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Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters Jul 18, 2026 · 4 mentions

AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie Jul 3, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 6, 2026 · 1 mention

Binance CEO: 4 Months in Prison, $4 Billion Fine, and What Comes Next Feb 10, 2026 · 1 mention

All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special Dec 24, 2025 · 1 mention

Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes Dec 13, 2025 · 1 mention

Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon Apr 19, 2025 · 5 mentions

DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias Apr 4, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Feb 22, 2025 · 1 mention

JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant Feb 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 12, 2024 · 1 mention

Sheryl Sandberg, plus open-source AI gene editing explained May 3, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 13, 2024 · 1 mention

E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more Jul 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 13, 2023 · 1 mention

E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more Sep 10, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Sep 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jul 29, 2022 · 1 mention

E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more Jul 22, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 14, 2022 · 46 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview Apr 16, 2022 · 3 mentions

E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more Apr 9, 2022 · 3 mentions

E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more Jan 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 4, 2021 · 1 mention

E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand Oct 23, 2021 · 3 mentions

Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more Sep 25, 2021 · 1 mention

E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more Jun 25, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jun 18, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 May 1, 2021 · 2 mentions

E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more Mar 13, 2021 · 1 mention

E21: Media misalignment, subjects controlling narratives & more with bestie guestie Draymond Green Feb 6, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 4, 2020 · 2 mentions

E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more Nov 11, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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! Nov 4, 2020 · 1 mention

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