McDonald's, every mention
47 scenes, the whole family · ← back to McDonald's
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Jason Calacanis 35Chamath Palihapitiya 21David Friedberg 18David Sacks 7Changpeng Zhao (CZ) 3Travis Kalanick 1Tony Robbins 1Graham Allison 1Dr. Mehmet Oz 1Dara Khosrowshahi 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where McDonald's comes up
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 48:37 David Sacks No, look, I went to McDonald's, I went to McDonald's recently, and I ordered from one of those monitors, zero robots involved.
Binance CEO: 4 Months in Prison, $4 Billion Fine, and What Comes Next
- ▶ 0:19 Chamath Palihapitiya You worked at McDonald's, I worked at Burger King.
- ▶ 4:24 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) I got my first job at McDonald's at, I think it's 14 or 15. 3 times in the scene
Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
- ▶ 39:24 Dr. Mehmet Oz There's actually 20 times more in South Florida than McDonald's.
Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs
- ▶ 7:38 David Friedberg I mean, they're a combo meal at McDonald's. 2 times in the scene
Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- ▶ 50:27 Jason Calacanis I thought for sure you were gonna say Friedman's The World Is Flat, which was, I think, air cover for all this because you would get the peace dividend if everybody had McDonald's and everybody was watching the same movies.
- ▶ 1:06:31 David Sacks Yeah, but just you think about the highways, that led to, to Holiday Inn, and hotels, and motels, and drive-through windows, and McDonald's, and car culture, and.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on self-driving's future, changing business model, job displacement
- ▶ 10:47 Dara Khosrowshahi Every major food player, McDonald's, has a direct channel, but they have a box, and they want that box to create as much revenue as possible, so they have a direct channel, and they work through our marketplace, DoorDash marketplace, other…
Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance
- ▶ 24:17 Jason Calacanis Do you have, do you have a recollection of a great Sachs story behind the scenes with the president, yourself, maybe going downstairs, getting like a little Mickey D's or something?
Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- ▶ 12:12 Chamath Palihapitiya But this could be McDonald's, Burger King, and Taco Bell.
Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
- ▶ 12:35 Tony Robbins And he said, if you go to McDonald's and you get a, you don't get a living wage, you're not supposed to, it's a first job.
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 24:59 Andrew Ross Sorkin I'm talking about the McDonald's of the world, the Starbucks of the world, the Nikes of the world.
White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
- ▶ 0:18 Jason Calacanis This is in every seven 11, every McDonald's, every McDonald's, every movie theater, it's everywhere.
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 4:33 Travis Kalanick She doesn't have to cook it now and she doesn't, she won't have to cook it and she won't have to go to McDonald's either.
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 6:01 Jason Calacanis Can you take us to the McDonald's table?
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 13:27 Jason Calacanis If you were paying two dollars for a cheeseburger at McDonald's and now it's four dollars, that's what people are going to remember.
- ▶ 31:36 Jason Calacanis Here's the McDonald price increases that I was mentioning before. 2 times in the scene
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
- ▶ 59:13 David Friedberg I, like, I, you know, I think, like, Trump leaning out the window of McDonald's, and it was, I mean, I laughed pretty hard when he was like, someone said to him when they interviewed Trump when he was serving french fries, and he said… 2 times in the scene
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 44:36 Jason Calacanis Was that they are, they are prioritizing mobile orders to punish the people online to get them to the app, uh, because that gets rid of cashiers and McDonald's has no cashiers in a lot of restaurants right now.
- ▶ 1:11:31 Jason Calacanis Let's make a cheaper Happy Meal.
Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- ▶ 37:58 Jason Calacanis I think it's a good point, but I do see McDonald's, Starbucks, and some of those consumer retailers are taking steps right now to right size their businesses and offer five dollar meals or three dollar coffee.
500K Subscriber Livestream! | All-In Podcast
- ▶ 19:39 David Sacks Or McDonald's hamburgers, right?
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- ▶ 51:53 Jason Calacanis But, uh, the way I look at this is the Mickey D economy. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:13 David Sacks I mean, I think the reason why McDonald's is raising prices is because everyone else is raising prices.
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 1:00:03 Chamath Palihapitiya McDonald's is the largest buyer of potatoes, yeah. 2 times in the scene
E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more
- ▶ 58:15 Chamath Palihapitiya As an example, we've tried, you know, we tried to export sugar via McDonald's and Coke, and actually they have domestic brands that they were able to support and prop up, so they have more control of that too.
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 1:12:27 Chamath Palihapitiya He would go for a jog and stop at a McDonald's.
E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- ▶ 56:41 Jason Calacanis Donald's learned this, right? 2 times in the scene
E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- ▶ 51:15 Chamath Palihapitiya But have you been to a McDonald's recently? 4 times in the scene
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:32:10 Jason Calacanis You go to McDonald's now you're ordering on the app, or you're ordering
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 12:32 Graham Allison So everybody has become democracies and market economies, and if they have McDonald's, they can't have wars because people would prefer to get hamburgers than wars.
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- ▶ 1:25:40 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, if you have a deal with McDonald's, McDonald's bids you out to five different people and they pick the cheapest one, right? 2 times in the scene
E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
- ▶ 1:01:35 David Friedberg You know, the 30,000 dollar a year McDonald's burger and chicken nugget eater is probably happy to take a burger and a chicken nugget.
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 1:00:57 Jason Calacanis Beast Burger could beat McDonald's?
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 12:07 Jason Calacanis And for people who don't know the fat, the fast food issue was they want to move to a more European style where instead of unions debating with individual corporations, McDonald's, Burger King, whoever, what they're going to pay their… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:34 David Friedberg The average voter in California probably knows more people that work at McDonald's than are shareholders of McDonald's. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Chamath Palihapitiya Probably in the, you know, for our general future be gainfully employed, but the nature of their job is going to change completely because the economic capitalist incentive of big pharma is going to move towards technology, which is, you…
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 1:37:01 Chamath Palihapitiya No, my point is you could buy a McDonald's franchise for two million or you could buy the company that fixes the people that needed McDonald's for twenty one million. 3 times in the scene
E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 50:22 David Sacks Do you see this, this quote by the McDonald's CEO? 3 times in the scene
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 15:38 Jason Calacanis And Russia has been essentially canceled from the global economy from visa to McDonald's
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 14:13 Jason Calacanis If you look at what this has done for Bitcoin, and you look at what it's done for other cryptocurrencies, this will do more than McDonald's accepting Bitcoin, because this is the first time like a Western democratic state is seizing…
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 43:10 Chamath Palihapitiya Starbucks or you work at McDonald's and you're making 17 to 20 dollars an hour. 2 times in the scene
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 39:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Just this week, McDonald's moved their minimum wage up.
E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- ▶ 37:20 David Friedberg We're seeing people migrate away from low-income jobs, like driving a truck for 10 dollars an hour, or working at McDonald's for eight dollars an hour, and so to fill that gap and avoid the economic collapse that will occur in those… 2 times in the scene
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 12:18 Jason Calacanis And in fairness, though, if you look at minimum wage, and you look at entry level jobs, many of them paid too little historically, these companies like McDonald's, I know it's a free market, but we're paying very little, we're talking…
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 29:11 Chamath Palihapitiya And the reality is it is just meaningfully cheaper to eat at McDonald's than it is to go to whole foods and be able to buy organic food.
E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more
- ▶ 34:23 Chamath Palihapitiya It's like a McDonald's and the, the company that moves to a franchising model and then figures it out, I think will be a huge winner.