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DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 49:23 Jason Calacanis That's only the people who worked for Sam previously and quit who feel that way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:13 David Friedberg And so in this open AI context, Travis, I mean, like, just knowing what you know about AI, is this going to be a competitive advantage for Sam to raise forty billion? 2 times in the scene
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 17:33 David Friedberg Or Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:02 Jason Calacanis And of course, as always, Sam and Elon have been spicy in the replies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:21 Chamath Palihapitiya It was not a commentary on Masa or Larry or Sam.
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 2:36 Jason Calacanis Look, we have Sam Waltman on the livestream. 6 times in the scene
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 46:35 Jason Calacanis They don't want to have to be beholden to open AI and Sam Altman.
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 5:18 Jason Calacanis Is Sam Altman's job security in jeopardy? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman is on the naughty list.
DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- ▶ 57:36 Jason Calacanis All right, here's an update on closed AI flipping, and Sam Altman, super villain Sam Altman, secure in the bank.
- ▶ 1:34:38 Aaron Levie I, you know, I don't think you want to bet against Sam and Greg.
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 6:28 Keith Rabois I remember talking to Sam Altman, 2 times in the scene
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 5:17 Jason Calacanis Maybe there's a long shot that Sam Altman jumps the fence and decides he's gonna take open AI public during this window that people expect to be opening.
Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- ▶ 1:43:06 Mark Cuban And you know, Sam Altman is an investor.
- ▶ 1:59:48 David Sacks Sam said he wasn't going to take compensation. 3 times in the scene
Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
- ▶ 39:16 unnamed speaker Mark Zuckerberg and, uh, Sam Altman are arguably the three leading AI language model, um, leaders. 3 times in the scene
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 20:33 Reid Hoffman And, you know, when, you know, kind of Elon and Sam were starting this and said, look, we need, you know, philanthropic support and we're, we're trying to make sure that there's like open access to AI, which is going to be an instrumental… 3 times in the scene
Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
- ▶ 22:50 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman did a UBI experiment a couple of years ago.
- ▶ 1:18:04 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman has talked about this very publicly.
Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- ▶ 1:01:48 Jason Calacanis For those people who don't know, I think it was Sam Altman who actually did that investment as a Sequoia Scout in the same fund that I did the
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 35:51 Jason Calacanis You don't trust Sam Altman with your, with your iPhone backup.
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 42:51 Jason Calacanis According to report Sam Altman recently discussed this with major shareholders like maybe Microsoft, and it's possible OpenAI will become a for-profit benefit corporation, similar to Anthropic or XAI. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:25 Jason Calacanis Last month he announced he was resigning from OpenAI after a decade with the company, and you remember he was on the board that helped orchestrate Sam Waltman's firing, um, and then he reversed course a few days after and expressed… 5 times in the scene
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- ▶ 0:28 Jason Calacanis Is Sam Altman's job security in jeopardy? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49 Jason Calacanis To recap, if you're living under a rock this week, it came out that OpenAI, specifically Sam, had contacted Scarlett Johansson multiple times about lending her voice for one of OpenAI's chat box. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:24 Jason Calacanis Here's what Sam Altman said. 6 times in the scene
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 7:52 Jason Calacanis Monday, three days after Sam Wise came on all in as a programming note, and we'll go to Freeberg about this. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:23 David Friedberg We've, and I think you may remember, we talked about this briefly with Sam last week, but we're moving away from these very big, bulky models that are released every couple of months or quarters and cost a lot of money to rebuild every…
- ▶ 22:20 Jason Calacanis And then what Sam said on the podcast last week was it seems like whenever they come out with something new, the old stuff becomes free.
Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
- ▶ 52:47 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
- ▶ 1:31 Jason Calacanis After we finished recording last week, Elon sued Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and the open AI organization.
- ▶ 19:02 David Sacks To go back to Freeburg's point about the nonprofit sitting at the top there, remember what created all the problems when Sam briefly got fired as CEO and then came back is they had these directors from the nonprofit world who didn't really… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:56 Jason Calacanis I was able to find the SamaSource example, and they did it very clean, and there was no, like, IP transfer or employees enriching themselves, or, you know, a god king like Sam doing all kinds of deals and enriching himself. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:47 David Sacks Give Sam his equity. 5 times in the scene
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 1:20:05 Jason Calacanis Game that was played by Sam Altman and the allegedly founders of Reddit to wrestle control of Reddit back from their previous corporate owner, Condé Nast. 2 times in the scene
E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
- ▶ 8:16 Jason Calacanis Obviously we saw Sam Altman.
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 2:20 Jason Calacanis And then there was this bizarre Wall Street Journal headline that Sam was gonna raise seven trillion dollars.
E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
- ▶ 26:20 Jason Calacanis Yeah, no, I think, I mean, we, we didn't bring this up because it's broke over the, the, the holiday break, but I think Sam Altman is doing a great job of telling people he wants to do the right thing. 2 times in the scene
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 25:01 David Friedberg And then the strength that Satya showed and the speed at which he acted during the OpenAI weekend debacle, where he set up this whole thing where he got Sam on board and was going to retain all this value that he was extracting from OpenAI…
- ▶ 35:49 David Friedberg The biggest surprise was Sam Altman's ouster and return all in a weekend.
- ▶ 41:08 David Sacks I would have thought that'd be enough to polish it off, but then we had the OpenAI board oust Sam Altman, like we talked about.
- ▶ 43:59 David Friedberg I give it to Sam Altman because I don't think any individual has generated more attention on a private company and its effect on the world and the future. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:26 Jason Calacanis One that you guys gave awards to on all the previous awards, Sam Waltman is all over this year's besties. 2 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 1:42:22 Jason Calacanis Act one, Sam's fired. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:35 Jason Calacanis And maybe the claim that Sam wasn't forthcoming with the board was that he didn't tell them about it. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53:51 David Friedberg Did you see the article this morning on where they started saying all the houses that Sam bought, he bought all these houses. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:03:44 Chamath Palihapitiya I think of what Sam did. 5 times in the scene
E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
- ▶ 1:01:23 David Sacks And you already hear people like Sam Altman and so forth calling for the equivalent of atomic energy commission for AI.
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 1:04:59 Jason Calacanis Altman and Ive have been having brainstorming sessions in Ive's San Francisco studio about what a consumer product centered around OpenAI would look like. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:29 David Sacks Sam apparently 2 times in the scene
All-In Summit: In conversation with Vinod Khosla
- ▶ 26:34 Vinod Khosla But I'm also optimistic, and as, you know, we invest in Sam too, he invested in Helion.
All-In Summit: Nuclear fusion and the potential for energy abundance
- ▶ 1:37 David Friedberg Helion's raised about 2.2 billion dollars since its founding with a recent massive five hundred million dollar funding round led by Sam Altman, who we all know is the CEO of OpenAI and formerly ran Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:10 David Kirtley Um, so I, I want to make sure that just throwing money at a problem, unlimited money at a problem, uh, I was actually just having a conversation with Sam Altman about this, um, doesn't actually always speed it up.
All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
- ▶ 21:02 Bill Gurley And Sam's just getting started. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:36 David Sacks Well, I was gonna say, you know, on, on AI, I, I think that what, um, what was discussed at that hearing that Sam Altman testified at, I think it's an existential threat to Silicon Valley, because 2 times in the scene
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 5:58 Jason Calacanis Was Sam Altman there?
E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- ▶ 6:31 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman was there as well as Gary Marcus, a professor from NYU. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:25 David Friedberg Can I ask a question then, of all three of you, do you guys think that this was Sam's way of pulling up the ladder behind him? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:54 Chamath Palihapitiya Elon and Sam, I'll just use those as the two canonical examples to demonstrate. 3 times in the scene
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 18:40 Jason Calacanis Vice President Harris met with CEOs of Alphabet, Microsoft, OpenAI, so that's Sundar, Satya, and Sam. 4 times in the scene
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 41:01 Jason Calacanis Paradoxically, I believe Sam Altman has a major investment in Reddit.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 44:31 David Sacks Sam Altman may not look like Ivan Drago, but, but this, this is one shrewd character. 5 times in the scene
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 1:16:28 David Friedberg And he actually had a talk that he did that was published on YouTube, a year later, where he said he raised twenty million dollars from Sam Altman and Daniel Ek and a bunch of other investors.
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 1:26:11 Jason Calacanis I mean, we gotta get Sam. 2 times in the scene
E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
- ▶ 1:06:42 Jason Calacanis They only released it when Sam Altman, in his brilliance, got Microsoft to integrate this immediately and see it as a competitive advantage.
- ▶ 1:21:12 Jason Calacanis Nicely done, Sam. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:03 Jason Calacanis I, I would like to congratulate Sam Altman on the greatest. 2 times in the scene
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 40:55 Jason Calacanis The great part about this Chamath is that Bing gave ten billion to our friend Sam and ChatGPT to invest in.
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 40:16 David Friedberg And they, you know, kind of went on, and the whole thing about Sam Gregg, Elon Reed, Jessica, Peter Thiel, AWS, YC are all donating to support OpenAI.
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 25:12 David Friedberg And I think that Sam Altman is a very smart and shrewd investor as well.
- ▶ 1:30:49 David Friedberg Cause I think that's like the, the way that AI works and we should probably bring someone like Sam on to talk about it. 6 times in the scene
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 29:25 Jason Calacanis This is an existential threat like we have not seen and our friend Sam Altman has a line chat GPT slash open AI with Microsoft.
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 1:27:50 Jason Calacanis Of course, Chris Dixon wins much more loathsome than Sam Altman.
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 1:23:06 Jason Calacanis Reed Hastings over at Netflix, Moritz over at Sequoia, Sam Altman over at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 1:29:35 David Sacks Um, so thanks to the OpenAI team and Sam Altman for giving us access to DALI, D-A-L-L dash E,
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 1:11:30 David Friedberg Um, we all know Sam Altman.
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- ▶ 1:03:27 Jason Calacanis I mean, to your point, uh, Freeberg, I think Sam Altman, uh, led this, the fusion energy startup helium, like, five hundred million dollar round.
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