Mastercard
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 29, 2021 by Chamath Palihapitiya · said 52 times in 28 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2026 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
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2025 12 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
- Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
- Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- 2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
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2024 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
- DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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2023 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
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2022 8 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
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2021 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
- E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
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Everything said about Mastercard, oldest first
Dec 29, 2021 bearish
Apr 16, 2022 negative
Chamath: Visa and Mastercard raising fees during inflation is extremely dumb
“Visa and MasterCard, I think are doing the single dumbest thing they could do by being a duopoly, which is raising prices, especially into an inflationary moment, which just lacks complete knowledge and sensitivity of the moment.”
Sep 18, 2025 bearish
Yakovenko: Banks are more disruptible than Visa and MasterCard
“My, like contrary opinion is that I think Visa and MasterCard are more technology companies, and if you look at their, like, profit margin on the gross payment volume, it's like 10 basis points. It's like vapor. I think the issuer and receiver bank, those are …”
Feb 28, 2026
Calacanis: Financial stocks fell up to 8% following viral AI report
“After this piece came out, which speculated that agents would get rid of all the three percent interchange fees and move everybody to settle transactions on stablecoins, all the financial stocks got hit on Monday. Amex down eight percent, Capital One down eigh…”