Texas, every mention
228 scenes · ← back to Texas
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Jason Calacanis 175David Sacks 47David Friedberg 35Chamath Palihapitiya 35Brooke Rollins 13Gavin Baker 12Phil Hellmuth 6Michael Dell 6James Litinsky 6Dino Mavrucas 6
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Texas comes up
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
- ▶ 12:14 Jason Calacanis I think it was more, I moved to Texas this year.
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 1:21 Joe Lonsdale Doing great here in Texas today.
- ▶ 18:06 Jason Calacanis Texas and a couple of the states where they have lower income tax and, and more consumption tax.
- ▶ 52:14 Jason Calacanis I'm going to save every animal in, in central Texas.
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 1:43:12 David Friedberg You live in Texas.
- ▶ 2:17:06 Mark Pincus No, he said he's moving on to Texas.
Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- ▶ 0:08 Jason Calacanis Trump, and we have a very special guest joining us on our coverage, Senator Ted Cruz from the great state, now my great state, of Texas. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11 Jason Calacanis Um, having lived in New York and grown up there now, and then done 20 years, uh, in California now, my second year in Texas, or starting my second year, um, it's amazing to me that you're allowed to build things in Texas, like homes or… 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:44 Chamath Palihapitiya Texas is one. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:06 Jason Calacanis And in Texas, it's just extraordinary that you've figured out that you could prioritize the people not committing crime, and not cater to the people committing crime. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:25 Jason Calacanis But let's, let's double click on immigration since the, the great state of Texas has to deal with this more than anybody. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Senator Ted Cruz I think there is also a mandate to end the federal government's war on energy, on Texas oil and gas.
- ▶ 29:11 Senator Ted Cruz I'm thrilled that he's a Texan. 3 times in the scene
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 50:20 Chamath Palihapitiya This is parts of Texas. 2 times in the scene
LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
- ▶ 44:52 Cyan Banister So their number one state out of the 11 that they serve is Florida, followed by Texas, which, you know, has tornadoes and things like that.
- ▶ 1:00:09 Jason Calacanis And he made the signal that he was going to move the trust and safety team out of California, which he feels maybe was too far to the left, as we were just discussing in the previous story, and move it to the great state of Texas.
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 54:08 Jason Calacanis Well, and Amazon in, I believe it's Texas, is actually doing these now.
- ▶ 1:30:04 Jason Calacanis If you look at a place like Texas, two years in a row, housing values have gone down.
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 12:40 Jason Calacanis So we, we moved the North Pole down to Austin, Texas. 2 times in the scene
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 55:55 Keith Rabois People in China who on the record have said they had access and have had access to American user data, which he swore to under oath to the Congress that they were storing the data in Texas somewhere, and that there was no possibility that,…
New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 19:12 Gavin Baker Texas is the number one solar producer in the country, and it's not because everybody there is more environmentally conscious. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:06 Gavin Baker Yeah, well, I would just say Texas is the Singapore of America, you know, and it is putting pressure on the rest of America, and I don't say that just because I grew up in Texas, um, it's just a fact. 2 times in the scene
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 38:11 Jason Calacanis Yeah, I don't, hey man, I'm in Texas.
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 57:00 David Sacks Well, it's John Thune versus Cornyn from Texas, and Mike Lee has been sort of agitating.
- ▶ 1:40:11 Jason Calacanis And that's been an issue here in Texas. 4 times in the scene
2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!
- ▶ 26:46 Jason Calacanis Uh, lots of high profile people coming on tonight and we are sitting here at, uh, nine 30 Texas time, 10 30 in New York.
- ▶ 2:05:09 Haralabos Voulgaris That, you know, I think there was like a point when they, when, when, um, they re they filed their Supreme court brief in Texas and there was like spelling errors and punctuation errors in the brief.
Dueling Presidential interviews, SpaceX’s big catch, Robotaxis, Uber buying Expedia?, Nuclear NIMBY
- ▶ 53:40 Jason Calacanis I mean, I think there's plenty of land outside of the triangle here in Texas, where there is no density and you could put one and I'd have no problem with there being one, a hundred miles, 200 miles.
Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 17:17 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, it's a terrible precedent to set because if you do it for Florida, then you'll have to do it in Texas and Louisiana and Mississippi. 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- ▶ 2:51 Mark Cuban And, you know, being from Texas, I knew people there, and they were like, look, we need somebody who understands PCs and computers and software.
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 5:25 Jason Calacanis It's just a Texas short podcaster who's short and stout, and they look similar.
Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 15:04 Jason Calacanis But talk about the difference between California and Texas, where you and I now reside. 3 times in the scene
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 57:32 Reid Hoffman It's not quite the same thing as price capping, and apparently there's laws that affect even in Florida, right, or in Texas, uh, where some of, you know, uh, you guys are living.
- ▶ 1:04:01 Jason Calacanis Can't get abortions here in Texas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:05:58 Jason Calacanis Good news is, I'm in Texas, so I can put in my, my Bobby Kennedy vote as a protest vote, and it doesn't make a difference, and
Massive jobs revision, Kamala wealth tax, polls vs prediction markets, end of race-based admissions
- ▶ 1:09:22 Chamath Palihapitiya If you said California was the United States, and Texas and Florida were, I'll make up two different countries, Malta and Dubai. 2 times in the scene
Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
- ▶ 2:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Hey, did you announce that you're you've moved to Texas?
- ▶ 23:11 Jason Calacanis This took place between November of 2020, October of 2023, 3000 low-income adults in Texas and Illinois making
Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
- ▶ 35:21 Jason Calacanis In other words, they're targeting X, YouTube, Facebook, Meta, those kind of sites, and they would require those platforms to notify users if their posts are removed or altered, and the platforms would have to make general disclosures about… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:37 Chamath Palihapitiya I'm pretty sure Texas is going to ban incognito mode. 5 times in the scene
In conversation with President Trump
- ▶ 29:44 Donald J. Trump I mean, if you look at Ohio, I would say it was a more liberal vote than people would have thought, and you could say that for Kansas, and then you look at Texas, it was a different story, but the people of the states have got that issue…
Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser
- ▶ 23:41 Jason Calacanis And then moving Tesla's incorporation from Delaware to Texas. 3 times in the scene
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 27:38 Jason Calacanis And this speaks to this decel versus acceleration movement that we see here in Silicon Valley, and this is what we see in Texas, Florida, UAE, Riyadh, Doha.
- ▶ 58:39 Jason Calacanis A little bit of jurisdiction shopping or placing of companies and products continues, and Texas is very hot in this regard. 4 times in the scene
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- ▶ 58:20 Chamath Palihapitiya And the lowest county is Jim Hogg County of Texas, which has a score of 2.25.
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 22:56 Jason Calacanis They're looking to reincorporate in Texas, leaving Delaware for obvious reasons.
- ▶ 37:45 Jason Calacanis We should definitely have Deutsch on the pod at some point to talk about this, but imagine these, um, like in Texas, they keep having the grids go down and in Australia, they have the grids go down.
E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more
- ▶ 1:28:13 David Friedberg The problem is now that Florida's done this, I guarantee you're gonna see Texas, which is a huge ranching state,
E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
- ▶ 23:36 Chamath Palihapitiya But if you look at, for example, Business Insider, it's really three states, Texas, California, and New York.
- ▶ 35:47 Chamath Palihapitiya I think it probably also led in part to Texas suing the federal government.
- ▶ 39:24 David Friedberg Is Texas going to secede from the union sex? 11 times in the scene
E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- ▶ 16:06 Chamath Palihapitiya I guess the simple thought exercise is what do we think the outcome would have been had this trial happened in Dallas, Texas?
- ▶ 59:05 Jason Calacanis This is across two cases in Texas and Connecticut, and here is Jones in his own words on the Sandy Hook parents.
E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
- ▶ 27:17 Eric Adams This is horrific when you think about, uh, what, uh, the governor, uh, is doing, the governor of Texas, but we are going to set the right message, the right tone of being here for these families. 4 times in the scene
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- ▶ 4:24 Jason Calacanis No, it's a Texas thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:09 Jason Calacanis And he lives in Texas, well-known public, but he's in the Austin area.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:24:55 Jason Calacanis All you have to do, all you have to do, Gurley, is follow what you're doing down there in Texas, which has, is it the highest renewable energy percentage of any state now is Texas? 3 times in the scene
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 1:12:55 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In North Dakota, Montana, and Texas, we have enough wind energy to produce five times the amount of our entire grid.
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 19:37 Jason Calacanis When you go to the Gigafactory in Texas, when you see what's happening here at Starbase, it should let you know that this is still the greatest country in the world with the greatest entrepreneurs.
- ▶ 26:57 Jason Calacanis So I drove 19 hours is somewhere in Texas, Houston or something.
E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 35:11 Jason Calacanis Uh, or a place, or if you're gonna stay in the United States, you need to get to Wyoming or Texas or somewhere that explicitly allows Bitcoin, because the closer you are to the United States banking system, what happened to Silicon Valley…
- ▶ 1:31:01 Jason Calacanis I've talked to Elon about that, but the idea that you could have a rocket ship take off from Texas and then be in Tokyo, you know, like half an hour minutes later is wild.
E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
- ▶ 1:26:30 Jason Calacanis He wrote a note saying we're coming for you, I think, on, you have to look into the case, but he was sentenced by a Republican judge from Texas, and he had made threats, written threats, and put them on the desks of folks, and he was one…
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 27:50 Brad Gerstner Now, a wealthy family as an LP could move their allocations around really quickly, but if you're Texas or you're Ohio or you're a sovereign wealth fund, you're betting on the arc of value creation.
E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
- ▶ 6:39 Chamath Palihapitiya The Texas version of this exact lawsuit already was thrown out of federal court.
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- ▶ 20:06 Jason Calacanis Uh, the US judge in Texas, I'm not sure you can tell me if this is legit or, uh, or not.
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 1:25:18 David Friedberg So I think that the tax rate in California is high enough now that we all have friends, friends in our poker group who have left for the state of Texas or the state of Florida, where there are lower tax rates and where they feel like… 4 times in the scene
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- ▶ 1:01:29 David Sacks There was a related case in the Fifth Circuit in Texas where, do you guys see this, uh, Fifth Circuit decision where Texas passed a law imposing common carrier restrictions on social media companies. 4 times in the scene
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 58:19 Jason Calacanis Look at Texas.
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 29:18 David Sacks Look, there are pro-choice Republicans in California, but all Newsom has to do is point to what's happening in Texas.
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 19:15 David Sacks You had, um, Mayra Flores get elected in that Texas seat.
#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 15:38 Antonio Gracias And we give, let's say, five hundred billion total, two hundred fifty billion in, in low cost loans to the energy patch for drilling in places like Texas, Louisiana, and an equal amount to green energy.
#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
- ▶ 4:59 Joe Lonsdale Texas vocational schools, uh, were really underperforming seven years ago.
#AIS: MP Materials CEO James Litinsky on rare earths, supply chain, and energy independence
- ▶ 11:24 James Litinsky We're after actually have already broken ground at a magnetics facility in Fort Worth, Texas, and this is a scale deal.
- ▶ 26:43 James Litinsky Oh, the GM thing's in, in Texas. 3 times in the scene
#AIS: Divvy Homes CEO Adena Hefets breaks down the state of the US housing market
- ▶ 14:56 Adena Hefets Our biggest ones are Georgia, Texas, and Florida.
E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- ▶ 1:12:27 Jason Calacanis Um, I, I, we, we would be remiss if we didn't talk about, uh, at least for this last segment, about the tragedy in Uvalde, Uvalde, Texas, uh, 80 miles west of San Antonio on Tuesday, 19 elementary kids.
#AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 5:14 Antonio Garcia Martinez Ukraine is the size of Texas.
E82: All-In Summit: Claire Cormier Thielke on China + Q&A with Flexport's Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 11:47 Claire Cormier Thielke You know, Texas is gonna get one in the year twenty-ninety.
Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
- ▶ 51:58 Elon Musk It's like a little corner of Texas or Utah entire country.
- ▶ 56:35 Jason Calacanis Hey, you know, listen, I, I know you're super busy, but I wanted to ask you about the move to Texas, because I've been thinking about it, uh, Austin.
E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein
- ▶ 14:18 Amy Howe Then the issue does go back to the states, uh, is the way that most people think of it, and each state, whether it's Mississippi or Texas or Oklahoma or California, can decide for itself whether or not they want to allow abortions, and if…
- ▶ 35:05 Tom Goldstein No, no, because all that happened is that a court clerk in rural Texas says, I refuse to, uh, sign this marriage certificate. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:41 David Sacks That would have maybe invalidated just that Texas law, but threw it back to the legislature so that they could then work out the issue.
E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more
- ▶ 51:48 Chamath Palihapitiya Think of the times that, for example, in Texas, where there is a massive freeze,
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 28:10 Jason Calacanis I think I saw a governor Abbott was pitching people on, hey, just send your containers to Texas were cheaper and more central in the country.
E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- ▶ 21:37 David Sacks It's states like Florida and Texas and Tennessee, and on and on it goes at the huge expense of California and New York. 2 times in the scene
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 48:52 David Sacks Peter Pham had a really good tweet, uh, just the other day, maybe you guys can dig it up, where he had a friend visit him from Texas.
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 1:23:19 Chamath Palihapitiya In Texas.
E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- ▶ 1:15:31 Jason Calacanis So then if Colorado or Texas or Florida had a difference of opinion about psychedelics, about
- ▶ 1:21:19 Jason Calacanis He could play in Texas or Houston.
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 2:50 Jason Calacanis Texas. 5 times in the scene
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 24:27 David Sacks He was, you know, talking about what was happening in Texas with abortion.
- ▶ 29:42 Jason Calacanis They are, they're in competition with, with Florida and Texas. 2 times in the scene
E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- ▶ 34:42 Jason Calacanis David Sachs, are you in support of Texas's abortion ban? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:33 David Sacks Do you want to, all right, should we go to Texas? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:54 Chamath Palihapitiya If this stays in Texas and doesn't get outside of Texas, you will have this specific thing hold and stand. 2 times in the scene
E39: West coast super drought & climate crisis, Nuclear virtue signaling, chaos in SF & more
- ▶ 58:25 Jason Calacanis I'm moving to Texas or to Florida.
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 1:09:05 David Sacks Bush, you know, he, he basically won reelection in Texas two years before he ran for president, and on the heels of that victory, he was able to make the case, look, I just got reelected.
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 1:15:47 Chamath Palihapitiya What played out in Texas that affected folks a few months ago, I think will some version of that will happen, um, in many places in the US.