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Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 22:48 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think there's one, which is you are creating a competitor to Visa and MasterCard.
- ▶ 35:30 Chamath Palihapitiya So you put it all together, and I think it's a, it's a shot across the bow for Visa and MasterCard. 2 times in the scene
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 19:29 Marc Benioff And the CEO of MasterCard are on the trip. 2 times in the scene
Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 8:51 Jason Calacanis Amex down eight percent, Capital One down eight percent, MasterCard six percent, Visa four percent, yada yada.
Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
- ▶ 23:41 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, another market that seems has built a monopoly or a duopoly around transactions who's a little bit at risk is Visa and MasterCard. 3 times in the scene
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
- ▶ 20:15 Chamath Palihapitiya The Visas, the MasterCards, the JP Morgans, what roles do these companies play as you guys just become more and more ambitious and girthy and big and, you know, market cap and all that stuff? 2 times in the scene
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 15:38 Philippe Laffont You can look at the Visa and MasterCard earnings, but I also like just to listen to like little quotes, little tidbits that you pick up in the transcripts of, of,
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- ▶ 7:50 Chamath Palihapitiya Is there a moment, guys, where, is it a regulatory event where you'll say the Visa MasterCard duopoly can get challenged? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:18 Jason Calacanis Mastercard just canceled their sponsorship of All-In Summit, so this is costing us a fortune this podcast so far.
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 24:50 Chamath Palihapitiya I think we're going to finally attack the duopoly of Visa and MasterCard.
DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- ▶ 13:15 Chamath Palihapitiya but then the second thing it allows you to do is you, you start, you can see a world where now you can have real competition against the traditional rails, specifically Visa, MasterCard, American Express, because when you look at great…
New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 23:49 Gavin Baker It would have, you know, Visa and MasterCard, they do charge big fees. 2 times in the scene
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 4:17 David Sacks Visa, MasterCard, eBay, who else?
E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
- ▶ 1:23:24 David Sacks If you're doing payments, you're gonna have transaction fees that you pay to say Visa and MasterCard. 2 times in the scene
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:11:26 Brad Gerstner So if comp committees just walk in and they say the gold standard as a public company is 50 basis points annual dilution, that's Apple, that's Booking.com, Visa, MasterCard, or even below that, that's the gold standard once you're in the…
- ▶ 1:51:19 Chamath Palihapitiya And the few that can Visa, MasterCard and Adyen tend to trade at
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 6:11 Chamath Palihapitiya And what's interesting is that you look at companies like Visa and MasterCard that are doing quite well and have done really well for a long time.
- ▶ 21:14 Jason Calacanis They compete with Visa, MasterCard, and those other places.
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 1:07:48 Chamath Palihapitiya Visa, MasterCard, just as an example, you can now actually get one or two really smart people like him to lead an effort where you would say, here's a couple hundred million dollars to compete with Stripe, but here are the boundary… 2 times in the scene
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 41:55 Jason Calacanis Chamath said Visa, MasterCard, and Saks said assets classes that benefit from government, uh, dumps and, and pumps.
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 30:11 Jason Calacanis You said, uh, and Chamath Visa slash MasterCard
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 46:02 David Friedberg You would take all the data from Intuit, from PayPal, from Visa, from MasterCard, from the internet.
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 31:41 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, in that case, that was sort of like financial payments and rails and Visa, MasterCard, blah, blah, blah.
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 21:57 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, you would have thought that in 2023 or 20 22, what the government would have said to, you know, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, all the payment rails, the banks and Stripe is, send me a feed in the following structured way so that…
E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- ▶ 21:22 Chamath Palihapitiya By the way, I want to talk about one thing that I, at the end of last year, I talked about just a very random thing, um, about, you know, uh, Visa and MasterCard and how you could short them. 2 times in the scene
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 45:53 Chamath Palihapitiya Friedberg was mentioning Visa and MasterCard earlier in the group chat.
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 37:18 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, even if you look at like Visa and MasterCard.
E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- ▶ 27:09 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, I guess I'm fading you guys, and I'm also fading implicitly Friedberg's pick of Stripe, but my biggest business loser for 20, 22 is Visa and MasterCard and traditional payment rails and the entire ecosystem around it. 6 times in the scene
E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
- ▶ 1:00:29 David Sacks The CEO of Adobe, um, Shantanu Narayan, um, the CEOs of MasterCard, Nokia, Natap, and IBM, all Indian Americans.
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- ▶ 1:01:14 Chamath Palihapitiya And so they are looking at, and they, there's a rumor that they may switch the Amazon credit card off of visa rails and put them on mastercard rails. 2 times in the scene
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 28:48 David Sacks And frankly, we did something kind of similar with Visa MasterCard because PayPal was essentially an application on top of Visa MasterCard as well. 3 times in the scene
E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
- ▶ 1:20:56 David Friedberg You know, a lot of people make, make fun of this, but a few months ago or weeks ago, there's a porn website called Pornhub, and Visa, MasterCard, and Discover stopped processing payments for them, because the New York Times put out an…