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GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
- ▶ 57:47 David Sacks Then you've kind of got the Doomer groups, and there's, um, a writer named Nirit Weisblatt, who writes a blog called AI Panic, who a couple of years ago traced that there were hundreds of these AstroTurf Doomer groups that were basically…
Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
- ▶ 34:45 Eric Weinstein I mean, I, I've spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley.
Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
- ▶ 0:53 Jason Calacanis On regulation, Sachs, he said, quote, I know the Silicon Valley shorthand where regulation equals regulatory capture equals concentration of power, but I've always found this to be an overly simplified picture.
- ▶ 36:53 Jason Calacanis It goes up into the cloud and then comes back down into Silicon Valley, polarizing more wealth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:41 Chamath Palihapitiya It's a place you come to to say, oh, I came, you know, to Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:13:46 Chamath Palihapitiya And specifically in Silicon Valley, we've completely lost the script because we've gotten to the far, far, far end of that. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 3:32 Jason Calacanis This is an extraordinary ramp up of revenue that we have never seen in Silicon Valley, uh, at a two trillion dollar valuation. 2 times in the scene
Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
- ▶ 39:21 Jason Calacanis And they've been trying to, uh, essentially kick out some of these best and brightest we brought here, which has a negative impact on our ability to build great companies in Silicon Valley, et cetera.
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 24:02 Brad Gerstner We have funds like, uh, across Silicon Valley that are distributing their shares.
- ▶ 54:13 Brad Gerstner You know, so people are saying, oh my God, this thing sold for two times revenue.
- ▶ 1:04:04 Brad Gerstner So if this is a failure, this is a pretty good failure for Silicon Valley.
China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan
- ▶ 41:27 Dino Mavrucas Like every one of our employees, every welder, every pipe fitter, um, they have good wages, the same benefits as our Silicon Valley software engineers.
Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
- ▶ 39:04 David Sacks Number one is virtue signaling, and that can never be underestimated as a motive in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 48:45 Jason Calacanis Latest survey, hand-wringing, pearl-clutching, do you think these firms, and you know a lot of these people, Freberg, having been in the Valley forever, do you think this is sincerity, or do you think they're Frankenstein-maxing?
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- ▶ 24:13 Chamath Palihapitiya I've never seen it in my 25 years in Silicon Valley where a sector of the economy can absorb hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
- ▶ 34:27 Mark Cuban And I was like, wow, is that why do people still go to Silicon Valley? 3 times in the scene
Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 39:50 Chamath Palihapitiya I haven't really seen Apple act very litigiously in 25 years in Silicon Valley.
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 22:39 Brad Gerstner In the history of Silicon Valley, okay?
- ▶ 1:34:36 Brad Gerstner And there's any Silicon Valley consumer company would be thrilled with the numbers that we're seeing, the ratings that we're seeing, the engagement that we're seeing. 2 times in the scene
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 2:08 Alex Karp To the consensus view in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:33:40 Jason Calacanis The tragedy of it all is that California at various points in recent history has had a surplus because of the massive tax base from Silicon Valley.
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 3:58 Chamath Palihapitiya As a result, Silicon Valley has lost even more credibility with the people at large.
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 46:19 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that Silicon Valley was already decaying in the prestige that it held in American society. 2 times in the scene
Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
- ▶ 36:06 Kelly Rodriques Um, they're not in the main strip of high value real estate in Silicon Valley.
Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- ▶ 29:39 Chamath Palihapitiya What happens in Silicon Valley when three or four trillion dollars gets put back to GPs, then to LPs, and then the recycling happens?
Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
- ▶ 15:08 unnamed speaker The, the, um, the, you know, the fanciest title in Silicon Valley these days is a Ford deployed engineer, which is basically like an IT consultant who can close the gap between the promise of AI and the ROI of it, and I think people are…
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 1:06:39 Jason Calacanis You know, the strategy obviously in Silicon Valley was to hire.
- ▶ 1:10:05 Jason Calacanis That strategy just became the standard in Silicon Valley, and now it's being reversed.
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 1:02:38 Jason Calacanis Mark is the greatest salesman in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:16:15 Marc Benioff And, uh, one of the great institutions in Silicon Valley.
How We Grew Koch Industries to $150 Billion Without Going Public: Charles & Chase Koch
- ▶ 1:04 David Friedberg In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs, and even mature company CEOs always like to learn about the story of other businesses and the success of those businesses, and I've always felt like Koch Industries was that untold story.
- ▶ 31:17 Chase Koch Um, we, we tried to basically take a little bit of the Silicon Valley approach and bring, you know, of experimental discovery.
- ▶ 45:19 David Friedberg My observation would, I would create a theory, we could test the theory right now, that being in Wichita, being founder or owner operated, and, you know, having this ability to be isolated from a monoculture, I just feel like Silicon… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:35 David Friedberg There's this argument that the, the best Silicon Valley companies are those who are founder led for as long as possible because the founders are willing to destroy the business creatively.
Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
- ▶ 1:00:37 Spencer Pratt There's people all over the world that are telling me, hey, we want to make LA the Silicon Valley of the world.
Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
- ▶ 14:50 David Sacks Nobody in Silicon Valley has ever seen anything like it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:56 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that there's a pretty profound vibe shift with respect to tech, tech oligarchs, Silicon Valley, and particularly the AI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:01 David Sacks Starts in Silicon Valley.
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- ▶ 5:25 David Sacks They released chat GPT, 5.5 and the reviews from, you know, people I talked to in Silicon Valley have been really strong.
- ▶ 53:25 Jason Calacanis And, uh, they pushed the code from a repo to a live app and they deleted everything, including the backups, literally a scene from Silicon Valley's
The State of Modern War: Palantir & Anduril Execs on Drones, AI, and the End of Traditional Warfare
- ▶ 4:27 unnamed speaker Why do you think it became taboo and became so negative, particularly in Silicon Valley, that building a defense company or a company building technology to service the defense sector was viewed with, with such disdain and was an…
Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
- ▶ 39:28 David Sacks Software engineers has always been an area of the economy where companies have never been able to hire enough, even Silicon Valley, which is the most attractive place. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:15 Alex Karp The one thing, though, that I think even now is underestimated by all actors in industry, and including in Silicon Valley, is how disruptive these technologies are.
“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War
- ▶ 44:27 Graham Allison One of my friends has gladiatorial conflict that makes the competition in Silicon Valley look, look tame as the, you know, as the parties fight each other.
Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom
- ▶ 17:58 Prince Reza Pahlavi Many of the high-tech companies, including Silicon Valley, employ so many Iranians, or they are themselves entrepreneurs.
- ▶ 31:09 Shervin Pishevar When you add up the numbers, it gets the trillions of dollars of value have been created by this small population of Iranians in America, and especially in Silicon Valley, and I've been blessed to be part of that circle.
- ▶ 34:31 Shervin Pishevar The vast majority of Iranians, uh, want a, a separation of, of, uh, church and state, um, of mosque and state, uh, and, uh, we've seen what, 47, we've had an A-B test, uh, in Silicon Valley speak,
War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 1:01:25 Chamath Palihapitiya Fundamentally just hate Silicon Valley and technology.
Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 20:29 David Sacks But think about software engineering, even among startups in Silicon Valley, which I think are probably some of the most attractive places for software engineers to work.
Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- ▶ 1:20:10 Kevin Bass Uh, Reid Hoffman was his gateway into, uh, Silicon Valley, into tech, the main guy.
- ▶ 1:28:26 David Sacks They wrote an article about Epstein's ties to Silicon Valley.
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 1:07:27 Jason Calacanis Waymo's in the valley now.
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 8:41 David Sacks And there was an article in the New York times today talking about Epstein's connections to Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:42 David Friedberg But also, he spends a lot of time in Silicon Valley.
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:41:43 Adam Goldstein And I, I mean, literally, back in Silicon Valley, I, like, no one, I mean, yes, we've heard it on the news, of course, yes, of course, it's important, but people aren't talking about it on an every hour basis.
Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
- ▶ 58:04 Jason Calacanis That's a uniquely Silicon Valley entrepreneurial way to look at it.
- ▶ 1:04:27 David Sacks Uh, AI experts in Silicon Valley to build his advisory panel, and this impressed me right away with, uh, the energy that you bring, the knowledge, the passion.
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 1:07:39 Jason Calacanis Biden, their team, wasn't courting Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:30:53 Jake Loosararian In Silicon Valley, we, we only exist in the world of, of the internet. 2 times in the scene
Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
- ▶ 1:11 David Sacks Um, China obviously has a lot of very smart people working in this area, but I do think that, uh, just what you see from, uh, American companies in Silicon Valley right now is really incredible.
- ▶ 35:03 David Sacks We know from Silicon Valley that the companies that end up becoming huge are the ones that create ecosystems. 5 times in the scene
Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
- ▶ 1:11:28 unnamed speaker One of the other things that we talk a lot about in Silicon Valley is this shift in AI, using AI to diagnose your condition.
Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026
- ▶ 20:56 Hemant Taneja Yeah, look, um, every company has to say Silicon Valley, but broadly in the tech industry and the startup industry.
- ▶ 45:23 Hemant Taneja I used to, I, I grew up writing apps on this, and then in 2011 I moved to the Valley, and I had my Blackberry, I put it on a table like this, I met with somebody who was a well-known person in the Valley, we had a good conversation, at the… 2 times in the scene
Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- ▶ 58:05 unnamed speaker So I work in Silicon Valley, and a lot of what Silicon Valley is on the receiving end of at this moment is this extraordinary anti-tech, anti-AI sentiment that seems to be brewing and bubbling on both sides of the aisle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:28 Adam Carolla Silicon Valley, AI, and big tech is, is going to be the boogeyman of the future.
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 26:03 David Friedberg This may actually be catalyzing a big change in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:20:57 Jason Calacanis It's gonna be very exciting for Silicon Valley.
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 2:55 Jason Calacanis Friend of the pod, Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, he
Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- ▶ 1:07:33 David Sacks A small click in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- ▶ 7:01 David Sacks And I do think one of the things that's unique about Silicon Valley is just that the founders and CEOs do treat
- ▶ 28:26 Jason Calacanis On Sunday, the New York Times published an article titled, Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends. 4 times in the scene
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- ▶ 21:33 Chamath Palihapitiya In any other world, he would have been in Silicon Valley doing the same thing.
How Chamath Optimized His Health
- ▶ 3:54 Andrew Stevens So I reached out to Chamath when we had just opened a clinic in Silicon Valley during COVID, and I thought, I knew he was a bit of a hacker, a biohacker, and I really wanted him to experience what we were doing.
Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- ▶ 26:23 David Sacks Look, no one was more critical of the big tech companies engaging in censorship in Silicon Valley than me when Donald Trump was kicked off every big tech platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:13 Brad Gerstner Silicon Valley is losing the battle around AI.
- ▶ 31:02 Brad Gerstner Well, I, I would just say they correlate with what the information is reported as leaked, you know, data from, from both companies, and, and that makes them both the fastest growing companies in the history of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 36:50 Jason Calacanis The host of Gil Tony is going to mercilessly roast everyone in Silicon Valley and the besties.
Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower
- ▶ 21:09 Tareq Amin I mean, that's, I'm, I'm living there almost full time, um, and what I have done, if you come to Humane office today, in my opinion, it is no different than a Silicon Valley office.
Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
- ▶ 1:40 Jason Calacanis and you said, Hey, you know, these, these libertarian science-based folks, uh, in Silicon Valley, they made a very practical decision. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:11 Jason Calacanis And that's how they feel, but that's how, that's how Silicon Valley feels.
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- ▶ 1:10:57 Jason Calacanis What are your thoughts having worked in Silicon Valley for a couple of decades?
California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker California Forever owns more than a hundred square miles of land here in Solano County, backed by Silicon Valley investors to build a new city.
- ▶ 3:59 Jan Sramek And we are doing that in a place called Solano County, which is about halfway between Silicon Valley and Sacramento. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:54 Jan Sramek Which will be the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, um, where Silicon Valley can once again co-locate R&D and, um, and production. 3 times in the scene
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 15:39 Chamath Palihapitiya That's what Silicon Valley does.
Inside Orlando Bravo’s Private Equity Playbook: How to Build a Top Firm
- ▶ 8:42 Orlando Bravo We didn't buy a company in Silicon Valley till 2010.
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 10:41 Brad Gerstner And if you think about moonshots, we all do these in Silicon Valley.
Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech
- ▶ 2:59 Ro Khanna And anyone in Silicon Valley, I mean, you guys know this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:57 Ro Khanna I said, you're, you're making a mistake if you think that getting Silicon Valley folks on your side is about the money, because they would always say, oh, Biden's going to raise all this money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:51 Ro Khanna You wouldn't have the economic prosperity of Silicon Valley if you didn't have the safety of Silicon Valley, because you wouldn't have executives living there.
Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI: Nvidia Lessons, Intel’s Decline and the US-China Chip War
Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
- ▶ 19:25 Alex Filippenko Silicon Valley, where I conduct much of my research and public outreach.
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America
- ▶ 28:20 David Friedberg We appreciate what you've done, the impact you've had on Silicon Valley, uh, as a society.
Oval Office Tour with President Trump
- ▶ 0:50 Donald J. Trump This is three outstanding people that really understand, uh, I guess you could say the world of Silicon Valley and beyond, way beyond, and we're very proud of what's happened, and David said to me, would you mind giving a little tour of…
- ▶ 14:34 David Sacks And one thing I want to add on AI, sir, is that this investment that you're basically triggering is going to benefit all Americans, not just Silicon Valley companies.
Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- ▶ 2:05 David Sacks I think it originally started with a group that Chamath organized in Silicon Valley, and they were kind of the core nucleus of this, and then more and more people just wanted to come and try to get in, and the president invited some of the…
Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
- ▶ 20:36 David Sacks This goes a little bit further, and it's a little bit of a shot across the bow of these Silicon Valley companies saying, look, you need to play it straight. 2 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
- ▶ 17:57 Donald J. Trump Whether we like it or not, we're suddenly engaged in a fast-paced competition to build and define this groundbreaking technology that will determine so much about the future of civilization itself because of the genius and creativity of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:13 Donald J. Trump Silicon Valley rose to wealth, fame, and glory by exemplifying these values, and it will win this race, not by rejecting them, but by embracing them like they have never been embraced before.
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