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The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next
- ▶ 34:14 Jason Calacanis Because it was an independent company, venture backed, then Sergey and Larry bought it, it was part of Google, then it got sold, I think, Masayoshi-san owned it at some point, but I believe Hyundai owns it now.
Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
- ▶ 29:50 Travis Kalanick And what I mean by that is like, in the Uber world early days, if you didn't have capital, it didn't matter how good your app was, because Masa is going to put a billion dollars into your competitor, and you're going to lose 20% market…
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 1:05:38 Brad Gerstner That's what's leading Massa and Sam and others to place these, these heroic bets.
Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI: Nvidia Lessons, Intel’s Decline and the US-China Chip War
- ▶ 1:40 Rene Haas You know, one of the things about Jensen that is amazing, I think it's also true for people like, uh, Michael Dell, uh, Masa.
- ▶ 3:26 Chamath Palihapitiya Masayoshi-san and SoftBank took arm private. 2 times in the scene
Nasdaq CEO Reveals the Next Era Of The Stock Market - Adena Friedman | All-In Summit
- ▶ 15:51 Jason Calacanis We heard, um, uh, Vlad talk earlier today about tokenizing OpenAI and SpaceX, and I know when Masayoshi-san wanted to buy a bunch of, um, Uber when it was a private company, they did that through NASDAQ, uh, and I guess second market?
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 1:01:52 David Friedberg The rumor today was they're raising forty billion at a three hundred and forty billion dollar pre-money with Masa potentially being the lead. 8 times in the scene
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 1:10:50 Jason Calacanis Yoshi-san was at the announcement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:19 Thomas Laffont My second point is, can we do a slight detour on Masa for one minute? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:21 Chamath Palihapitiya It was not a commentary on Masa or Larry or Sam. 2 times in the scene
Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 1:01:32 Jason Calacanis The Tigers and that sort of cohort, Softbank, Masayoshi-san.
Nikesh Arora | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 1:43 Chamath Palihapitiya And then you got seduced to go work with Masayoshi-san at SoftBank where you're vice chairman and president.
- ▶ 6:44 Jason Calacanis Venture fund ever created, a hundred billion dollars, and you have this mercurial, brilliant individual, Masayoshi-san, and he starts placing bets in a way that we've never seen. 22 times in the scene
Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- ▶ 1:07:16 Jason Calacanis We, uh, we had a similar thing happen with Uber where they did the secondary and, um, you know, they, they had Masayoshi-san come in and do an IPO essentially.
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 1:33:30 Jason Calacanis Japan had Yahoo Japan, uh, which Masayoshi-san had carved out and was never part of it, and they were loyal to that and very nationalistic Koreans and very innovative folks at Daum and Naver just made search that was so amazing.
Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
- ▶ 1:52 Jason Calacanis This after it was reported that Sam was looking to raise a billion from Masayoshi-san to create an iPhone killer with Johnny Ive, the co-creator of the iPhone.
E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
- ▶ 36:11 Chamath Palihapitiya In the MASA example last week, but it just requires shutting out the noise because it's so hard to believe in yourself.
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 4:46 David Friedberg And I think it really begs the question, did Masa have a masterful move here yet again? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:36 David Sacks Look, I mean, he's a gambler, and he is playing a power loss, so he only needs one really big return to basically make up for all the mistakes, and it seems like he's hit that. 8 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 1:42:39 Jason Calacanis Was it Sam doing deals with Masayoshi-san or in the Middle East to make, ah, you know, AI chips?
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… 3 times in the scene
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 49:20 Jason Calacanis Arm owned by SoftBank, Masayoshi-san looking to raise ten billion, had a 50, 60, seventy billion dollar valuation, could be the largest IPO of the year.
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 13:12 Jason Calacanis Masayoshi-san was pretty repentant and humble.
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 1:06:59 Jason Calacanis Got released and I mean, their, their funds underwater, just like Masayoshi-san's fund is underwater.
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 28:06 Jason Calacanis Previous to that I had, I sold some to Masa.
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 9:12 Jason Calacanis They only remember the Masayoshi-san, four billion dollars, and what happened, and what he did with that, and that was a complete clusterfuck.
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 1:21:57 Jason Calacanis If you're battling that out, you know, Yuri Milner is going to come over the top and pay two billion more than you, or Masayoshi-san is going to pay five or ten billion dollars more than you.
E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
- ▶ 32:59 Bill Gurley That was Masa.
- ▶ 37:58 Brad Gerstner So I'm not, I mean, listen, we all thought Masa, SoftBank was going to be a wipeout in Vision One. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:33 Brad Gerstner Unfortunately, what you didn't plan on was MASA raiding Saudi Arabia, getting a hundred billion dollars of free money, and then blowing it out of a can and into the market so Lyft and everybody else could do diseconomic things.
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 1:09:43 David Friedberg And Masa-san was supposed to be on TikTok's board.
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 1:18:28 David Friedberg And so, you know, I think SoftBank, you know, Masa's son had this whole belief with Vision Fund One, when he raised the hundred some odd billion dollars that, you know, the singularity where machines were going to be smarter and better…
- ▶ 1:22:31 David Friedberg What do you think will differentiate the opportunity for success with Larry Page owning and running Boston Dynamics, then Masa owning and running Boston Dynamics, and then Elon trying to take on the same project from scratch? 4 times in the scene
E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
- ▶ 32:10 Jason Calacanis My question is why would Masayoshi-san or another entity ever invest in China?
- ▶ 37:37 Jason Calacanis What does this do to, like, the Sequoia Capital China, the Masayoshi-san investing heavily there, Tencent investing here? 2 times in the scene
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 1:15:16 Jason Calacanis What about Masayoshi-san? 2 times in the scene