TikTok, every mention
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every year anyone Jason Calacanis 254Chamath Palihapitiya 96David Friedberg 82David Sacks 47Brad Gerstner 25Eric Swalwell 14Thomas Laffont 10Chris Williamson 10Jonathan Haidt 8Peter Thiel 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where TikTok comes up
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 1:20:05 Chamath Palihapitiya I hope TikTok and YouTube do the same thing, and it'll make the life of a parent 2 times in the scene
Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley
- ▶ 14:58 Garrett Langley I mean, to your point on vandalism, it's pretty sad because these individuals are getting kind of, um, amped up from on TikTok and on Instagram to go take action. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 1:37:31 Brad Gerstner Or frankly, whether it's the Intel shares or whether it's the tick tock fee, I now have a place where all of those wins achieved by this administration can go.
Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?!
- ▶ 45:36 Jason Calacanis It used to be a paradigm of you follow people, you build your filter, you have your list, you spend a lot of time curating that, and then TikTok comes out with their For You page FYP, YouTube goes full algorithm, and now X has gone…
Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
- ▶ 12:25 Spencer Pratt So I go on Tik Tok live
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 5:46 Jason Calacanis That's the kind of work it's doing, and then we have it looking at our YouTube stats, we have it looking at our Instagram, our TikTok stats, and then trying to tell us which clips are going the most viral, which ones have the most…
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 26:17 David Friedberg I actually like watching videos of police wearing body cams on YouTube and TikTok.
Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
- ▶ 6:59 Jason Calacanis Build your own, build your own Facebook, build your own Instagram, build your own Twitter slash X, uh, TikTok, whatever you'd like to build, and you can have whatever standards you like on your platforms.
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 1:23:33 David Friedberg These guys went, these guys zigged where we zagged, but one of my weird, like things that I watch on TikTok that I got stuck on and TikTok just keeps showing me them is these auditing videos. 2 times in the scene
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 1:14 David Sacks Look, if you actually look at the data, if you look at what kids are doing, it's so much more interactive and engaging for them to talk to their friends on Snap or to watch videos on TikTok.
Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- ▶ 9:47 Chamath Palihapitiya And then separately, it's now becoming about shorter form video, and you see that with things like Instagram reels and TikTok. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:12 Jason Calacanis Buying TikTok. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:17 Chamath Palihapitiya Nobody knows who the CEO of TikTok is. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:25 Chamath Palihapitiya Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, all banned until you turn 16.
AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment
- ▶ 1:15 Chamath Palihapitiya Can you maybe walk us through the last four or five years of the evolution of Endeavor and, you know, your process of first leaving, building a business, then scaling it up and just all of that action, the TikTok of it all?
- ▶ 4:50 Ari Emanuel You know, stuff on Instagram and TikTok.
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- ▶ 1:22:03 Jason Calacanis You just described TikTok.
Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
- ▶ 9:06 Joe Tsai The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, they're doing e-commerce.
- ▶ 12:57 Chamath Palihapitiya Yeah, it was, they actually released it, but, um, one of the core products, TikTok, it's a fundamentally different product here than in, than in China, and because of that regulation and a focus on the welfare of its citizens, there's,… 3 times in the scene
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 7:08 Jason Calacanis They do like the YouTube, the TikTok, etc.
- ▶ 40:07 Jason Calacanis Do we think this is like a TikTok competitor? 2 times in the scene
Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
- ▶ 47:59 Keller Rinaudo Clifton And we were trying to figure out why that is, and basically it just turns out that having a robot deliver whatever you need to your home in less than 10 minutes is really good content for TikTok. 2 times in the scene
H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
- ▶ 34:34 Chamath Palihapitiya When you see women taking acetaminophen in this performative art way, basically, like, try to, like, pwn Donald Trump, and it's all over TikTok, and it's all over X, I just think it's reckless, and I think it solves nothing.
- ▶ 50:26 David Sacks You saw it on TikTok.
Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire
- ▶ 50:26 Jason Calacanis Oracle is now the heavy favorite to acquire TikTok. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:05 Jason Calacanis They put a slash, acquire TikTok. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:38 David Friedberg Remember, it's TikTok, it's TikTok US. 2 times in the scene
Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
- ▶ 11:27 Anatoly Yakovenko I personally think that you could build a competitive product to TikTok with crypto if the magic, you caught that kind of lightning in a bottle, because the monetization mechanism with crypto is so different than the ad-based one.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win
- ▶ 33:45 unnamed speaker Are they trying to destabilize our country with fentanyl, with TikTok, and do you have concerns about that?
Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
- ▶ 55:40 Senator Eric Schmitt It's not gonna all happen tomorrow, but that's really what this diplomacy, in this TikTok age that we live in, I think we think it's instant gratification, but diplomacy is difficult when you're dealing with other countries with their own…
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 28:03 Ben Shapiro I, I just look at how China has, has utilized TikTok as a, as a PSYOP weapon in a myriad of ways, gathering data, putting out its own propaganda.
- ▶ 29:08 Jason Calacanis Okay, so people are not spending too much time on, uh, on the TikTok. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:01 Jason Calacanis Oh, and TikTok, the example you just gave, competing with and, and using that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:01 David Friedberg There was this TikTok rant that went viral this week about this woman that's like, why does my rent go up every year?
Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
- ▶ 44:23 Jason Calacanis Reciprocity, TikTok, the whole shebang. 6 times in the scene
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 11:35 Jason Calacanis It seems like a group of people, according to this article, have backed to the tune of 1.6 billion, a large number of organizations to scare the bejesus out of everybody and make YouTube videos, TikToks,
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 7:32 Sundar Pichai Like TikTok has come in. 2 times in the scene
All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
- ▶ 11:53 David Friedberg It was almost like a new type of media that was different than traditional long form media, TikTok type content.
- ▶ 16:58 Colin Rosenblum I would say even opening up TikTok, the first couple of TikToks you see are gonna show you what works.
- ▶ 1:14:01 Chris Williamson It doesn't seem like TikTok creators are able to convert. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:14 Samir Chaudry He started as a TikTok creator, up there for an hour and a half by himself doing comedy.
- ▶ 1:32:27 Chris Williamson You know how we were saying, it's gonna be lovely if there's a counter movement against the TikTokification, very short-form video. 2 times in the scene
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
- ▶ 27:08 Chamath Palihapitiya You're gonna just turn their energy off so that you can fund a data center so that the TikTok algorithm is better.
- ▶ 1:10:17 Jason Calacanis And on TikTok. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:38 Chamath Palihapitiya It was initially on TikTok, actually,
JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- ▶ 12:52 Naval Ravikant He's built TikTok for nerds, and we're all in it, but normally I try to ignore the news.
- ▶ 1:12:37 Naval Ravikant So I'll subsidize TikTok.
- ▶ 1:39:42 Chamath Palihapitiya So you think like you can scroll TikTok and fall asleep is fine?
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 53:13 Jason Calacanis Anchored by potentially the TikTok shares that Trump said he wanted to get half of by giving a license. 4 times in the scene
AI Czar David Sacks Explains the DeepSeek Freak Out
- ▶ 1:08 David Sacks A huge part of TikTok's audience, for example, is international. 2 times in the scene
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 18:29 David Sacks A huge part of TikTok's audience, for example, is international. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:06 Jason Calacanis Also the TikTok headquarters.
Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
- ▶ 32:31 Jason Calacanis They suspended the TikTok ban for 75 days. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:38 Thomas Laffont I'm happy to chat about TikTok. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:50 David Friedberg You guys made a fantastic investment in ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok.
- ▶ 45:46 Chamath Palihapitiya I just want to go back to the TikTok thing. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:27 Jason Calacanis Kids are substituting, whether it's TikTok or Netflix or YouTube time for time with their friends, time doing physical activities. 3 times in the scene
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 1:19:43 Jason Calacanis You know, in a stage, in a set, and then releasing it on TikTok, and then it's not an actual bit, it's like super highly produced.
- ▶ 2:45:24 Akash Singh Uh, Akash Singh on Instagram, TikTok, all that.
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
- ▶ 43:49 Eric Swalwell So the Supreme Court was not saying whether we should ban or not ban TikTok. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:13 Jason Calacanis What are your thoughts on, um, TikTok, uh, going dark in the last 24 hours here?
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 1:08:34 Jason Calacanis TikTok's future is in question right now. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:20 David Friedberg Any thoughts, uh, Dave, as we wrap on the TikTok? 2 times in the scene
2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- ▶ 52:11 Jason Calacanis Last year, my prediction was that ByteDance would go public or TikTok would get divested or some version of this.
- ▶ 1:18:00 David Friedberg But I do think that the Trump administration, particularly with their recent request on TikTok being, uh, the ban on TikTok being kind of halted. 2 times in the scene
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 10:21 unnamed speaker From the cringiest of TikToks to black Nazis and an Aussie dance legend.
DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- ▶ 1:26:15 Chamath Palihapitiya Nobody, nobody raises their hand and says, gosh, this piece of enterprise software that I use in my day to day life is as good as Instagram or TikTok.
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 13:19 Jason Calacanis Jacob's position on TikTok, which we'll get to in this show, very different than some other people in the administration, and even Trump himself flip-flopped a little bit on that.
- ▶ 54:32 Jason Calacanis TikTok is scrambling right now after an appeals court upheld the January.
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 26:44 David Sacks So, if these people stay in control of the party, and these are the people who you're seeing having a mental breakdown on TikTok, they're posting all the videos, they're insulting the electorate, and let's face it, it's not just on TikTok,… 2 times in the scene
Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- ▶ 54:27 Jason Calacanis Am I correct, Freeberg, with algorithms, whether it's TikTok, YouTubes, etc?
Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 47:07 Chamath Palihapitiya And where is the same response to ChatGPT that you had to X, or that you had to Snapchat, or that you had to TikTok?
- ▶ 1:03:44 Jason Calacanis Moving on, Pew just published some really interesting research on TikTok. 10 times in the scene
Senator Kyrsten Sinema | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 9:33 Kyrsten Sinema Even if those individuals don't get shit done, like they don't return any results, but they will make a TikTok telling you how your view is so right.
Michael Ovitz | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 21:04 Chamath Palihapitiya Everyone's kind of consuming different Tik Toks and different Instagrams, but everyone seems to coalesce around one.
- ▶ 31:32 Michael Ovitz He didn't look at TikTok, which none of us should look at anyways, but that's a different issue.
Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
- ▶ 9:28 Peter Thiel I met the TikTok CEO about, about a year ago, and, um, you know, I not, maybe I wouldn't have said this now, but what I told him and what I felt was very honest advice was, you know, you don't need to worry about the US. 4 times in the scene
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 52:29 Jason Calacanis A panel of California judges has ruled that Section two-thirty does not protect TikTok's algorithm in the case of the death, tragically, of a ten-year-old girl.
- ▶ 1:34:38 Jason Calacanis TikTok, the all in pod.
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 2:10:30 Jason Calacanis Follow the show, x.com slash theallinpod, TikTok theallinpod, Instagram theallinpod,
Massive jobs revision, Kamala wealth tax, polls vs prediction markets, end of race-based admissions
- ▶ 1:30:28 Jason Calacanis Follow the show, x.com slash theallinpod, TikTok theallinpod, Instagram theallinpod,
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 17:56 Jason Calacanis If you look at the competition for Google and advertising, you got Meta, TikTok, and Amazon, which have very, very significant advertising businesses, and then like a bunch of new players, um, which are referred to basically as the…
- ▶ 1:44:47 Jason Calacanis Follow the show, x.com slash theallinpod, TikTok theallinpod, Instagram theallinpod,
Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- ▶ 1:40:59 Jason Calacanis Follow the show, x.com slash theallinpod, TikTok, theallinpod, Instagram, theallinpod,
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 1:24:26 Jason Calacanis TikTok, all, underscore, in, underscore, talk.
Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 7:17 Jason Calacanis And that's really TikTok. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:29 Jonathan Haidt Is that TikTok and then YouTube shorts are the ones copying it, uh, you know, Instagram reels. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:50 Jason Calacanis You know, when you're doing TikTok, there is an addiction here that to Skinner, to your Skinner point, variable interval, and it's variable reward.
- ▶ 27:12 David Friedberg Now my reference library is four to six TikTok videos a minute.
- ▶ 29:09 Jonathan Haidt Why are you on, why are you spending so much time on TikTok and Instagram and five other platforms every day? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:18 Jason Calacanis These, I watch these kids who are addicted to TikTok and addicted to video games.
500K Subscriber Livestream! | All-In Podcast
- ▶ 30:30 Jason Calacanis When you do find the one thing you love, building your social media around that, your entire online identity, whether you have a podcast yourself, or you make TikTok videos, or your socials, you know, blog, substack, beehive, whatever your…
Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser
- ▶ 17:54 Jason Calacanis He's flipped his position on TikTok and flipped his position on crypto.
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 50:27 Chamath Palihapitiya Is he on TikTok or no?
- ▶ 1:24:08 Jason Calacanis TikTok is all underscore in underscore talk.
Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?
- ▶ 1:46:23 Jason Calacanis TikTok is all underscore in underscore talk.
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- ▶ 37:31 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, if I look inside of compute and look at the adjacent categories, they're not going to all of a sudden start a competitor to TikTok, right?
- ▶ 1:25:34 Jason Calacanis And the number one television show is essentially a TikTok called Ouch My Balls.
- ▶ 1:28:47 Jason Calacanis TikTok is all underscore in underscore talk.
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 1:39:55 Jason Calacanis TikTok is all underscore in underscore talk.