Star Wars
also referred to as: star wars franchise
includes Star Wars Stories Untold, Star Wars: Andor
5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 16, 2023 by Jason Calacanis · said 60 times in 31 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Jason Calacanis (44), David Sacks (6), David Friedberg (3), Chamath Palihapitiya (3), Elon Musk (1), Caleb Ward (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2025 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- 12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- 2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
- E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 13 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward
- E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
- E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
- E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about Star Wars, oldest first
Dec 16, 2023 bullish
Jan 13, 2024 negative
Friedberg: Star Wars is the most anti-technology cultural influence since the 1970s
“I think Star Wars has been like the most anti-technology effector in society since the seventies, because Star Wars is all about the, I've said this before, but the Ewoks destroying the Death Star and like the no tech overcoming the oppressor big tech.”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Aug 9, 2025 negative
Friedberg: Star Wars is built on an anti-technology, anti-progress worldview
“I remain adamant in my point of view that the entire Star Wars Franchise is built around an anti-technology anti-utopian view of the world, anti-progress, and the Death Star is the ultimate manifestation of technology, and of course, it's used for evil. That's…”