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GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
- ▶ 43:07 Chamath Palihapitiya We all did our version of that when we were on the- Peter Thiel universe, PayPal mafia, there's all versions of it.
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 0:35 Jason Calacanis He's a scientist who works with Peter Thiel from Harvard, has done some really-
Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
- ▶ 29:14 Eric Weinstein I know Jim O'Neill very well from the Peter Thiel universe coming in at NSF Jay Bhattacharya, absolute gem.
- ▶ 1:23:32 Eric Weinstein When I took a job with Peter Thiel, let's imagine that there are only about a 125 people I can speak to about my work. 2 times in the scene
Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
- ▶ 40:07 David Sacks Peter Thiel once said that monopolies pretend to be commodities and commodities pretend to be monopolies. 2 times in the scene
The IPO Comeback: Why Tech Giants Are Finally Going Public | All-In Liquidity IPO Panel
- ▶ 25:07 Will Marshall Um, Draper Fisher-Jervison was one of the earliest, Capricorn, um, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, then we got, uh, Uri Milner's, DST, those sort of guys.
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 4:55 Jason Calacanis I think on, uh, maybe what Peter Thiel does with his fellowship.
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 9:19 David Sacks They really go after Peter Thiel. 3 times in the scene
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 12:18 Satya Nadella It's sometimes we kind of overthink somehow that every customer wants the same thing from all of the competitors, and finding that out, right, it's kind of a different take on the Peter Thiel thing, which is you've got to avoid competition…
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 7:48 David Friedberg Peter Thiel said this best. 2 times in the scene
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- ▶ 9:23 Jason Calacanis And he was also giving tax advice to the Microsoft people, to Peter Thiel. 3 times in the scene
Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- ▶ 24:19 Chamath Palihapitiya I'm sort of copying Peter Thiel here, but 2 times in the scene
Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- ▶ 1:08:11 Chamath Palihapitiya Peter Thiel predicted this in 2020. 5 times in the scene
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- ▶ 20:04 David Friedberg So one of my favorite things that Peter Thiel says is, uh, you know, when you make it, when an acquisition like this happens,
The College Crisis: Heads of Dartmouth & Berkeley Debate the Decline of US Universities
- ▶ 18:37 David Sacks Um, you know, Peter Thiel and I wrote an article for Stanford Magazine back in, I think it was 1995, so 30 years ago, called The Case Against Affirmative Action.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 39:06 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, Peter Thiel has a very funny saying about this, which is anytime you have a, a concept that you want to fund that has the word science after it, it's not a science.
Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- ▶ 1:29:13 Chamath Palihapitiya Or Peter. 2 times in the scene
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 39:57 Jason Calacanis You know, I think if we're, if we look at this as the first year that tech really got actively involved in politics, obviously Peter Thiel has been at this for a little bit longer in his support of JD Vance, the vice president. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:32 Jason Calacanis And that's what Peter Thiel got right. 3 times in the scene
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 18:44 David Sacks Remember when he back in 2016 to try to drive Peter Thiel off of the board of Facebook for supporting Trump.
Antonio Gracias: DOGE updates, Voter fraud, Finding 'Big Balls' | All-In Live from Miami
- ▶ 14:41 David Sacks By the way, this is a, this is a Peter Thiel.
JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- ▶ 1:47:45 Naval Ravikant You know, Peter Thiel, ironically, he's an investor, but he's inspirational that way, too, because he's like, yeah, the future just doesn't just happen. 2 times in the scene
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 9:36 Chamath Palihapitiya Peter Thiel's house. 4 times in the scene
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 4:04 Chamath Palihapitiya I thought Peter's party was great. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:06 Mark Pincus I reconnected, yeah, with a bunch of tech friends, with Peter Thiel. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:42 Mark Pincus Peter Thiel's party. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:41 Jason Calacanis I, you know, they were having this party, Peter Thiel's party, and I guess Sax and Jackie were the co-hosts, I believe, and I- I don't know if that party was, I thought that party was off the record.
- ▶ 1:51:09 Jason Calacanis Imagine you're Peter Chill right now at home, and you're just like, half court shot, boom.
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
- ▶ 38:24 Jason Calacanis And you can still come to Peter Thiel's party.
Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- ▶ 34:06 Chamath Palihapitiya Peter Thiel had an event, or he does his thing, and we had a breakfast, and, ah, Ted was surrounded by sort of, you know, a handful of us who were speaking to him, and then what I would say is like, every traditional Democrat from Central…
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 4:55 Mark Pincus And then we were lucky enough to invest along with Peter in the first round of Facebook.
- ▶ 57:29 Chamath Palihapitiya I've come to, I've gone to Peter's office there.
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 25:47 Jason Calacanis All right, I picked the PayPal mafia, yourself included, of course, Sax, but Peter Thiel, JD, and Elon, obviously.
- ▶ 48:53 Jason Calacanis And so I'm gonna go with, uh, Peter, I'm just taking a guess, an educated one. 3 times in the scene
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 3:17 Jason Calacanis Saks and Peter Thiel went on to do PayPal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:57 Jason Calacanis Do you play chess with Peter Thiel while that discussion's going on?
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 40:55 Jason Calacanis Peter Thiel
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 1:09:31 David Sacks But there was a line from the 2016 election about Trump that I think was attributed to Peter Thiel, which is very important, which is that Trump should be taken seriously, but not literally.
2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!
- ▶ 53:04 Jason Calacanis With Peter Thiel.
Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 34:00 Jason Calacanis I think he's playing chess with Teal and JD Vance is watching them play chess.
- ▶ 51:42 Jason Calacanis And I was talking to Reid Hoffman, uh, and you and Peter Thiel in the Illuminati meeting, and they voted a 190 to two to replace Lena Kahn in the Illuminati meeting.
- ▶ 55:04 Chamath Palihapitiya Peter Thiel did this, and he gave back quite a large piece of his fund a couple of years ago, and then CRV just did it.
Flying Cars Have Arrived! eVTOL Panel: Archer, Joby, Wisk | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 4:43 Brian Yutko Peter Thiel reminded us yesterday that flying cars are the peak of the hardware revolution that never quite happened. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:44 Brian Yutko So part of the challenge is that, is that in aviation, partially because of what Peter Thiel said yesterday, you know, there's sort of a generation of,
- ▶ 44:49 unnamed speaker I hope Peter Thiel had it wrong, and we are going to get flying cars in the next couple of years.
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 1:11:39 Chamath Palihapitiya The second thought, which is much more narrow, Peter Thiel has that famous saying where if you have to put the word science behind it, it's not really a thing.
Michael Ovitz | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 11:50 Michael Ovitz Uh, I'm still involved with them, 25 years later, and, uh, Mark basically introduced me to everyone up in the Valley, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, everybody that he dealt with, and one of the guys he introduced me to was… 7 times in the scene
Megyn Kelly | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 0:52 Jason Calacanis Did you get to hear Peter Thiel, Megan? 4 times in the scene
Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 38:05 David Sacks Shifting gears to AI, uh, Peter was here earlier and he was talking about how so far the only company to really make money off AI is NVIDIA with the chips. 2 times in the scene
JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 2:29 Jason Calacanis What about Peter Thiel? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:09 David Sacks There was some truth to it in the 19 nineties, uh, by 2002 or 2003, when Peter Thiel created founders fund, he called it that to emphasize that
- ▶ 48:53 David Sacks Right, and just, I, I think the turning point was when Peter started Founders Fund, but that was over 20 years ago. 2 times in the scene
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 2:38 Reid Hoffman Yeah, I met, um, David, uh, because Peter had known him from Stanford and hired him in, um, and, you know, David, uh, very quickly, because he, you know, uh, has a, he has a strong learning curve as he plays these things, kind of got the… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:16 Jason Calacanis You funded, uh, like Peter Thiel funded the Gawker case, uh, the E.
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 3:01 David Sacks Well, it's where PayPal got its first funding round, where John Malloy from Nokia Ventures beamed the money to Peter and Max at Bucks.
Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
- ▶ 11:49 David Friedberg Peter Thiel made the comment once, which I think is totally right.
The Besties Take Napa | All-In Special
- ▶ 19:20 David Sacks The, the best advice, career advice I got was from Peter Thiel, who advised me not to go to law school, and unfortunately, I didn't listen to him.
Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- ▶ 16:49 David Sacks Just days before the shooting, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman had an exchange at Allen and company that was publicly reported. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:54 Jason Calacanis Yeah, he worked at Peter Thiel's Myth for Capital and Steve Case's Revolution. 2 times in the scene
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 1:05:00 Chamath Palihapitiya So to your point, I, I just, I just think that when you look globally, there's a really interesting quote from Peter Thiel that actually is, he was, he made this comment, which is, if you look at the 10 Commandments, he's like, the first… 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
- ▶ 1:13:35 Chamath Palihapitiya Did you guys see Peter Thiel? 2 times in the scene
E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- ▶ 1:25:24 David Sacks Someone tweeted like, hey, did you know that like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Max Lovechin and David Sachs produced this movie
E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- ▶ 3:36 Jason Calacanis Teal just bought one.
- ▶ 38:40 Chamath Palihapitiya If you're, if you're, if you, if you were not optimized for fees, you would do what Peter Thiel did and just have the fund and return the money. 2 times in the scene
E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- ▶ 41:27 Jason Calacanis This is what Peter Thiel said, like, you know, his, his great quote about him, like, just look at his actions, not at what he says.
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 54:57 David Sacks I mean, this is kind of like, like Peter Thiel, right?
E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
- ▶ 54:48 David Friedberg And I think we've heard Peter Thiel and others speak a lot about how the US has lost our appetite for risk.
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 1:10:59 Jason Calacanis Did just, you and Peter Thiel talk about this over chess or something?
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- ▶ 1:22:45 Jason Calacanis Is it Peter Thiel?
E140: LK-99, Sclerotic establishments, Fitch downgrades US debt, Trump indicted... again
- ▶ 27:56 David Sacks And one of Peter Thiel's critiques is that we've had tremendous innovation in software, but in every other aspect of the economy, there's been little to no innovation planes, for example, are getting slower, not faster. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:23 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, Peter is right. 2 times in the scene
E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more
- ▶ 1:16:23 Jason Calacanis Peter, Peter Thiel and I are. 2 times in the scene
E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- ▶ 3:03 David Sacks The thing about David Sachs, if he wasn't rich, everyone would dismiss him as being both stupid and boring, and the secret to his wealth is just follow Peter Thiel around since college.
- ▶ 1:07:22 Jason Calacanis Well, let's be honest though, the Terminator mode for you to be able to be present with your family and friends, but be playing chess with Peter Thiel on those glasses. 4 times in the scene
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 46:32 David Sacks Something that Peter Thiel once said about, you know, founders being Asperger's, where he flipped it on his head and said, what is it about our society that talks founders out of all of their contrarian ideas, unless they are a little bit…
- ▶ 52:23 David Friedberg He did this to Peter Thiel, and Peter Thiel has spoken about this publicly, so I'm not saying anything 3 times in the scene
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 55:23 Jason Calacanis The second thing is, according to Axios, Peter Thiel led this charge and he is the contrarian's contrarian. 3 times in the scene
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 9:58 Jason Calacanis I mean, the person who did the worst there was Peter Thiel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:27 David Friedberg So Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, a lot of these guys funded 2 times in the scene
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 52:44 Jason Calacanis This is the Peter Thiel award. 2 times in the scene
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- ▶ 6:47 Jason Calacanis But some of the Trump back candidates did win some of the, um, uh, Peter Thiel collection, JD Vance won.
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- ▶ 58:17 Chamath Palihapitiya It's the Peter Thiel wave.
- ▶ 1:10:41 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, so far Peter Thiel made the better trade. 3 times in the scene
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 11:27 Jason Calacanis Well, Sax, you were the COO of PayPal with Elon and Ruloff and TL and everybody in that crew over 20 years ago, uh, and verified you understand pretty well because you yourself have been brigadooned of late
- ▶ 1:13:45 David Sacks Well, look, they got Elon and Peter up there too. 3 times in the scene
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- ▶ 38:51 Chamath Palihapitiya Peter Thiel has a very funny observation, not funny, but, you know, uh, observation, which is
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 1:06:09 Chamath Palihapitiya I got introduced by teal, like in 2011 or 12.
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 1:30:24 Chamath Palihapitiya Like thanking everybody and thanking Helmuth in the same line in which I, I, I'm like, I thank Peter Thiel and I thank Joe Lacob.
E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
- ▶ 14:45 David Friedberg Peter Thiel always used these terms, go capture the market.
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 1:52 David Friedberg Getting beat up, uh, with the Peter Thiel connection being... 6 times in the scene
E86: Macro outlook: jobs, housing, inflation + Dutch farmers protests & EU climate missteps
- ▶ 1:19:59 David Sacks It was like, it was Phil, Peter Thiel, and like one other, oh, and then.
#AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
- ▶ 4:03 Jason Calacanis He perfected the flywheel with his boy Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 14:33 Jason Calacanis This is not like you've become some, like, insane, crazy, right-wing, like, teal sacks insanity.
#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
- ▶ 23:51 David Sacks Peter recruited his friends who he had gone to college with at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
#AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022
- ▶ 57:41 Keith Rabois Peter's views.
- ▶ 1:03:35 Keith Rabois It is one of the theses that, you know, Peter started the fund with, which is these terms are way overrated.
- ▶ 1:05:10 Keith Rabois It's easier for Peter to say this.
E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein
- ▶ 5:48 Tom Goldstein So, you know, in ordinary politics, we do think of, um, conservatism and then kind of more libertarianism, a kind of Peter Thiel,
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