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Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats Aug 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter Jun 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12:33 Gavin Baker And something that drives me crazy is people picture these Pentagon sized data centers.

World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal Jun 19, 2026 · 1 mention

War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Mar 6, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 41:23 Jason Calacanis The Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that it's been deemed a supply chain risk. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:06:58 Jason Calacanis Dario says the real reason the Pentagon and Trump admin do not like us is that we haven't donated to Trump.

All-In's 2026 Predictions Jan 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private Feb 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:42 Jason Calacanis Washington Post is reporting that in between doing sets of 47 pushups, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked senior leadership at the Pentagon to develop a plan to cut eight percent from the defense budget each of the next five years.

2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties! Nov 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:35:32 Steve Bannon Look, I think the look, I come out of the military as a naval officer for eight years, served four years at sea and four years in the Pentagon is the aid to the chief naval operations.

OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war Sep 27, 2024 · 1 mention

Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala Sep 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:24 David Sacks 60 Minutes used to do these segments on waste, fraud, and abuse at the Pentagon, different parts of the government.

Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit Sep 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:08 John Mearsheimer Who become established in positions in the Pentagon, the State Department, the Intelligence Community, you name it.

Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 10, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 15:43 Elon Musk And just to give you a sense of size, the Tesla Gigafactory in China is three times the size of the Pentagon. 4 times in the scene

Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction? May 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:23 Chamath Palihapitiya What he found, and he said this after when he left, was there were people on the top floor of the CIA building, the seventh floor of the Pentagon, that fundamentally believed that it wasn't the Democrats nor the Republicans that ran the…

E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more Apr 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:13:17 Chamath Palihapitiya Because in order to even be legitimately considered for some kind of like armed unmanned product, you have to be deep inside of the bowels of the DoD and Pentagon and have been working with them for years to even be taken seriously.

E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack Feb 2, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:28:12 David Sacks And I think that because of the Ukraine war, the Pentagon must now realize the urgency of being able to mass produce effective drones, as well as create effective drone air defense. 2 times in the scene

E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more Jan 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:37 David Sacks Admiral Kirby, who's the Pentagon spokesperson, even said that the other day, which was a pretty amazing admission.

In conversation with Dean Phillips Nov 17, 2023 · 1 mention

All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison Sep 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:03 Graham Allison Ah, we don't care, call that their sphere of influence, but if you look and see what happens in the area, we don't operate our ships the way we did when I was in the Pentagon in the Clinton administration.

In conversation with Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 12:30 Chris Christie And the only place I really wouldn't look is on the military side at this point, because I think you've got to increase efficiency and effectiveness at the Pentagon
  • ▶ 36:57 David Sacks I think you have an interesting point there actually, which is to me, one of the biggest surprises of this war is that we spend eight hundred and seventy seven billion on the Pentagon and that we could run out of ammo. 7 times in the scene

E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth Jul 14, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:29 David Sacks The manufacturing of these artillery shells is going to take us, according to the Pentagon, they started the war at 14,000 shells being produced a month, mainly for training purposes.

E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health Jul 9, 2023 · 3 mentions

E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more Jun 24, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:22 David Sacks We spent eight hundred billion a year plus on the Pentagon and our national defense.

E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more May 26, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 38:06 Jon Stewart When I see a State Department get a certain amount of money and a military budget be 10 times that, and I see a struggle within government to get people, like, more basic services, I mean, we got out of 20 years of war and the Pentagon got… 3 times in the scene

In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. May 5, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:07 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Russians are killing Ukrainians, depending on who you believe, at a ratio of five to one to eight to one, which was the seven to one in the, in the recently, recently leaked, the whistleblower leaked Pentagon documents, and the…
  • ▶ 1:48:26 David Sacks You know, all these generals, when they retire from the Pentagon, they go right onto the boards of these defense contractors.

E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more Apr 28, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:09:28 David Sacks These new Pentagon papers that were leaked show that the Ukrainian casualties are at least five times greater than they've been publicly admitting.

E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more Oct 29, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:25:54 David Sacks And the US policy establishment in the Pentagon look at the rise of China, and they're like, what have we done?

E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more Aug 5, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:43 David Sacks What the administration, what Biden, and what the Pentagon told her to do, because she wanted to make some sort of valedictory tour to Taiwan.

#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril Jun 23, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:50 Palmer Luckey In the 19 fifties alone, we built the Pentagon and, well, sorry, I, I, I, I, I, I have an error in my notes. 2 times in the scene

#AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2022 · 1 mention

#AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks May 28, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:32 Glenn Greenwald That it needs to move much closer to these, this politics that says, you know, we're going to encourage, um, corporate America, we're going to embrace the Pentagon, and all of that, and it radically changed the, the Democratic Party into…

Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more May 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:27 Elon Musk Um, and it's, it's three times the size of the Pentagon to give you a sense of scale. 2 times in the scene

E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more Sep 18, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:46 David Sacks By the way, this thing that just came from the Pentagon is a total Friday news drop.

E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap! Aug 28, 2021 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:54 David Sacks It's just this thing that's been happening in the background, but all along we've been assured by the Pentagon.
  • ▶ 26:59 David Sacks The Pentagon was telling us the whole time, I mean, while this guy Sopko, the cigar, you know, the special inspector general was telling us the truth of what was happening. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:10:39 David Sacks You got defense contractors in Afghanistan who are just looting, looting the Pentagon and the federal budget because it's in their interest.

E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more Apr 23, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:56 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, the seven hundred billion dollar budget in the Pentagon, does anybody have any idea what the ROI is on that or even a way to measure it?
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