Sri Lanka, every mention
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Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 1:22:18 David Sacks You don't live in Sri Lanka anymore, Chamath. 4 times in the scene
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 1:11:10 Chamath Palihapitiya When my parents went to Canada and then stayed, I think part of what they were doing, whether they knew it or not, was making an explicit decision to be Canadian first, which who happened to be of Sri Lankan origin. 2 times in the scene
War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 2:57 Jason Calacanis A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka.
Binance CEO: 4 Months in Prison, $4 Billion Fine, and What Comes Next
- ▶ 4:07 Chamath Palihapitiya My mom was a nurse in Sri Lanka, and when we emigrated, when we got refugee status,
All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
- ▶ 42:29 David Sacks Chamath is from Sri Lanka.
Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- ▶ 43:13 Chamath Palihapitiya I don't consider myself Sri Lankan Canadian American.
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 1:08:20 Jason Calacanis They asked Chamath to be more Sri Lankan. 5 times in the scene
DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 1:16:17 Chamath Palihapitiya The, the worst part for me, I only had one moment where I was like, oh gosh, he stopped on Sri Lanka. 4 times in the scene
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
- ▶ 1:34:37 Andrew Schulz It's tough with the, it's tough with the, I know you're Sri Lanka, but it's tough with the names from over there.
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- ▶ 54:39 Jason Calacanis You wouldn't know this from being from Sri Lanka, a great country.
JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- ▶ 50:43 Chamath Palihapitiya Where my parents would try to pretend that they were in Sri Lanka, and sometimes I would get so frustrated, I'm like, if you want to be in Sri Lanka, go back to Sri Lanka. 2 times in the scene
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 1:03:29 Chamath Palihapitiya But if you came to Sri Lanka, you'd see people in saris, you'd see people dressed in traditional garb.
Sheryl Sandberg, plus open-source AI gene editing explained
- ▶ 53:31 Chamath Palihapitiya I remember when I was getting older and I was curious, why did my family not go back to Sri Lanka? 2 times in the scene
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 1:12:44 Chamath Palihapitiya Look, I'm Sri Lankan.
E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more
- ▶ 36:15 David Sacks He's like, if you Google Nathalie Dompe, you'll find this picture of her holding a tiger, a lion by the tail, which is a lot more exciting than holding a Sri Lankan by the schlong.
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 23:00 David Sacks Including promoting things like organic farming in Sri Lanka, which we talked about on the show, caused their economy to collapse.
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 27:24 Chamath Palihapitiya That's about to get defaulted on by countries like Belize, Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, you name it.
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 12:59 Chamath Palihapitiya I was born in Sri Lanka, I was raised in Canada, so, and now I live in the United States, obviously, I've been a citizen of all three countries, so two of the three countries, I've been a subject
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 54:01 David Sacks My point is, look at the collapse of the Sri Lankan economy because they implemented these ESG rules on fertilizer.
E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- ▶ 0:04 Jason Calacanis He's living the life of a Sri Lankan prince.
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 38:54 Chamath Palihapitiya The thing that if you look, for example, like, you know, in that example of Sri Lanka, Singapore, Jamaica, and how there were these three completely different outcomes underneath the most successful outcome was an incredibly clear,…
- ▶ 57:21 Jason Calacanis Sri Lanka's stress test, you know, uh, showed us what's happening with their farming issues and with corruption, and here in China, the stress test, I think you would agree, is showing what's going on in terms of
E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
- ▶ 1:01 Jason Calacanis The dictator himself from his palace in Sri Lanka, uh, his new palace in Sri Lanka. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:07 David Friedberg For people to be able to afford food, to be able to afford energy, this is part of what we're seeing happening in, um, in Sri Lanka. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:54 Jason Calacanis We could jump into Sri Lanka if we want. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:49 David Sacks Well, look, there's a strong analogy between the populist uprising that's happening in the Netherlands with the Dutch farmers and the populist uprising that's happening in Sri Lanka. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:14 Jason Calacanis By the way, if people don't know, Chamath is of Sri Lankan descent, just to make that clear, if you didn't hear his little mention of it. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:07 David Friedberg I mean, you saw the protests and people storming the presidential palace in Sri Lanka. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:00 Jason Calacanis Gas lines that Sri Lanka had, uh, you would see a definite fracturing of how people look at it.
Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
- ▶ 1:11:14 Chamath Palihapitiya Oh, from Sri Lanka. 2 times in the scene
E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- ▶ 1:20 Jason Calacanis He'll educate us in a minute Sri Lanka. 3 times in the scene
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 1:07:33 David Friedberg Sri Lanka is gonna be a mess. 3 times in the scene
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 45:17 Chamath Palihapitiya But implicitly, you know, when I look at the places that I left, and specifically, you know, when I look about when I look at Sri Lanka, who, you know, has a very checkered human rights record, in fact, terrible, in some ways, and the way…
E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
- ▶ 1:25 Jason Calacanis The Urkel from Sri Lanka at a 142 pounds.
E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- ▶ 58:11 Jason Calacanis You, you are inspiring people in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
- ▶ 1:12:23 Jason Calacanis If I have to say, okay, you're Sri Lankan, but you're rich Chamath and 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 25:32 Chamath Palihapitiya China was in Sri Lanka.
E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
- ▶ 46:08 Jason Calacanis The, I just want to go back to the thing that I wanted to define bifurcation, you're saying two different markets, but what if there is, hey, we're going to sanction, we're not going to send Disney movies, or they're not going to let…
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 1:08:55 Jason Calacanis And now how is anybody supposed to have a reasonable argument when I have to process like, oh, Chabat's from, you know, Sri Lanka, but he went through Canada and he worked for, I mean, it's just, it's so reductive that no one gets, it's so…
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 27:52 Chamath Palihapitiya There was like two of them when I was in Sri Lanka.
- ▶ 36:48 David Sacks Cal as much credit for where he came from as Chamath, because I don't know, those parts of Brooklyn are maybe as tough as Sri Lanka.
E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more
- ▶ 24:01 Chamath Palihapitiya And there was, it was, and now, and look, I'll say this as a Canadian and a Sri Lankan.
E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green
- ▶ 58:45 Draymond Green Like I, you know, you try not to never forget, but let's, let's be frank, you know, Shamab, Shamab, you, you grew up with nothing, uh, coming from India and, or Sri Lanka and going to Canada.
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 1:21:25 Jason Calacanis Sri Lanka. 2 times in the scene
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 39:34 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, if he took a thousand Sri Lankans and put them in a room and said, Chamath, I'm going to judge you as a Sri Lankan vote, I would tell you to go fuck yourself.
E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
- ▶ 16:07 Chamath Palihapitiya Who's listening here all the way from Sri Lanka.