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“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War
- ▶ 0:28 David Friedberg He's helped dismantle 12,000 Soviet nuclear weapons, and his book, Destined for War, remains the definitive framework for understanding the U.S.-China relationship.
California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City
- ▶ 1:51 Jan Sramek And, ah, growing up as a kid in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, um, California, California was the California dream.
Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
- ▶ 8:33 Anatoly Yakovenko It's really complicated, but I landed in the States in 1992 from the USSR effectively, and there's no way my parents could understand what a web link was, right?
Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- ▶ 45:58 Tucker Carlson But I mean, that's without precedent, really, even in the final years of the Soviet Union, there was no indication that it was that bad.
Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
- ▶ 49:12 Senator Eric Schmitt Um, you know, if you think about the cold war, it was meant to sort of prop them up to defeat Soviet communism.
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 37:30 Gavin Baker I think towards the end of the Soviet Union, they could not produce enough food using kind of, um, socialist systems. 2 times in the scene
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 39:16 David Sacks There's some, there's some truth to that, but that's a little bit simplifying the situation because what happened is at the end of the Soviet Union, there were a bunch of Soviet nukes that were in Ukraine. 3 times in the scene
Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
- ▶ 9:17 Tony Robbins I mean, what turned people in the Soviet Union against Soviet Union when they got access to seeing how the Westerners lived, then things changed when they didn't see it. 2 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 55:29 David Sacks Um, it was us in the Soviet Union, but they kind of had a different system.
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 48:25 David Sacks And so we ended up in a situation where, in the case of the United States versus the Soviet Union, where both sides had enough nukes to blow up the world many times over, and there wasn't really that much more to innovate.
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 37:12 David Sacks We did this during the cold war, by the way, we had the Soviet union and we had China. 3 times in the scene
Ray Dalio: US Debt Spiral, How to Avoid Disaster | The All-In Interview
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 1:24:12 David Friedberg And the image on the right starts to show the biggest ever tested was Tsar Bomba by the Soviets.
Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit
- ▶ 14:34 John Mearsheimer You surely would be in favor of a lying with Adolf, not with Adolf Hitler, with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union against
- ▶ 16:32 Jeffrey Sachs This is something a lot different that has to do with American power projection into the former Soviet Union, so it's completely different.
- ▶ 26:06 John Mearsheimer Imperial Germany, Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union.
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 1:07:10 David Friedberg So arguably, I would say that trying to step in and cap prices will reduce competition, and as a result, will reduce investment in improving productivity, and we have seen this countless times with every socialist experiment in human…
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 18:06 David Sacks So it's kind of like in the days of the Soviet Union, their military, the Red Army, would have in every division or unit, there would be, you know, a commander or lieutenant, and there'd be a commissar, ok?
E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
- ▶ 1:18:26 David Sacks They would like to be part of Russia, but when the whole Soviet Union fell apart, they found themselves kind of stranded inside these other countries.
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 1:36:31 Chamath Palihapitiya It's no longer the Soviet Union. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:58 David Sacks He was our chief diplomat and defined our containment policy towards the Soviet Union.
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 39:44 Tucker Carlson Woolly mammoths found encased in ice in Siberia in the Soviet. 2 times in the scene
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 26:57 David Sacks The generals in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis were all ready to take the nukes off the chain if the Soviets
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 5:33 Graham Allison In the rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union that had dominated 40 decades, 40 years of American history, the US and, ah, the Soviet Union came to the edge of war multiple times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:23 Graham Allison In the case of the US and Soviet Union, just to remember, it's hard to believe, but if you go back and read your economic textbook that was published in the 19 sixties, Samuelson was the, you know, basically for economics, it says, by the… 2 times in the scene
In conversation with Chris Christie
- ▶ 32:57 Chris Christie They've made some success in the past couple of weeks in terms of breaking through some of the Soviet initial defensive lines. 3 times in the scene
E140: LK-99, Sclerotic establishments, Fitch downgrades US debt, Trump indicted... again
- ▶ 1:17:10 David Sacks Jack Smith is doing here is going for this bank shot where he wants to charge Trump with incitement, but he knows he can't win that case, so he's going for this backdoor civil rights law to sidestep the First Amendment problem, and in my…
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 1:36:05 Vivek Ramaswamy A fixation, not because these candidates, I think, have arrived at this viewpoint independently through reasoning their way to it, but just understanding that that's what they are supposed to say in the tradition of a party that was… 3 times in the scene
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- ▶ 1:14:08 David Sacks I mean, during the entire Cold War, they were at much greater risk facing the Soviet Union on their border, which was a much more powerful and much more expansionist country than Putin's Russia has been. 2 times in the scene
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 41:33 David Sacks Remember that when we faced the Soviet Union, their economy was never bigger than one third of the US economy, the Soviet bloc versus the Western bloc. 2 times in the scene
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 1:02:19 David Sacks Look, the United States set up a system of global free trade basically in 1945, and we had a bipolar world with, we had the Soviets and America, but the Soviets basically opted out because they were communists. 2 times in the scene
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 15:52 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the why did NATO, this is what George Kennan said after, after, you know, the, the Soviet Union collapsed.
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 1:22:36 David Sacks Remember, the Soviets, you had a Stalinist regime, the Chinese had Mao. 2 times in the scene
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 1:16:32 David Sacks I've gone back and listened to our former ambassador to the Soviet Union, Jack Matlock.
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 47:30 David Sacks Before, during the Cold War, it was a bipolar world, where it was basically America versus the Soviet Union, and you obviously had
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 40:10 David Sacks Perry was against it because like George Kennan, like former ambassador to the Soviet Union, James Matlock, he understood that it would be provocative. 2 times in the scene
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 1:06:04 Jason Calacanis Ok, so, uh, Gorbachev, the last ruler of the USSR, passed away this week.
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 51:32 David Sacks Again, the Soviet Union and China during the Cold War being the key example.
E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more
- ▶ 44:27 David Sacks The island chain strategy was originally created by John Foster Dulles, this, one of the, uh, Secretary of State, I think, under Eisenhower, who was one of the initial architects of our containment policy against the Soviet Union, but also…
#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril
- ▶ 49:38 Palmer Luckey The problem is aircraft carriers were not designed to be a peer-to-peer, uh, a peer-to-peer great powers tool for us to go toe-to-toe with the Soviets or the Chinese.
#AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 1:27:59 Jason Calacanis And I think what we may have here is two crazy grandpas, one that wants to put the USSR back together, and one that wants to be the person who ousts Putin.
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 25:14 David Sacks Because we did not want hot war with the Soviet Union.
- ▶ 58:32 David Sacks And he went to the, freely went to the, to the Soviet Union to try and make a deal. 3 times in the scene
E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more
- ▶ 7:40 David Sacks The fact of the matter is when Soviet tanks, they rolled into Hungary in 1956 or Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the Prague Spring or Poland in 1981 to crush solidarity. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:37 David Friedberg History, you know, post-Soviet history with Ukraine and the relationships.
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 1:34:46 David Sacks So, during the days of the Soviet Union, you know, you had Nixon and Kissinger make the great opening to Mao and China, and we were able to cultivate a relationship there because China and Russia were natural antagonists, and it was a…
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 22:26 Balaji Srinivasan You know, where it's, it's like different emphases in terms of what is prioritized, but you know, and I think in many ways, China is like the new Nazi Germany woke America is like the new Soviet Russia and the decentralized center is going…
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 19:53 David Friedberg And if you look at the history of Afghanistan, remember, they were in the Soviet Afghan war in the eighties, nearly the entire decade of the eighties.
E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more
- ▶ 9:32 David Friedberg Um, what we are seeing is a lot of people just hacking the website, almost like Soviet Union era bread lines, where they go to the website, they type in something that's not true.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 45:28 David Sacks Uh, which if you want to sustain a policy in this country over say, 40 years, like we did in containing the Soviet Union, you have to have bipartisan support for that.
E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 49:42 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, except that China is a much more worthy adversary for us than the USSR, SSR was at their peak.