Twitter, every mention
233 scenes, the whole family · ← back to Twitter
every year anyone Jason Calacanis 186David Sacks 126David Friedberg 104Chamath Palihapitiya 61Elon Musk 37Brad Gerstner 14Senator Eric Schmitt 9Michael Shellenberger 8Balaji Srinivasan 3Antonio Garcia Martinez 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Twitter comes up
AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
- ▶ 21:55 David Sacks The White House told, you know, it was then Twitter and Facebook that these accounts are dangerous, disinformation is dangerous, and people who had alternative or dissident viewpoints on the origin
Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley
- ▶ 47:55 Jason Calacanis Uh, X and Twitter had like political, you know, nonsense and like people trying to subvert democracy.
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 51:24 David Sacks Bending spoons can go in here and do what Elon did at Twitter.
China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan
- ▶ 43:31 Vib Altakar Um, you can, you can reach out on Twitter, LinkedIn, whatever you want.
Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
- ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker I have so many friends that were texting and people obviously were tweeting about it.
SpaceX-Cursor Deal, SaaS Debt Bomb, New Apple CEO, SPLC Indictment, Colon Cancer Spike
- ▶ 18:02 Jason Calacanis Uh, people for XAI or for Twitter that were not in his mold and they're clearly getting aligned.
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 4:10 Jason Calacanis Nick, throw up that tweet I did. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 19:40 Jason Calacanis It's no longer Chris Saka representing Twitter and, you know, doing an orderly thing or Elon doing every six months an orderly thing where SpaceX keeps control of it.
Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
- ▶ 32:36 Chamath Palihapitiya I tweeted it about it.
How Chamath Optimized His Health
- ▶ 1:54 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, you posted basically trying to do something, um, for cardiac health across all of America, and you tagged me and Bobby, but the amount of commentary in Twitter, or in X, rather, was all about the, whether or not I should be on a…
Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
- ▶ 19:34 David Friedberg Like if you look back on the last three years since you bought Twitter, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:53 David Sacks I think we originally had the idea to have you back on the pod because it was a three year anniversary of the Twitter acquisition.
Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
- ▶ 4:58 Chamath Palihapitiya The back doors that it seemed that the Biden administration had to places like Facebook and places like Twitter to just suppress scientific thought and debate as you just talked about.
Inside Orlando Bravo’s Private Equity Playbook: How to Build a Top Firm
- ▶ 22:19 Jason Calacanis That was something that actually David was exceptional at during the Twitter acquisition. 3 times in the scene
H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
- ▶ 1:13:23 David Sacks Zuckerberg had said the same thing about meta and the Twitter files informed us about the same thing, but now YouTube has finally acknowledged that. 3 times in the scene
Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
- ▶ 18:48 Senator Eric Schmitt Interestingly, the kind of how deep the rot really was, let's just take Twitter for an example. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:44 David Sacks There was correspondence inside of Twitter saying, hey, we looked at their so-called API, and these are just regular accounts.
Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
- ▶ 40:48 Jason Calacanis He owns Twitter, now X.
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 36:32 David Friedberg He just posted on Twitter yesterday that he went to DC
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- ▶ 33:51 Jason Calacanis I think what Colossus has done and what Tesla has done, both of these things, Tesla with their own stack of hardware, to your point, Shamath, hardware plus software, plus the user application of FSD and Optimus, then you put that together…
Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 15:16 Jared Isaacman We wound up raising two hundred and fifty million, but we were a little short, and we came back, and I was like, man, we almost got everything done, and then Elon sent a tweet right after Splashdown, 40 minutes after Splashdown, and he…
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 1:06:08 David Sacks I mean, look, I saw this before when I was part of the Twitter transition is that for the first three months or so, he was basically full-time at Twitter HQ, learning the business down to the database level. 2 times in the scene
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
- ▶ 23:09 Chamath Palihapitiya Nick, maybe you can find this tweet that I had, but almost the majority of years as a nation, or close to a majority of the years as a nation,
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 42:21 Jason Calacanis Should our government, and after all this donations from massive people, like I saw at the crypto ball, all the people who were tweeted by Trump, that looks terrible. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:57:08 Jason Calacanis We saw many celebrities get pinched last time for tweeting about cryptocurrencies, and this is the stuff that I think has to stop. 2 times in the scene
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 1:12:16 Jason Calacanis Obviously, I think you've been involved with XAI and obviously involved with Twitter and X previously and Colossus's colossal build out.
DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory
- ▶ 39:58 Jason Calacanis I tweeted that, and I put Joe Rogan in it too.
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 20:54 David Sacks Congress should investigate or continue investigating what went wrong there, and what exactly is the involvement of the intelligence community and the deep state in the censorship requests that we saw exposed by the Twitter files, remember?
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 1:16:04 David Sacks Just what I meant by that is, remember, before Elon bought Twitter, they told us for years that the idea that Twitter was shadow baiting conservatives and engaging in censorship was a conspiracy theory. 4 times in the scene
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 1:06:53 Jason Calacanis Clooney is also besties with Obama, and Obama has, uh, put out a tweet in support of Biden, but according to a political report,
Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
- ▶ 35:56 Jason Calacanis Obviously Trump being suspended indefinitely on Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms, or the labeling of content like we've seen on our own channel on YouTube. 3 times in the scene
Sheryl Sandberg, plus open-source AI gene editing explained
- ▶ 9:29 David Friedberg My guess is that, that, that Twitter handle's about to get popular again.
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 23:44 David Sacks Well, as it turns out, executives inside of Twitter knew who these accounts were, and they were just American accounts, some Canadian accounts. 2 times in the scene
E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- ▶ 16:33 Jason Calacanis Or Fox or Fox, or if it was, uh, beep the great, your anonymous friend on Twitter must be true.
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 12:47 Jason Calacanis So that would mean, Sachs, it would require, because we're using Zuckerberg as an example, we could also bring Twitter and X into this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:40 David Friedberg And he did a Twitter post.
E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
- ▶ 32:48 David Sacks And that's why X, you know, formerly Twitter, is the best way to get news.
E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- ▶ 1:18:32 Jason Calacanis And I went on the Twitter spaces and I asked him a follow-up question, which he wouldn't answer.
E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
- ▶ 9:58 David Friedberg He had, like, an occasional blog post, but he's, like, super active now, particularly on Twitter, no? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:26 David Friedberg And we were all talking over text the other day, as you guys know, about this building that's being shopped and got some attention on Twitter. 2 times in the scene
E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
- ▶ 50:35 Jason Calacanis A few weeks ago, as you know, a video circulated on X, formerly known as Twitter,
All-In Summit: "Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols" with Rob Henderson
- ▶ 31:58 Chamath Palihapitiya You can follow Rob Henderson on, uh, Twitter, and sign up for Substack Newsletter.
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:41:02 Jason Calacanis So go to X and look at the all in podcast Twitter handle and type all in podcast on YouTube and you get to see all these talks available now.
All-In Summit: Ro Khanna on China, political reform, major challenges facing the US and more
- ▶ 7:58 David Sacks And, um, and then there was, there was also the, the, uh, the episode in the Twitter files where you were encouraging the old Twitter management to realize that the censorship they were doing was backfiring.
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 20:15 Jason Calacanis That in one of your tweet storms in the past couple of weeks, or these long form that you're doing on X previously known as Twitter.
E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
- ▶ 6:02 David Friedberg Threads is Instagram slash Facebook slash Meta's competitor to Twitter. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:29 Brad Gerstner I sent a tweet.
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 14:30 Brad Gerstner 75, 80% of the people gone and product velocity is on fire at Twitter.
- ▶ 47:45 Chamath Palihapitiya To wit, I published this tweet.
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 2:07 Chamath Palihapitiya If you look at Twitter, some of like the, the Democratic surrogates are out just
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 18:23 Jason Calacanis People are talking about it on CNBC and it's trending on Twitter.
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 3:44 Jason Calacanis Ron DeSantis, Governor Ron DeSantis announced his bid on the internet, on something called Twitter Spaces. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:19 Jason Calacanis The Twitter app crashed so many times, but then Saks with his meager following of a half a million people or something. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:23 Jason Calacanis It's turns out Twitter sent a letter over to Microsoft as well.
- ▶ 1:32:53 David Sacks And, you know, after seeing what Elon did at Twitter, where he reduced the staff by 80%, I'm like, I realize there's no good excuse anymore. 2 times in the scene
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 44:10 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think I shared one on Twitter, which was around this company that used an AI model to build a library of 40,000 toxic compounds that could kill all kinds of numbers of humans.
- ▶ 1:38:00 Jason Calacanis Have a great time and, uh, tweet it and at mention us on Twitter.
E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- ▶ 2:44 Jason Calacanis To the sales team, hey, look for leads that have these characteristics for our sales software, put them into our database, find out if they're already in the database, alert a salesperson to it, compose a message based on that person's…
- ▶ 35:20 Jason Calacanis David Sachs, I did my own little Twitter AI hashtag, and I said to Twitter AI, if only, please generate a picture of David Sachs as Batman crouched down on the peak of the Golden Gate Bridge. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:36 Jason Calacanis A BBC reporter interviewed Elon and said, there is much more race and hate and hate speech in the feeds on Twitter.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 30:22 Jason Calacanis Twitter turned off their API.
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 1:29:01 Jason Calacanis You can follow me at twitter.com slash Jason.
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 56:21 Brad Gerstner It's, you know, people can quibble with how Elon went about the change which you and you and, uh, David are very familiar with at Twitter, but the reality is he lit a fuse in Silicon Valley that is giving courage. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:37 Chamath Palihapitiya I want to show you guys a tweet about Harvard students, and I want you guys to react to Draymond's comments, because they're just fucking incredible.
- ▶ 1:49:58 Brad Gerstner We all need to tweet that.
E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
- ▶ 33:33 David Sacks In other words, if you think about like the Twitter app right now, where Elon now has two tabs on the home tab.
- ▶ 36:08 David Friedberg And then later Google realized they had to, you know, manually change certain elements of the, the ranking algorithm and manually insert and have, you know, layers that inserted content, uh, into the search results and the same with… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:23 David Sacks The previous tech revolution, you know, where that resolved to is that the deep state, the, you know, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, even the CIA is having weekly meetings with these big tech companies, not just Twitter, but…
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 1:50 David Sacks Jake Al was on Twitter calling me out for not denouncing the Chinese balloon is strong enough language.
- ▶ 58:07 David Friedberg For Hot Minute, they did have access to the Twitter firehose, and that was the premise, was we could get this corpus of data that we can have in a very limited, restricted way. 3 times in the scene
E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
- ▶ 0:40 Jason Calacanis Just as a, um, programming note, we did a Twitter survey and you selected Saks as the person you wanted to moderate the pod most next.
- ▶ 42:19 David Sacks We had to watch it on Twitter because Elon Musk's Twitter is still free. 2 times in the scene
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 1:11:37 Chamath Palihapitiya Even people like Twitter is just refusing to pay the rent.
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 2:09 Jason Calacanis You're at the Twitter HQ.
- ▶ 1:00:05 Elon Musk Which is like actually a lot harder feature to implement than you'd think because the sheer number of, uh, transactions, uh, per second, like, uh, uh, it's, I think it sort of requires system-wide, uh, on the order of, of three, three… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:26 Elon Musk You know, the, the, the verified, uh, is obviously that that's, that's, that's huge.
- ▶ 1:05:19 Elon Musk That would not, that would not, does these, that's not, was not Twitter's prior culture. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:41 Elon Musk Almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:21 Michael Shellenberger Now, I think what you saw over the last, uh, three weeks was, uh, a shift in, I think, our own understanding that we did see more pushback from Twitter executives against FBI. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11:01 David Friedberg I think he's taken on a role in buying and running Twitter that is, you know, principled and, you know, in his mind and many other people's minds, a really important role that someone needs to play. 2 times in the scene
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 15:16 David Sacks Whereas the former rulers at Twitter were indulging their personal bias and personal preferences in who they were banning. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:08 Jason Calacanis We, these, ah, a bigger point right now, and this does tie into our first story, is I think comedians look at Twitter as a place to get canceled, not a place to be part of the discourse, and that's a huge loss that's indicative of our…
- ▶ 51:20 Chamath Palihapitiya Signal will Elon's moves at Twitter, uh, be for the rest of, uh, the tech industry. 2 times in the scene
E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
- ▶ 2:34 Jason Calacanis Twitter files part one and part two dropped. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 Jason Calacanis And this is where the danger comes in, because all of these actions were taken without any transparency, and they were taken on one side of the aisle by people inside of Twitter, essentially covertly, no ownership of who did it, and they…
- ▶ 11:21 Jason Calacanis If those people experience harassment because of it, is that something that Twitter should allow? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 David Friedberg Articulated a vision for the product he wanted Twitter to be, but I don't think that's necessarily the product that they wanted to create. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:31 Jason Calacanis In the cases we've seen so far from Bari Weiss's reporting in the Twitter Files Part De, it's very clear that these were not justifiable. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:14 David Sacks The lies of the powerful group of people who were running Twitter policy and suppressing one side of the debate has been exposed and the media is treating it with a yawn. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:15 David Sacks What he did was confirm that a completely true story by the New York Post about Hunter Biden that came out a month before the election was suppressed by Twitter executives, including at the behest of, you know, of, of FBI agents and former… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:23 David Sacks So he digs his way into the Twitter bureaucracy to the point where he isn't even found. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:58 David Sacks And it was the same story that the FBI was telling Twitter, and it was the same story that these Twitter executives were indulging in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:39 Jason Calacanis Twitter and Facebook did not know. 3 times in the scene
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 1:26:46 David Sacks I mean, look, I actually went out of town a few days ago, so I wasn't keeping up with, you know, every detail of what was happening at Twitter. 4 times in the scene
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- ▶ 1:17:35 David Sacks Well, I mean, I think Elon's going to be a trailblazer in a lot of ways on this Twitter thing.
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- ▶ 1:31 David Sacks I've gotten all sorts of inbound from people asking me if I'm like leaving craft ventures to do something at Twitter. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:17 David Friedberg Cause I think so much of my news feed is delivered to me through the Twitter app. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:38 David Friedberg And if folks, uh, listening aren't familiar with what happened, these two guys came out and they pretended to be fired Twitter employees on Monday. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:46 Jason Calacanis Stripe, 14% RIF, a thousand employees, Opendoor Chime, Dapper Labs, all hundreds of employees, Opendoor, the most significant, there are 550, 18%, Dapper, 22%, and Twitter, we'll see what the RIF winds up being, but that's occurring as…
- ▶ 19:24 David Friedberg I think what if what Elon is going to do at Twitter, or what is reported, so this is nothing to do with anything anyone told me, just what I've read in the reporting. 4 times in the scene