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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 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:09 David Friedberg Article published from Stanford in March of this year, counter to Mamdani's statement. 2 times in the scene

Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats Aug 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 53:12 Rahm Emanuel And when I was done, Stanford called it the single best, Sean Ritter in there, at Stanford, the single best education system of the top 100. 2 times in the scene

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

Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage Jun 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:01 Bill Maris And no one at the Stanford endowment is going to get in trouble for writing that check.

Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING Jun 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:20 Bill Ackman What's the risk of two guys, two women from Stanford in a garage, you know, coming up with something?

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute Jun 2, 2026 · 1 mention

The State of Modern War: Palantir & Anduril Execs on Drones, AI, and the End of Traditional Warfare Apr 6, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:04 Trey Stevens Uh, I, uh, oftentimes go and do, uh, guest lectures at Stanford, and I always try to ask, like, raise your hand if you have an immediate family member that serves in the military. 2 times in the scene

Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare Mar 13, 2026 · 1 mention

Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick Feb 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 47:54 Jason Calacanis He graduated from Stanford and Harvard, served as the youngest Fed governor at age 35.
  • ▶ 1:00:44 David Friedberg He's been working out of the Hoover Institute at, um, Stanford, and he's very well connected, and I think he's had great insight and perspective.

Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition Jan 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:50 David Sacks So there was a polling done by Stanford across countries, and they asked the citizens of all these different countries, uh, do you feel that the benefits of AI will be more beneficial or more harmful?

Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients Jan 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:07 Dr. Marty Makary Well, a cell or gene therapy can be developed in a lab at UCSF or Stanford, and are we going to require that they use the same manufacturing broad standards to do multiple batches

All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special Dec 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:13:07 David Sacks Well, I, I would agree with that one, but the one I meant, I would choose is that at Stanford, they said that if you're disabled, you get more time on tests, and you can kind of be unproctored, and kind of... 2 times in the scene

Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:15:07 Brad Gerstner Yeah, so the debate was at Stanford, sponsored by the economics departmental, whether or not billionaires should be allowed to exist in America.

Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower Nov 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:30 Jason Calacanis In fact, the woman who we are in partnership with, uh, with Sinabel, um, has a MBA from Stanford and Oxford and all these incredible schools. 2 times in the scene

Inside Orlando Bravo’s Private Equity Playbook: How to Build a Top Firm Oct 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:38 Chamath Palihapitiya And when you graduated from Stanford, you only got one job offer from, like, a three-person firm, basically.

Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact Oct 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:01 Joe Tsai You know, if they want to send their kids away to school, they want to go to the Ivy League, or Stanford, or, you know, all that.

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

Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech Oct 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:19 Ro Khanna Well, they come here, they study at Stanford, they study at Berkeley, they study at MIT or Harvard or at, uh, at a state college.

Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America Sep 24, 2025 · 1 mention

The College Crisis: Heads of Dartmouth & Berkeley Debate the Decline of US Universities Sep 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:10 Jason Calacanis A great career at Stanford, and that was during the politically correct era, and then we saw safe spaces, trigger words, and students feeling they were being harmed by words.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win Sep 9, 2025 · 1 mention

Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough Aug 29, 2025 · 2 mentions

Every Investor Needs To Understand This Concept - David Friedberg Aug 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:43 David Friedberg He bought Nvidia years ago on the thesis that these GPU chips would eventually be used for AI models because he did all his work at Stanford and distributed computing.

Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History Aug 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:19 Senator Eric Schmitt So they work with Stanford, they work with University of Washington to flag posts to work with social media companies.

AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken? Aug 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:21:55 David Friedberg He bought Nvidia years ago on the thesis that these GPU chips would eventually be used for AI models because he did all his work at Stanford and distributed computing.

Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO Jul 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03:17 Jason Calacanis The best way to determine, Friedberg, to answer your question, the best way to determine if a person can do a job, if you don't want to outsource it to a logo like Harvard or Stanford, which are, have worked in the past, is to watch them…

Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami Jun 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:05 Tony Robbins It's easy to rationalize that, but I'll tell you, you know, Stanford came to me during the COVID time, the period, and they came to me because two of their professors had gone through my Date With Destiny Center.
  • ▶ 24:36 Tony Robbins They're, they're at Stanford.

Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon Apr 19, 2025 · 1 mention

The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein Apr 11, 2025 · 1 mention

DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias Apr 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private Feb 22, 2025 · 1 mention

From Skeptic to Supporter: How This Billionaire Got ‘Red-Pilled’ by Trump Jan 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:29 Mark Pincus I, I teach this class at Stanford, and I taught two back-to-back on Monday, and I looked around, and I saw half the placards said, you know, she, her, you know, he, him, his, and I got a little pang of like, oh, do I have to watch what I'm…

Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs Jan 18, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 16:23 Mark Pincus I, I teach this class at Stanford, and I taught two back-to-back on Monday, and I looked around, and I saw half the placards said, you know, she, her, you know, he, him, his, and I got a little pang of like, oh, do I have to watch what I'm…
  • ▶ 1:19:23 Jason Calacanis This is a recent spike in unemployment among MBAs from top business schools like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. 4 times in the scene

Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC Dec 13, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:15 Jason Calacanis Went to Stanford with the boys.
  • ▶ 36:00 Keith Rabois So, you know, it's great that they're taking money, but think about it as like almost like Stanford takes money or the U S government funds basic research in some ways.
  • ▶ 53:39 Keith Rabois It's a little bit also, you see like the sports teams, like this happened at Stanford when Jim Harbaugh left.

2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties! Nov 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:00:08 Haralabos Voulgaris but I, I remember very specifically reading like the great Barrington declaration that came out written by some, you know, three very, very sharp physicians and epidemiologists from Harvard, I think Stanford and Oxford.

Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:37 David Friedberg And I don't know if you guys remember in the early 2000, there was a Stanford folding at home distributed computing project.

Bari Weiss | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 19, 2024 · 1 mention

Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For Sep 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:09 Peter Thiel And this was already the case when I was an undergraduate at Stanford in the late eighties.

"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230? Sep 6, 2024 · 1 mention

In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Aug 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:38 Reid Hoffman Yeah, I met, um, David, uh, because Peter had known him from Stanford and hired him in, um, and, you know, David, uh, very quickly, because he, you know, uh, has a, he has a strong learning curve as he plays these things, kind of got the…

Massive jobs revision, Kamala wealth tax, polls vs prediction markets, end of race-based admissions Aug 23, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 28:00 David Sacks I mean, first of all, these campuses- Tell us about your experience at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:24:15 David Sacks That's what he basically said this was, but it was a bunch of energy investors at Stanford.

Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive Aug 16, 2024 · 1 mention

The Besties Take Napa | All-In Special Jul 23, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:09 Jason Calacanis And so the hard work ethic, I think, was the key to a lot of my success because I just decided I'm just going to outwork everybody because I was coming not from Harvard or Stanford, but from Bayridge, Brooklyn, uh, and, you know, going to…

Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview Jul 10, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:56 Jonathan Haidt The, there's a, there's a great thinker who I, I know has talked about in Silicon Valley, René Girard, Frenchman who taught at Stanford.

500K Subscriber Livestream! | All-In Podcast Jun 25, 2024 · 1 mention

Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction? May 31, 2024 · 1 mention

GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity? May 17, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:07 David Friedberg And Stanford actually runs this massive multitask language understanding assessment. 2 times in the scene

Sheryl Sandberg, plus open-source AI gene editing explained May 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07:59 Jason Calacanis No, no, I'm just saying there are drug companies now that are realizing the efficacy at Johns Hopkins, Stanford, where they're doing these, and then they're trying to figure out how do we take something that's occurring naturally

E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more Mar 16, 2024 · 1 mention

E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more Dec 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:59 David Sacks And sure enough, just two years later, Twitter was banning people like Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford doctor for saying dissident things about COVID that turned out to be completely correct.

E150: Israel/Gaza escalating or not? EU censorship regime, Penn donors revolt, GLP-1 hype cycle Oct 20, 2023 · 1 mention

E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps Oct 13, 2023 · 1 mention

All-In Summit: Alexandra Botez takes on the Besties in a 1v4 simultaneous chess match Oct 2, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00 David Sacks Uh, she began streaming online chess content in 2016 as a, uh, uh, student at Stanford, where she studied international relations, and she and her younger sister, Andrea, man, or is it Andre, did I pronounce that right?
  • ▶ 21:57 David Friedberg Um, your, uh, you went to Stanford, right? 4 times in the scene

All-In Summit: "Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols" with Rob Henderson Oct 2, 2023 · 1 mention

All-In Summit: In conversation with Vinod Khosla Sep 26, 2023 · 1 mention

All-In Summit: In conversation with Larry Summers Sep 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:15 Larry Summers Almost any other institution in the society, nearly a 10th as successful as Stanford or Harvard, would have far more customers today than it did 50 years ago.

E140: LK-99, Sclerotic establishments, Fitch downgrades US debt, Trump indicted... again Aug 4, 2023 · 4 mentions

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

E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health Jul 9, 2023 · 2 mentions

E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more Jul 1, 2023 · 3 mentions

E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update Apr 14, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:08 Jason Calacanis And you're also referring, I think, to the Stanford and Google paper that was published this week.

E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset Mar 17, 2023 · 5 mentions

E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner Mar 3, 2023 · 1 mention

E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more Jan 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:58 Jason Calacanis That's why we've won so big historically is the, the combination of immigration and the inspiration that these entrepreneurs do on a global basis to get more entrepreneurs to come to this country, to go to Stanford, to start companies.

E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem Jan 13, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:52 Jason Calacanis And just reading from Stanford's quote on fair use, another important fair use factor is whether your use deprives the copyright owner of income or undermines a new or potential market for the copyrighted work. 2 times in the scene

E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ Dec 24, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:42 Elon Musk The, having the affiliation, organization affiliation, which I suspect you talked about, that was, uh, an idea of David's that was great, um, to, uh, you know, have organization affiliation, so you can know that somebody is, um, an actual…

E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more Dec 10, 2022 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 5:28 Jason Calacanis And then there were people who were banned from the trends blacklist, including a Stanford professor, Jay Bhattacharya. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:38 Jason Calacanis He's a Stanford professor. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:17 Chamath Palihapitiya Maybe, hey, Fauci, go talk to Jay because he's a Stanford prof.
  • ▶ 1:05:35 Jason Calacanis But they see all the accoutrements, you check all the boxes, your parents were Stanford, you went to MIT, and you are donating large sums of money, and you got this big table at the club, and you got a penthouse, everybody starts to feel,…

E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more Dec 3, 2022 · 3 mentions

E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security Sep 1, 2022 · 2 mentions

E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more Jun 30, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:30 Chamath Palihapitiya And then, you know, when you look at who his parents are, his parents are really, really smart, thoughtful people as well, two law professors at Stanford.

#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril Jun 23, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:31 Palmer Luckey In 1947, half of Stanford's engineering budget came from the Department of Defense. 2 times in the scene

#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias Jun 7, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 56:03 Chamath Palihapitiya So I didn't go to Stanford and I didn't work at Google, um, or Yahoo.
  • ▶ 1:15:34 unnamed speaker Um, so my question is, Amar talked about these, like, startup generating systems like Stanford or PayPal.

#AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2022 · 2 mentions

#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education Jun 2, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:54 Joe Lonsdale Stanford and Caltech actually found more intellectual expression and satisfaction, you know, in the entrepreneurship world than they did there.
  • ▶ 24:05 David Sacks Yeah, what basically happened is all those radicals who are being inculcated and trained and brainwashed at Stanford that we were reacting to, what, of, 25, 30 years ago, they all graduated, and then they went off into society and took…

#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders May 30, 2022 · 20 mentions

  • ▶ 5:24 Mar Hershenson Ok, so at the risk of being elitist, I am going to say that one of the closest machines of entrepreneurship is Stanford University. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:34 Mar Hershenson The first one is, I teach a class, um, at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:03 Mar Hershenson Ok, so this takes me to my second experiment, which is actually even more successful and has nothing to do with Stanford, ok, so there's no Stanford involved. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:03 Jason Calacanis And, you know, when you look at what happened at PayPal, and I'm really interested in hearing David's perspective on this, they got to see each other at Stanford, and 40% of the speakers have been to Stanford here at this event. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:51 David Sacks Peter recruited his friends who he had gone to college with at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:48 Mar Hershenson And actually at Stanford specifically, right? 4 times in the scene

#AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022 May 26, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 41:26 Keith Rabois Stanford and then Harvard, like pretty woke places, and all my professors in political science were super liberal, but I, I was conservative the whole time, and every one of my, you know, essays, if you read my final exams, they're all…
  • ▶ 1:06:13 Jason Calacanis We're going to end with Sachs telling us his most illustrative and funny story about Keith Raboi from Stanford. 2 times in the scene

E82: All-In Summit: Claire Cormier Thielke on China + Q&A with Flexport's Ryan Petersen May 24, 2022 · 1 mention

E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more Apr 9, 2022 · 2 mentions

E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner Mar 26, 2022 · 1 mention

E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more Feb 12, 2022 · 1 mention

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