihapitiya · said 527 times in 135 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Mark Zuckerberg's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

Mentions by year

brought up most by Jason Calacanis (235), Chamath Palihapitiya (85), David Sacks (84), David Friedberg (40), Cyan Banister (23), Senator Eric Schmitt (14), Gavin Baker (9), Thomas Laffont (5)

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2026 90 mentions in 18 episodes 5 per episode
2025 136 mentions in 29 episodes 5 per episode
2024 79 mentions in 26 episodes 3 per episode
2023 49 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
2022 53 mentions in 14 episodes 4 per episode
2021 87 mentions in 21 episodes 4 per episode
2020 33 mentions in 6 episodes 6 per episode

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Everything said about Mark Zuckerberg, oldest first

Jul 31, 2020 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Zuckerberg's neutral free speech stance is socially and technologically untenable
“I think Zuck's position is the most defensible, but it also is the most untenable because it's the most, it's the least technologically and socially palatable, but it is the most defensible and philosophically, in my opinion, the only position you can have, bu…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 31, 2020 ▶ 42:40 E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
Oct 16, 2020 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Mark Zuckerberg contributed $11M to California's Proposition 15 campaign
“So so I saw that, that Mark Zuckerberg had contributed eleven million dollars to try and convince the people of California to vote for this prop 15, which is the largest property tax increase in California history.”
David Sacks Oct 16, 2020 ▶ 46:25 E10: Twitter & Facebook botch censorship (again), the publisher vs. distributor debate & more
Jan 23, 2021 bearish
Opinion
Sacks: Deplatforming by Facebook and Twitter strips citizens of speech rights
“The town square is now owned by Facebook and Twitter. The town square got privatized and our speech rights are now in the hands of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey as a practical matter. I mean, you do not have speech rights in the modern world if you get depla…”
David Sacks Jan 23, 2021 ▶ 29:25 E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
Mar 27, 2021 negative
Opinion
David Sacks: Zuckerberg's Section 230 proposal is regulatory capture protecting Facebook
“Small startups can't hire 30,000 people to do content moderation. So this is like classic regulatory capture, but done brazenly in the open at a congressional hearing.”
David Sacks Mar 27, 2021 ▶ 43:01 E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
Oct 30, 2021 negative
Opinion
Calacanis: Developers are crazy to build on Meta's metaverse over decentralized platforms
“I think any developer who puts any amount of their effort into supporting in any way, Zuckerberg's view of the metaverse is crazy when they could do it on a distributed decentralized crypto based open source platform.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 30, 2021 ▶ 1:05:46 E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
Oct 30, 2021
Opinion
Friedberg: Zuckerberg is much more product-driven than Larry Page was
“No, I think he's way more active and driven in terms of product direction than Larry ever was. So I don't think they're the same person and I wouldn't like in these two.”
David Friedberg Oct 30, 2021 ▶ 1:10:34 E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
Dec 4, 2021 positive
Opinion
Friedberg: Tech founders Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, and Dorsey favor free speech
“All these guys, Larry, Larry and Sergei, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey they are all fundamentally free speech people. They believe in the power of the open internet.”
David Friedberg Dec 4, 2021 ▶ 1:10:35 E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
May 13, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Facebook took a 40% valuation haircut during the 2008 crisis
“I remember we raised money from Microsoft at a 15.3 billion dollar valuation. The great financial crisis took hold and Mark to his credit reset the valuation. We were already profitable, so we didn't necessarily need to raise that money, but we, I think we rai…”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 13, 2022 ▶ 1:23:28 E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
Oct 29, 2022 negative
Opinion
Friedberg: Zuckerberg should buy Epic Games for $50B instead of building metaverse
“If Zuck was a smart guy, he would go to Tencent and cut him a check and buy the whole thing for fifty billion and, you know, buy those guys.”
David Friedberg Oct 29, 2022 ▶ 44:23 E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
Oct 29, 2022 negative
What-if
Calacanis: Zuckerberg should have made Sandberg CEO of Facebook
“He should have put Sheryl Sandberg, a CEO of the Facebook corporation. He should have became CEO of Meta, and then he should have ran that other business to print even more profits.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 29, 2022 ▶ 56:52 E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
Apr 14, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Mandating government approval for AI will kill student startup innovation
“So you're going to replace permissionless innovation with going to Washington to go through some approval process, and it will be the politically connected, it'll be the big donors who get their projects approved, and the next Mark Zuckerberg, who's trying to …”
David Sacks Apr 14, 2023 ▶ 58:12 E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
Jun 24, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath says Mark Zuckerberg burned a quarter-trillion dollars at Meta
“The guy burned a quarter trillion dollars and then found a way to stop it.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 24, 2023 ▶ 14:48 E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
Nov 17, 2023
Disclosure
Zuckerberg told Phillips that verifying Facebook accounts is a competitive disadvantage
“I asked Mark Zuckerberg after a financial services hearing a couple years ago, you know, why, why doesn't Facebook just verify accounts, make this so much easier to hold people accountable and have higher standards of accountability? And he said it would be a …”
Dean Phillips Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 43:54 In conversation with Dean Phillips
Dec 1, 2023
Disclosure
Chamath: Zuckerberg and I exclusively signed Facebook's Irish IP transfer deal
“You know, at Facebook, there was a moment where we divested all of our IP to a subsidiary in Ireland. And for tax reasons, and there were two signatories to that deal. It was me and Zuck.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 1:45:37 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Sep 23, 2024 positive
Opinion
Arora: Mark Zuckerberg's open-source AI models keep competitors honest
“Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, throwing out open source models, he keeps them honest and fair everywhere around there, so we'll all get access to these models”
Nikesh Arora Sep 23, 2024 ▶ 25:07 Nikesh Arora | All-In Summit 2024
Dec 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Levie: Zuckerberg's open-source strategy suppresses AI pricing for the industry
“Zuck is our counter pressure on the price of AI right now, and I think that he has a way of monetizing AI that is, I mean, Google kind of has a similar thing, but they're, they have a more existential challenge that I think they're actually doing relatively we…”
Aaron Levie Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 45:52 The All-In Holiday Spectacular
Jan 11, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Calacanis: Zuckerberg spent $150M on Meta's Oversight Board to dodge hard decisions
“Zuck created the oversight board. He's so spineless, he decided, I'll create and give a hundred fifty million dollars to this board to make these hard decisions for me, instead of me making the decision.”
Jason Calacanis Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 1:09:35 LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
Jan 11, 2025 negative
Opinion
Calacanis: Zuckerberg's free speech pivot is strictly to appease Donald Trump
“I think he is terrified of Trump and having his company broken up, and he's doing this strictly to appease Trump.”
Jason Calacanis Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 1:18:43 LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
Jan 11, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Bannister: Zuckerberg listed his profile as libertarian when Facebook launched
“And then along came Facebook and he added this third option called libertarian. And I would like to go to the way back machine at some point and find his profile because his profile said he was a libertarian.”
Cyan Banister Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 1:01:31 LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
Jan 11, 2025 negative
Prediction Held up
Bannister: 2025 leaks will reveal government coerced Zuckerberg into censoring Meta
“And after January, we're going to find out some interesting stuff and we'll get to the bottom of, you know, how did the government pressure him to censor things? And I think he's getting in front of that because it is going to come out. And I think that is a h…”
Cyan Banister Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 1:13:56 LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
Jan 11, 2025 negative
What-if
Calacanis: Zuckerberg would have doubled down on censorship if Harris won
“But I can tell you if Kamala Harris had been voted in, he would double down on censorship instead of taking this position.”
Jason Calacanis Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 1:18:37 LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
Jan 11, 2025 negative
Opinion
Calacanis: Mark Zuckerberg is the greatest censor in human history
“His action was to be the greatest censor in the history of humanity. There's no human being who censored more humans than him.”
Jason Calacanis Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 1:08:44 LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
Mar 29, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Palihapitiya: IRS has sued him and Zuckerberg for a decade over IP
“When I was helping to run Facebook, I was a signatory. When we were setting up Facebook abroad, we exported all of our IP to Ireland. And lo and behold, who do they sue? Zuck, Meta, and me. And we've been in this 10 year lawsuit, 15 year lawsuit with the IRS b…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 35:02 The AI Cold War, Signalgate, CoreWeave IPO, Tariff Endgames, El Salvador Deportations
Sep 7, 2025 positive
Opinion
Palihapitiya: Mark Zuckerberg handled UK free speech questions well
“It was a tough question. It was about free speech in the UK and he did a pretty good job.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 17:17 Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
Jan 22, 2026 negative
Opinion
Calacanis: Mark Zuckerberg is a political weathervane driven solely by growth
“I mean, if it was up to Zuckerberg, he would have continued to do it under Kamala. He did it with no problem under Biden. He's a weathervane. His entire position is based on what makes the system grow.”
Jason Calacanis Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 31:56 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
May 22, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zuckerberg: Meta's internal engineers will accelerate AI coding progress beyond rivals
“Having people internally build tools that, or solve tasks that that help teach the model how to code, We think is going to dramatically increase our model's coding ability faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don't have thousa…”
Mark Zuckerberg May 22, 2026 ▶ 38:42 SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
Aug 13, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Meta sued every startup attempting to index its social graph
“Zuckerberg, please explain how this concept is compatible with the fact that you have sued every startup, many of which I've invested in, that has ever tried to index or use the social graph at Instagram or Facebook.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 41:37 Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
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