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AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse Sep 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:47 David Sacks You also have the fact that this whole resignation tweet storm was amplified by these groups who were funded by Jan Talon and Dustin Moskowitz, who co-led the Series A of Anthropic along with Sam Bankman-Fried.

GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal Sep 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:54 David Sacks And this was when SPF was trying to create that pandemic prevention center in California. 2 times in the scene

Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback Aug 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores Jul 30, 2026 · 3 mentions

Binance CEO: 4 Months in Prison, $4 Billion Fine, and What Comes Next Feb 10, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:03:53 Chamath Palihapitiya Then you start to see some of these other folks start to pick up steam, SBF and FTX start to really tell me about that. 5 times in the scene

AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes May 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:21 David Sacks There's the effective altruist movement of which Sam Bankman-Fried is the most notable member, but which I think Dustin Mosfitz is now the main funder.

New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale Dec 7, 2024 · 1 mention

Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris Oct 3, 2024 · 1 mention

Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction? May 31, 2024 · 3 mentions

E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO Apr 5, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 7:39 Jason Calacanis We talked about SPF getting 25 years and that broke right as we started the show and we discussed that the customers of FTX were going to get made whole. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:13 David Sacks So in any event, Jason, I would just say that, you know, going back to the SBF story, the takeaway there is be careful what you're imbibing from the mainstream media because there's always an agenda.

E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more Mar 29, 2024 · 32 mentions

  • ▶ 1:45 Jason Calacanis One person who's not going to be eating well is SBF.
  • ▶ 4:28 David Sacks The crazy thing is that SPF was not, it turns out, a terrible investor. 18 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:51 Chamath Palihapitiya When I had my one and only interaction with SPF, which was over a zoom, I asked for a model and this arrogant ding dong that worked for him sent me like a five line Excel spreadsheet. 13 times in the scene

E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023 Dec 29, 2023 · 2 mentions

All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 · 7 mentions

E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO Aug 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12:20 Jason Calacanis Or we got the SBF, which is going to be big drama, uh, next year when this goes to court or Saks, we could go.

E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more Jun 24, 2023 · 14 mentions

E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion Apr 21, 2023 · 3 mentions

E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more Mar 24, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 50:27 Chamath Palihapitiya And there's all kinds of stories about his interrelatedness with Sam and his family.
  • ▶ 1:02:42 David Friedberg He uses Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX as an example, that the money that was given to Sam Bankman-Fried's, you know, exchange fund was used to buy assets that then very quickly declined in value by 99%, but he held them on the book 2 times in the scene

E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem Jan 13, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:32 David Sacks You see, if, if you do, if you do what SPF did, which is basically agree with all of their biases, then yes, they'll treat you better.
  • ▶ 1:23:02 Chamath Palihapitiya By the way, that's going to be really interesting as we enter this SBF trial. 2 times in the scene

E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions! Jan 6, 2023 · 1 mention

E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ Dec 24, 2022 · 20 mentions

E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more Dec 16, 2022 · 4 mentions

E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more Dec 10, 2022 · 14 mentions

E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more Dec 3, 2022 · 65 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05 Jason Calacanis Listen, uh, we have to start with scam bank run fraud.
  • ▶ 6:55 Chamath Palihapitiya Can I make a comparison to SBF and Trump through the lens of the media? 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:26 David Friedberg It's a 17 and a half minute YouTube video of SBF trading arbitrage across markets. 16 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:57 David Sacks I think that again, I think that excuses too much because it implies that if it wasn't SPF, it'd be somebody else. 17 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:01 David Sacks To basically, you know, do what he did, which is basically that SPF was trying to get, uh, Binance and, and competitors like that banned while SPF would be one of the sole people to get the license. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:09 David Sacks We got to back up here, because I think we've done a lot of, like, 30,000 foot, like, lessons and, like, takeaways from this whole thing, but we haven't really established what it is that SBF did wrong. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:28 Chamath Palihapitiya If anybody would just read this article, you can construct the right questions to ask this guy just based on this one article. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:47 David Sacks All right, listen, Jason, I will defend you against Tomas saying that somehow you're, uh, you know, that you're letting SPF off the hook. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:29 David Sacks I'm going to, I'm going to read you, I'm going to read you a sentence from the New York Times coverage of SBF. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:16 David Sacks SVF. 3 times in the scene

E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump Nov 19, 2022 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 3:08 David Sacks How nervous are they about SBF and how much money he gave them in order to stop that red wave?
  • ▶ 6:56 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, does that mean that SBF's parents, if Elizabeth Warren wins a presidency, SBF's parents are going to get its ambassadorship?
  • ▶ 1:14:11 David Sacks The, um, the SBF story, the interviews he did with the New York Times and Vox, and then this hysteria 12 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:30:36 David Sacks Meanwhile, while giving SBS a virtual pass, 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:34:27 David Sacks The first investigation by the House of Representatives needs to be SBF and FTX, not Hunter Biden. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:35:57 Chamath Palihapitiya There was an article that showed, Nick, if you could please throw the picture up on the screen of, of all the people that invested, uh, the universe of SBF.

E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more Nov 12, 2022 · 32 mentions

  • ▶ 3:47 Jason Calacanis This is called Bernie Madoff or SBF Bernie Madoff or SPF. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:01 Brian Armstrong that somebody like Sam, who seemingly is so smart and and capable, 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:45 Brian Armstrong I am imagining if Sam was doing when he when he started doing this, he probably wanted to keep it to a very small group. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:37 Chamath Palihapitiya Tell us about SPF. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:58 David Sacks Well, I was going to say, listen, I mean, story after story here about, you know, SBF was going to create this billion-dollar philanthropy to, you know, save the world, improve humanity's long-term prospects, number two donor to the entire…
  • ▶ 50:09 David Friedberg He seems like a brilliant guy. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:45 Jason Calacanis That I think SPF could.
  • ▶ 1:00:35 David Sacks But to be clear, look, what Sam did is way worse than people going on an exchange and speculating. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:05:23 Jason Calacanis And then there's multiple level of people who are, um, causing chaos in this ecosystem in this very promising technology with their goddamn grifts, whether it's VCs grifting or SPF or incompetence.
  • ▶ 1:14:04 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, this SPF thing is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the money at risk.

E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more Jun 30, 2022 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 4:47 Jason Calacanis Three AC owed Voyager Digital, six hundred fifty million, could not pay it, which sent Voyager stock down 60% and caused them to need a bailout from Sam Bankman Freed. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:56 David Sacks Sam Bankman Freed, he runs FTX, and his company, he lives in the Bahamas, okay, and there are probably reasons for that related to liability or taxes or something like that. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:22 Chamath Palihapitiya When Sam is saying some of these exchanges are actually insolvent, what he's saying is, well, that exchange has one master wallet address.

#AIS: FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver on how gamblers think May 30, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:12 Nate Silver Um, I talked to, um, Sam Beckman-Fried for the book, for example, and he's like, yeah, I knew this would have like a, only a 50% chance of succeeding, but the payoff was so high, I would take it. 2 times in the scene
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