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

GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal Sep 4, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 14:53 David Sacks I mean, I'm sure you guys have seen that home prices in San Francisco are going through the roof right now. 5 times in the scene

Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine Aug 29, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 52:36 David Friedberg Train from San Francisco to Fresno that costs more than an airline ticket is so idiotic. 2 times in the scene

Inside Trump's Science Agenda: Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China w/ Michael Kratsios Aug 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:26 Michael Kratsios I mean, they were, they were, you know, you can imagine, um, and you probably know well being in California, I mean, there were all these initiatives out in San Francisco where they stopped wanting to teach, you know, advanced algebra to…

Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley Aug 18, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 38:10 Jason Calacanis San Francisco famously with these ALPRs, automated license plate something, automated license plate reader. 4 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 50:59 Rahm Emanuel Now, to housing, there is where the government has messed up, and this is not on the national level, but on the local level, it has made it both when you get things like in San Francisco, like in New York,

The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:49 Bernt Børnich Personally, actually, I'm, I'm like, I have a use case for NEO, uh, in teleop, which is, I'm part of the time in Norway, mostly in San Francisco area now, but part of the time in Norway.

The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence? Jul 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:26:41 Jason Calacanis The only people who can't seem to figure this out, you know, is like New York, LA, and San Francisco, just happens to be liberal elite enclaves.

Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs Jul 10, 2026 · 4 mentions

Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?! Jun 29, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:31 Nate Silver And I understand why LA and SF, I think LA in particular kind of never really recovered from the pandemic.
  • ▶ 37:51 Nate Silver I used to live right near Penn station, Madison square garden, not the nicest neighborhood, not the nicest block, but like, I never walked around feeling unsafe there when I visit SF.

All-In's Best Ideas Pitch Competition: 4 Investors Present Their Top Trades Live Jun 12, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:57 Oleg Noodleman My fund, EcoR One Capital, which is based in San Francisco, thinks of investing in biotech in a slightly different way.
  • ▶ 27:19 Oleg Noodleman I'm the Founder and Managing Director of EcoR One Capital, a San Francisco-based value-oriented biotech fund that I started about 13 years ago.
  • ▶ 49:06 Kyle Samani There are four teams in San Francisco.

Dan Dreyfus: The Next AI Bottleneck is Copper Jun 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Jun 4, 2026 · 1 mention

SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis? May 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:13:44 Gavin Baker He actually shares an office in San Francisco with a friend of mine, so I think I'll probably meet him sometime soon, but he's got a, for that 13 F that he filed was at the end of the first quarter when, you know, I would say we were in…

Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back May 10, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 36:08 unnamed speaker So we, we had this issue in LA, in San Francisco, where I live, and Mayor Lurie came in.
  • ▶ 36:48 Spencer Pratt And he talked to me about Mayor Lurie in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:00:44 Spencer Pratt LA should be the tech center of the world with respect to San Francisco or wherever these people are and Marin County, I don't even know where they are.

CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win Apr 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:34 Jason Calacanis And if you live in the major cities, San Francisco, Los Angeles, they let people out for petty crimes under 850 dollars.

Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas Mar 17, 2026 · 5 mentions

War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Mar 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:56 Emil Michael And if one gets wobbly from a policy scenario too, because they all, you know, except for Elon's is based in San Francisco and has that, that vibe to it.

Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV Feb 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:22 Jason Calacanis And then there's the reality on the field, which is Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Australia, other places have a much higher minimum wage.

The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026 Jan 25, 2026 · 1 mention

Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos Jan 24, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 58:55 Jason Calacanis If you look at the war on drugs, um, how unsuccessful it's been, uh, people go to San Francisco for a reason for their fentanyl, because they can buy it and there's no policing. 3 times in the scene

Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos! Jan 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:32 Brian Armstrong I mean, San Francisco had this, um, kind of, uh, like revenue-based tax that was very punitive on, um, financial services companies. 2 times in the scene

Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients Jan 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 unnamed speaker Welcome to San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism Jan 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:55 unnamed speaker I saw this in San Francisco when they gave away needles and then they created this sort of safe space for people to do fentanyl and do drugs and shoot up by giving them free needles and saying, you can do it here.

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

  • ▶ 1:10:06 David Friedberg Ok, by the way, you know, San Francisco has that insane luxury tax, which they have in LA too. 2 times in the scene

All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special Dec 24, 2025 · 9 mentions

Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026? Dec 19, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 30:57 Jason Calacanis And in San Francisco, because there are so many Waymos, they don't want them to have a bad experience.
  • ▶ 53:06 David Friedberg He was found wandering the streets of the Mission District in San Francisco. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:20:43 unnamed speaker They already do that at Sachs' house in San Francisco.

Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes Dec 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:53 Jason Calacanis You will be wrong, because you'll see taxi drivers are going to be the first group to do it, and it's already happening in different places in the world, as I mentioned, in China, and it's already starting to happen in places like San…
  • ▶ 1:11:17 Jason Calacanis When you see drive-throughs moving to AI, and when you see a third of rides in San Francisco and LA move to Waymo without the driver in it, it's really hard to say it's not happening.

OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line? Dec 6, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 57:17 Jason Calacanis And it feels like this dovetails, Chamath, with a discussion we had a couple of weeks ago when a viral clip of Ben Shapiro talking about, hey, just opt out of New York City, opt out of San Francisco. 4 times in the scene

Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth Nov 14, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 17:12 Jason Calacanis And there is no competitor to the greatest holiday party ever happening December sixth in San Francisco.
  • ▶ 29:28 Jason Calacanis Perfect segue into what I'm seeing on the ground, you know, and I, I lived in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and as folks know now, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:18 Jason Calacanis These elite lunatic kids in New York City or San Francisco think they deserve to live in Manhattan.
  • ▶ 46:44 David Friedberg London time on November 12th, which by the way, was just before I got on the airplane to fly from Japan to San Francisco.

Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option Nov 7, 2025 · 3 mentions

Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower Nov 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:00 Jason Calacanis The enthusiasm level reminded me of New York and San Francisco in the nineties, early 2000, the opportunity to build anything.

Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia Oct 31, 2025 · 2 mentions

NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias Oct 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:05 David Sacks That's what they said about, remember when they did the transfer tax where San Francisco took six percent of my home?

California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City Oct 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:30 Jan Sramek The land we own is two and a half times the size of the city of San Francisco.
  • ▶ 8:46 Jan Sramek You need to build a whole city to support them, and to do that, we're building a new walkable city for up to 400,000 people, um, but unlike the shipyard and the foundry, which are about technologies of the future and of the 21st century,…

Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis Oct 18, 2025 · 29 mentions

Inside Orlando Bravo’s Private Equity Playbook: How to Build a Top Firm Oct 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

Cathie Wood on How AI Can Double GDP, Bull Case for Bitcoin $1M, Elon’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Package Oct 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:09 Cathie Wood Now that autonomous taxis are debuting in the case of Tesla in Austin and San Francisco.

Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally Oct 10, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 15:49 David Sacks In San Francisco, here, you got leftists are still trying to get diversion for Troy McAllister, who killed Hannah Abe and Elizabeth Platt on New Year's Eve, twenty-twenty.
  • ▶ 23:38 Brad Gerstner And then the other thing I would just underscore is if you look at what Daniel Lurie is doing in the city of San Francisco, he is live blogging on Twitter and Instagram, the arrest of a hundred fugitives per night. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:46 Jason Calacanis I, I think actually the, the best thing to do if Trump is intent on saying, hey, crime's out of control in San Francisco, which we all experienced, and you guys continue to experience if you're, if you're in the city.

Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy Oct 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:24:05 Jason Calacanis and then the states have to go back and forth in these lawsuits to see can New York City, San Francisco ban guns.

Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech Oct 2, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:12 Ro Khanna And I think that there is a group of pragmatic mayors now, Dan Lurie, I would say in San Francisco, Matt Mahan, 2 times in the scene

Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America Sep 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:32 Eric Schmidt I don't agree with you on this, on this AGI thing, because there's this group, which I call the San Francisco, um, narrative, because they all live in San Francisco, and their narrative goes something like this. 2 times in the scene

Why Are So Many Companies Going Bankrupt In 2025? - David Friedberg Sep 4, 2025 · 1 mention

Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough Aug 29, 2025 · 1 mention

AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken? Aug 15, 2025 · 5 mentions

OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis Aug 9, 2025 · 2 mentions

Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs Jul 11, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:59 Travis Kalanick We see the Waymo's in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, coming soon to Miami, coming soon to Atlanta, coming soon to DC.
  • ▶ 46:58 Jason Calacanis So I just asked it, Hey, give me the best flights from, um, United airlines and, uh, business class from New York city, from San Francisco to New York city.
  • ▶ 1:14:28 Jason Calacanis In May, a San Francisco-based federal judge sided with the unions blocking the executive order.

David Friedberg Reacts to Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Mayoral Run Jun 30, 2025 · 3 mentions

12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner Jun 28, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 43:38 David Friedberg Sits in San Francisco, sits in Portland, and sits in Chicago.
  • ▶ 47:14 Jason Calacanis Just one warning for people in these states, in these cities, we saw this, Sachs, in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:32:59 Jason Calacanis Federal judge out of San Francisco ruled anthropic use of copyrighted books in AI training was legal if, if the company had purchased or licensed the books through legal means.

IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate Jun 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:17 Thomas Laffont I think one, the economy, which, you know, unlike the San Francisco economy being levered to AI and on the upswing is more levered to entertainment.

The Formula for Building America's Happiest City: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez | All-In Live Jun 3, 2025 · 4 mentions

Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO May 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue Mar 22, 2025 · 2 mentions

The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent Mar 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz Mar 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:59 Andrew Schulz Somebody I grew up in like San Francisco.
  • ▶ 13:20 Chamath Palihapitiya By the way, his popularity has gone up, which is insane, which after the fires and all of the ineptitude in California, all of the corporations that have run away, all of the people that have left, the chaos in San Francisco, after all of…

Remote Work Under Fire: All-In Podcast Unpacks Jamie Dimon’s Leaked Rant! Feb 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:44 John Collison Like most people are, you know, uh, part of our San Francisco office or New York or Dublin or Singapore or wherever.

The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private Feb 22, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:24 John Collison It was one of these San Francisco setups where it was like a two-bedroom apartment.
  • ▶ 22:17 John Collison Like most people are, you know, part of our San Francisco office or New York or Dublin or Singapore or wherever.
  • ▶ 1:17:53 Jason Calacanis I don't want to see any of these raptors running around, uh, San Francisco, okay?
  • ▶ 1:25:04 Patrick Collison And San Francisco now kind of, at least in the physical domain, stands for a kind of stasis, you know, it takes you 10 years to, you know, build anything.
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