Monsanto, every mention
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every year anyone David Friedberg 25Chamath Palihapitiya 9Jason Calacanis 5Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 3Bill Maris 1Alexandra Botez 1Adam Carolla 1
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Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage
- ▶ 12:14 Bill Maris A billion dollar exit to Monsanto.
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- ▶ 1:06:55 Jason Calacanis Oh, Monsanto.
Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- ▶ 58:46 Adam Carolla Well, I mean, we always need a villain, and so it's easy when it's World War II and we can just hate Nazis, you know, and it's pretty straightforward, and then at a certain point, it gets a little more complex, you know, when it's Vietnam…
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 15:57 David Friedberg In, uh, 2000 five, 2006, Monsanto, which was a seed company that doesn't exist anymore, launched in India, cotton seed, seed for cotton farmers that basically had a trait in it that would prevent worms from eating the cotton. 4 times in the scene
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 56:37 Alexandra Botez Friedberg, thank you for making the world a better place for Monsanto shareholders.
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 20:44 David Friedberg I even saw this a lot at Monsanto.
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 1:43:16 Jason Calacanis So, Freeberg, when you hear Bobby's, uh, position here as a scientist who sold a company to Monsanto, climate.com, and who's working on food today, what rings true about what Bobby's saying, and what do you disagree with? 3 times in the scene
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 50:30 Chamath Palihapitiya Tell us about the, um, the patents and how important patents play a role in this, because isn't it like, like one of Monsanto's big things, like they just go and sue everybody into the ground or whatever?
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 44:56 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Smithfield, um, Monsanto, um, Bo Pilgrim, John Tyson, EPA is right. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:24 David Friedberg By the way, I was on the executive team at Monsanto for a couple years, so, you know, I, one, one thing I will say is I sat on the, at the table facing the EPA and the USDA and certainly didn't feel like a very cozy relationship in, 4 times in the scene
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 1:25:02 David Friedberg When I was at Monsanto, you know, we had all this IP licensing deals we do or new products would come to market.
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 17:04 David Friedberg And once you've got value shareholders, I mean, I've been to these institutional meetings, when I was on the exec team at Monsanto, and you know, they wanted dividends, and they wanted stock buybacks.
- ▶ 59:59 David Friedberg So that's a good example.
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 26:15 David Friedberg Yeah, GMO technology, as a former Monsanto executives, you can call me a Monsanto shill here. 3 times in the scene
E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- ▶ 1:28:32 David Friedberg You know, when I was an executive at Monsanto, it was really nice to have that private jet that would come out and take me places.
E39: West coast super drought & climate crisis, Nuclear virtue signaling, chaos in SF & more
- ▶ 38:20 David Friedberg And they even had a ride from Monsanto where you would go into the micro world and look at plastics and stuff.
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 22:23 David Friedberg People could be influenced in a way that doesn't have grounding or rooting in fact and reality is when I sold my company to Monsanto in 2013. 6 times in the scene
E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
- ▶ 38:28 David Friedberg I found out this, so climate, just for the audience, my company I started and ran was acquired by Monsanto in 2013, which is a big seed company, a lot of people know it for other things.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 7:04 Jason Calacanis He created climate.com and, uh, sold it to, uh, Monsanto.
- ▶ 8:02 Chamath Palihapitiya I want to talk about, um, David, you sold Climate to Monsanto for a billion dollars back in the day when it was shocking to people, that amount of money. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:30 David Friedberg Um, you know, when I was at Monsanto, we were, we bid for the largest ag chemicals company in the world based out of Switzerland.