token

also referred to as: tokens

8 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 12, 2022 by Jason Calacanis · across every show →

Everything said about token, oldest first

Nov 12, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Token investing will end as capital shifts to crypto corporations
“I think investing in the tokens is going to end investing in the corporation is going to begin and any of the tokens are going to be super regulated”
Jason Calacanis Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 58:40 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
Nov 12, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Chamath: Silicon Valley VCs taught founders how to launch tokens
“There was a lot of venture firms in Silicon Valley in this period of both not doing any work or diligence who also took the extra step and actually created classes and would teach teams how to create these tokens. Okay. And those artifacts, those video links a…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 52:26 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
Nov 12, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Chamath admits losing significant capital investing in altcoin tokens
“I've bought a bunch of these tokens that have massively depreciated in value. I think lots of investors have. You know, I kind of fell into it as well. Like I thought, wow, this is incredible. I get to buy these tokens. They do all of this cool stuff. They rep…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 57:33 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
Dec 24, 2022 bearish
Prediction Held up
Calacanis: SEC will increase crypto token prosecutions after FTX collapse
“And I think there'll be a subsequent domino to fall, which is Now that Gary G, head of the SEC, has FTX and the FTT tokens as the grift, he's gonna go down the list of other tokens and he is going to start doing more prosecutions of grifts in crypto.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 42:00 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
May 8, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Palihapitiya: AI token buyers face ROI reckoning in 500 days
“I think we have kind of call it 500 days where you just got to be net long. But I think it's literally in the hundreds of days from now, 500, you're going to have to have an important reckoning moment. The people that are paying for all these tokens need to se…”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 8, 2026 ▶ 1:09:19 Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
May 15, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Always-on multimodal AI devices will increase token usage 1,000-fold
“These persistent hardware devices, the watch, the ear pieces are going to know your entire reality. They're going to monitor your entire desktop, and this is going to lead to a use of tokens that would be a thousand times what user business users are currently…”
Jason Calacanis May 15, 2026 ▶ 57:15 Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
Jul 3, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2029
Calacanis: AI token costs will drop 90% annually for three years
“The cost of tokens, Freeburg, is going to go down 90% a year for the next three years.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 30:24 AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
Jul 10, 2026 positive
Insight
Calacanis: Unlimited tokens in AI models enable unlimited reasoning
“Unlimited tokens, I believe, means unlimited reasoning.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 10:12 Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
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