Starbucks, every mention
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every year anyone Jason Calacanis 44David Friedberg 26David Sacks 4Chamath Palihapitiya 3Andrew Ross Sorkin 3
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Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 1:19:29 Jason Calacanis If you look at what Starbucks did when Schultz was running it, he gave people a job worth having, and he took pride in taking the lowest paid people in the organization and give them, giving them a living wage. 2 times in the scene
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 48:23 Jason Calacanis The idea of going to a cashier at a fast food restaurant, which I know you guys don't go to all that often, or a Starbucks, the idea that you would interact with a cashier has been going away slowly because it's just consumers don't even…
Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
- ▶ 1:07:55 Jason Calacanis Howard Schultz, CEO, uh, longtime CEO of Starbucks has bailed and he's gone to Miami. 3 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- ▶ 1:12:38 Jason Calacanis Because they're not going to get the job as a cashier at the Starbucks anymore because that's going AI too.
Live Poker Match!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon
- ▶ 20:55 Jason Calacanis It's on the table from Starbucks.
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 4:43 Andrew Ross Sorkin And, and all of a sudden brokerage houses are opening up, you know, on the corners of streets the way we see Starbucks today.
H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
- ▶ 1:11:29 David Friedberg We had big drop off because a lot of network administrators, so the people that run the Wi-Fi at Starbucks or on your public bus and subway or in your, you know, office,
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 29:13 Jason Calacanis TikTok has a bunch of, like, young socialist New Yorkers in communist t-shirts going to Luckin Coffee and talking about how Starbucks, you know, is, you know, are capitalists and that they're glad that the Chinese company Luckin, which… 4 times in the scene
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 24:59 Andrew Ross Sorkin I'm talking about the McDonald's of the world, the Starbucks of the world, the Nikes of the world. 2 times in the scene
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
- ▶ 36:13 Jason Calacanis If, and we're going to talk about Starbucks later, and I think that's a big part of the Starbucks problem. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:51 David Friedberg So we're going to wrap up with Starbees.
- ▶ 1:27:42 David Friedberg And I don't know if you can get the brand to be any more maximal than Starbucks. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:42 David Sacks I'm just not an expert on Starbucks.
Dave Portnoy: How He Bought Back Barstool for $1 | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 40:28 Jason Calacanis You know, years ago, Starbucks set up a, a corporate strategy.
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 28:11 Jason Calacanis Starbucks CEO is out after a year and a half of underperformance.
- ▶ 28:14 Jason Calacanis Starbee's CEO, Laxman Narsim, stepped down after just 16 months on the job. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:09 David Friedberg Certainly true for Starbucks, certainly true 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:21 David Friedberg Can you show the Starbucks clip? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:28 David Friedberg Starbucks, which we just talked about, their stock was at 90 dollars pre-COVID, and today, 93 bucks. 4 times in the scene
Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- ▶ 37:58 Jason Calacanis I think it's a good point, but I do see McDonald's, Starbucks, and some of those consumer retailers are taking steps right now to right size their businesses and offer five dollar meals or three dollar coffee.
E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
- ▶ 49:32 Jason Calacanis No, I got a gift card for you from Starbucks. 2 times in the scene
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 59:17 Jason Calacanis I don't know if you guys have used the Starbucks app or the, you know, I just had the sweet green CEO on the pod and man, you can, the fidelity and the, and the nuance of what you want to order is absurd.
E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- ▶ 46:53 Jason Calacanis You have Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders giving, you know, the CEO of Starbucks a hot time when he doubled the pay of the minimum wage, gave them health care. 2 times in the scene
E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
- ▶ 47:01 David Sacks That is the payoff to the art history major from Amherst who ends up being a barista at Starbucks, you know, or
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 54:18 David Friedberg And so you know, for us to be like, you know, four guys commentating at Starbucks, I think is a bit of a mistake because
E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
- ▶ 10:08 Jason Calacanis That's just going to Starbucks. 2 times in the scene
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 43:10 Chamath Palihapitiya Starbucks or you work at McDonald's and you're making 17 to 20 dollars an hour.
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 39:04 Chamath Palihapitiya Starbucks moved their minimum wage up.
E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- ▶ 8:16 David Sacks People go to Starbucks in the morning, and they, they drink, like, four, yeah, 400 plus calories. 2 times in the scene
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:21:04 David Friedberg You sound like the old guy at Starbucks.
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 1:17:03 Jason Calacanis You know, to satellite images of the target parking lot or put people as spotters outside of Starbucks and count the people coming in and out.
E46: False Ivermectin narratives, regulatory grift, wartime mentality in solving issues & more
- ▶ 45:00 David Friedberg And we sound like a bunch of old guys sitting at the Starbucks.
E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 38:33 Jason Calacanis Or it could be a free market and people could go work at Starbucks or for Postmates and get paid more.
E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
- ▶ 57:11 Chamath Palihapitiya And we trick people because like we, we send them down the path of getting a 200,000 dollar art history degree, and then they end up working at a Starbucks