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The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next
- ▶ 28:23 Jason Calacanis I mean, literally in the NBA, there's a wingspan as a concept, and people with a wide wingspan, longer arms than the average person, get paid 20% more for having that extra two or three inches of wingspan.
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
- ▶ 37:03 Jason Calacanis And the NBA, is it, is it peaked? 3 times in the scene
Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?!
- ▶ 3:05 Nate Silver I had the Knicks to win the Eastern Conference finals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:18 Nate Silver They wound up winning by, like, 60 points or something totally absurd, or held the nets of one of the lowest scores in the modern NBA era, and, like, that team from there, they, by the way, they won the NBA Cup. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:18 Nate Silver They wound up winning by, like, 60 points or something totally absurd, or held the nets of one of the lowest scores in the modern NBA era, and, like, that team from there, they, by the way, they won the NBA Cup.
- ▶ 35:13 Nate Silver Yeah, look, I, by most definitions, am an elite, as are you guys who can afford tickets to game three of the first NBA finals game in New York and whatever, 25 years, and you're probably an elite.
Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- ▶ 17:37 Chamath Palihapitiya 10, 20, thirty million dollars a year are the NBA salaries now.
AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment
- ▶ 4:53 Ari Emanuel People consume stuff now on the streamers, and so, and I do, I don't believe that traditional business is going away for a long time, because a lot of us sports guys have, the NFL, the NBA, has still sold stuff there, plus also sold it to…
- ▶ 23:37 Jason Calacanis The NBA has done an exceptional job.
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- ▶ 15:58 Jason Calacanis Huge scandal in the NBA. 3 times in the scene
Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
- ▶ 3:33 Chamath Palihapitiya And what about the NBA?
- ▶ 4:29 Chamath Palihapitiya Or just generally the NBA product, actually. 3 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- ▶ 0:13 unnamed speaker The Dallas Mavericks are NBA champions.
- ▶ 1:51 Mark Cuban Yeah, I mean, when I did the deal, the presumption was that I would still be running basketball, and we tried to put it in the contract, but the NBA said, the governor is the governor, and they make all final decisions, and then, you know,
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 4:09 Jason Calacanis So NBA, true crime, Ben and us, but writing a book is a net loser in terms of your productivity and time when compared to doing your daily show and all the other things that daily wire does.
Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller
- ▶ 1:01:54 Chamath Palihapitiya It used to be NBA players signing three hundred million dollar contracts.
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 1:11:48 Chamath Palihapitiya You have Meta giving individual human beings, 300 to five hundred million dollar packages, like their NBA first team all-stars.
Nico Rosberg on the Booming Business of F1 | All-In Live from Miami
- ▶ 15:06 David Friedberg But there's also these conversations about basketball, the NBA. 3 times in the scene
Antonio Gracias: DOGE updates, Voter fraud, Finding 'Big Balls' | All-In Live from Miami
- ▶ 0:07 Antonio Gracias So if Twitter was like the JV League, this is like the NBA.
- ▶ 2:30 Antonio Gracias Uh, so if Twitter was like the, the JV league, this is like the NBA.
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 10:14 Jason Calacanis Uh, maybe the Super Bowl, maybe NBA Finals.
All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
- ▶ 39:07 Jason Calacanis It kind of takes out the spontaneity of what, you know, if you want that NBA content, I, I watched this Knicks thing, Knicks Fan TV.
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 33:45 Chamath Palihapitiya And the NBA was the canary in the coal mine that there was a viewership problem in professional sports. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:56 Chamath Palihapitiya I think it was from the Warriors or it's from the NBA.
- ▶ 37:23 Gavin Baker The NBA has been terribly managed. 5 times in the scene
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 1:06:18 Chamath Palihapitiya Uh, I think it was an incredible moment, and I think LeBron deserved it for everything he's done for the NBA.
Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- ▶ 1:31:59 Mark Cuban One, when I first bought in in 2000, I, I was the tech guy in the NBA. 4 times in the scene
Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 43:53 Dave Portnoy They're also like, in some bizarre world, the last to embrace, like, highlights in the internet where the NBA was always the leader and forefront, I think it shows. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:55 Jason Calacanis Yeah, on the Masters, on Scottie, uh, 1.1 million on the Celtics and NBA Finals, million dollars on Michigan over Alabama in the Rose Bowl, half a million on the Chiefs.
- ▶ 53:33 Dave Portnoy The number one game on NBA TV has been a WNBA game.
In conversation with President Trump
- ▶ 1:08:18 Jason Calacanis Like, maybe you could come to the West and see a movie premiere or come to the NBA finals as opposed to start lobbying
Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
- ▶ 20:42 Chamath Palihapitiya These are not people that are contracted players in the NBA or are part of a union, ok, where you have guaranteed employment through some mechanism or some arbitration process to even be let go.
- ▶ 1:13:04 Jason Calacanis The NBA banned a 24 year old player, Jonte Porter, for life after a scandal. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:10 Jason Calacanis The NBA will generate one hundred sixty seven million from betting this season up 11% year over year.
- ▶ 1:22:09 Chamath Palihapitiya When I got admitted to the ownership group in the NBA, I stopped, and I probably made three bets since then, both, all three were like on the Super Bowl.
E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- ▶ 33:47 Jason Calacanis Oh, these are, oh, it's a super clip of all the most dunks in the NBA last year.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 7:40 David Friedberg We, we had, it seemed like three decades of incredible collaboration, uh, with China, and the West, and America specifically, and just look at what happened with the iPhone and the number of people who, who, um, rose out of poverty, um, in…
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- ▶ 1:37 Jason Calacanis He's like an NBA player.
- ▶ 1:27:24 Jason Calacanis Sports wagering has been accepted by the NBA, ESPN, TV shows, everything it's been incorporated into. 2 times in the scene
E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more
- ▶ 33:57 Chamath Palihapitiya Do you really think, for example, let's pick NBA basketball. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:55 Chamath Palihapitiya Fifteen billion dollars of equity in the NBA. 2 times in the scene
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 49:52 Jason Calacanis So this would be the same as like the NBA on ABC, ESPN, or TNT, and TNT or 10 times in the scene
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 12:34 Chamath Palihapitiya You expect the best player in the NBA to be elite, right? 2 times in the scene
E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
- ▶ 36:57 Jason Calacanis And what happened in the eighties and nineties, when the NBA started playing exhibition games around the world was more people around the world started playing basketball.
E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
- ▶ 59:22 Jason Calacanis To put that in context, I mean, you're talking what an elite NBA player gets from Nike.
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 11:17 Jason Calacanis It would be like taking the NBA and getting rid of the bottom, you know, 10 teams and just telling the best players there.
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 1:15:58 Jason Calacanis This actually happened in the NBA. 2 times in the scene
E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- ▶ 54:06 Chamath Palihapitiya You could take any NBA player and put them on a high school basketball team and they would be the, you know, college player of the year, any single one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:47 Brad Gerstner You know, there are some of those, uh, younger folks who are going to turn out to be all stars and they're just like in the NBA and they're going to be some that, you know, prove to be right in the beta.
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 1:10:22 Jason Calacanis It's like somebody who's the coach of 15 NBA, uh, teams, and you're like the coach of one. 2 times in the scene
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 8:27 David Sacks You've got the NBA denouncing him, issuing a statement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:55 David Sacks Maybe we should be boycotting the NBA.
- ▶ 19:04 Jason Calacanis So it's easier for us to say, oh, the NBA, oh, Apple,
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 55:32 Jason Calacanis And the fact that the NBA
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 43:15 Jason Calacanis In New York City and in the UK, amongst other places, the NBA and the NFL are seeing surges. 3 times in the scene
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 52:53 Jason Calacanis And I don't know if you're watching and it's cancer in the NBA.
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 1:06:54 Jason Calacanis You, if you look at what happened in the NBA, they had this developmental league, which they didn't kind of run, then became the G League.
- ▶ 1:06:54 Jason Calacanis You, if you look at what happened in the NBA, they had this developmental league, which they didn't kind of run, then became the G League. 2 times in the scene
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 53:43 Jason Calacanis Going three X, three X, back to back, that's like winning two, you know, NBA championships or being in the finals.
E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- ▶ 1:22:16 Jason Calacanis NBA is a private company.
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 37:20 Jason Calacanis Well, you can't comment on this, maybe because you're an owner on the team, but a number of NBA players, high profile ones, in fact, in New York and California, where you're not allowed in the arena, if you're not vaccinated, are now… 4 times in the scene
E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
- ▶ 1:33:16 David Sacks If you were in like the NBA or something, it's like, can we make a championship run? 2 times in the scene
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 1:22:01 Chamath Palihapitiya A handful of NBA players, and I don't, I don't think you remember this conversation or maybe you do. 2 times in the scene
E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
- ▶ 36:46 David Sacks Why did, why did the NBA shut down Darryl Morey?
- ▶ 45:12 Jason Calacanis Apple, the NBA and Disney do not want to decouple. 2 times in the scene
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 52:46 Jason Calacanis Uh, I don't know if you guys saw, but, uh, the point guard, Chris Paul, uh, who is having an incredibly winning season in the NBA.
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 40:12 Jason Calacanis Friedberg, tell us about the science of NBA games and large gatherings in the age of vaccination.
E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- ▶ 29:44 Chamath Palihapitiya Would you, would it be preposterous to say, you know what, you don't have a right to go to the NBA and make money for your family.
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 22:08 Jason Calacanis Or is that just not even possible as we've seen with the NBA?
E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
- ▶ 35:15 Jason Calacanis Are you in a, are you in a, uh, coronavirus, COVID, quarantine, somewhere in an NBA bubble? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:06 Jason Calacanis We were thinking about what to talk to you about, uh, coming on the pod, and we have a series of questions just about being an NBA player and what you've learned and how good you've become. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:21 David Friedberg Hey, Draymond, are, are, are, are other players in the NBA struggling right now? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:40 Draymond Green You're killing your, and when I say players, I'm not just talking about NBA players.
- ▶ 51:44 Jason Calacanis Seems like in the NBA, we went from the players saying, listen, I don't want to touch that.
- ▶ 1:01:59 Jason Calacanis oh Draymond, like maybe a little evolution here of your thinking about maybe the third act and the second half of your MBA career on the court. 2 times in the scene
E16: Reflecting on the riots at the US Capitol, plus: Georgia runoffs, vaccine distribution & more
- ▶ 55:01 Jason Calacanis And she was writing letters to the NBA, WNBA, to not allow the players to, to be vocal about Black Lives Matter with the, you know, after the killing of, um, the murder of George Floyd.
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 19:13 Jason Calacanis Obviously, Amazon did a great job, um, because of the pandemic, uh, and then just as an oddball out there, I just thought Adam Silver and the NBA bubble was an incredibly bold project that was executed so well and was such a delightful… 2 times in the scene
E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- ▶ 1:03:39 Jason Calacanis Yeah, when they suspended Draymond, when the National LeBron Association suspended Draymond in that series.
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 22:10 Jason Calacanis All NBA arenas open with no distancing.
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 27:34 David Sacks And so they, they know how to use, as we saw with the NBA and the whole, um, the Daryl Morey thing, um, you know, they know how to use their market access.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 28:30 Jason Calacanis And the NBA and TikTok being cultural ramifications of that, which are a difference.
- ▶ 40:50 Jason Calacanis In that, I believe this is an ideological war, and if you, you can't diminish what's happening in Hollywood, TikTok, um, and the NBA and other sports, where China is explicitly saying, if you put a villain in our, in a movie, if you talk…
E4: Politicizing the pandemic, Police reform, Twitter vs Facebook with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 8:03 Chamath Palihapitiya Yeah, I, I actually just bought it a few weeks ago, and I've been using it to monitor my sleep, but the, uh, there was an article that said that, you know, I think that the, all the NBA players are going to be given these aura rings as…
E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 16:49 David Friedberg And then, you know, we saw all of this other stuff happen with Korea, and the Princess cruise ship, and the NBA players.
E1: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, VC & Public Markets with David Friedberg
- ▶ 7:37 David Friedberg The NBA players have now been tested, and out of seven players on five teams, so out of seven players on those five teams that have tested positive, it seems like none of them are having any symptoms. 4 times in the scene
E0: COVID-19 Political, Economic & Social Ramifications featuring David Friedberg
- ▶ 2:45 Jason Calacanis They, uh, canceled the NBA, and I think that is the definitive tipping point of when it hit public consciousness that this is no joke, and it was really kind of dramatic, and obviously you're a part owner of the Warriors, um, and so it's,…
- ▶ 23:59 Jason Calacanis We have every Apple store closed, the NBA on hiatus, obviously, as we discussed, and, uh, supposedly a bunch of tasks are going to be done in the coming weeks.
- ▶ 44:50 Jason Calacanis We sit here in America with the NBA and Tom Hanks with the things that made people finally pay attention to this. 3 times in the scene