Twitter, every mention
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every year 2022 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
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
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 4:42 Chamath Palihapitiya In front of that Twitter building. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:14 David Sacks So look, I think what's cool about what Elon is doing is he's starting with this mission of restoring Twitter to being 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:07 Jason Calacanis Freeberg, the biggest issue I perceive in the short term for Twitter is going to be what to do with people like Trump and Kanye West or Ye. 7 times in the scene
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 2:18 Jason Calacanis If you don't remember, Parler is like a really shitty version of Twitter that never seems to have worked or been stable. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:36 David Friedberg Clearly not happened over the years with Twitter to the degree that people thought it should have.
- ▶ 28:37 Brad Gerstner I mean, last night I read a report, came across Bloomberg, that Elon's talking about 75% reduction at Twitter. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:08 Jason Calacanis Because it does seem if Elon does with Twitter, what seems to have been leaked here correctly, according to all reports,
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
- ▶ 1:10:09 Jason Calacanis So Elon put out a tweet for and got savage for it.
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- ▶ 1:19:42 David Friedberg I also think that it's a terrible idea for YouTube and Twitter to take stuff down.
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 7:07 David Sacks Because he explained this like abundantly for the two years he was advocating for this.
E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
- ▶ 1:29 Jason Calacanis Right before, I guess, the big case between Elon and Twitter is about to happen, I guess, in October at some point, a Twitter whistleblower has come forward and dropped a nuke into the middle of what was basically the story of the year in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:19 Jason Calacanis Twitter was forced by the Indian government to put a government agent on the payroll. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:10 Jason Calacanis Twitter also has one. 2 times in the scene
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 2:35 Jason Calacanis Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't, every week of the show, I will tweet like, hey, anything you want on the docket, because sometimes people will have good ideas.
#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
- ▶ 13:11 Chamath Palihapitiya Do you, um, there's a website, people have tweeted this, uh, I think the website is called whatthefuckhappenedin 1971 dot com.
#AIS: Divvy Homes CEO Adena Hefets breaks down the state of the US housing market
- ▶ 30:47 Adena Hefets I play the housing long game, as the stock market will jitter, but solving inequality is less flashy than almost buying Twitter.
#AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 34:46 unnamed speaker Is he gonna buy it? 3 times in the scene
E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- ▶ 1:05:23 Jason Calacanis I mean, Saks made a great tweet. 4 times in the scene
#AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022
- ▶ 35:19 Jason Calacanis Should Elon buy, should Elon buy Twitter? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:00 Keith Rabois Like, I bet you, for example, like, you know, if you read the media or you read Twitter, you think this abortion law change in Florida is radical. 2 times in the scene
#AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 25:22 Antonio Garcia Martinez No, I, I disagree, and I think, I, I think you've spent too long in Plato's cave of Twitter, and you don't, you don't stare at reality anymore, to be quite honest. 3 times in the scene
Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
- ▶ 0:55 Elon Musk Um, I guess right now, um, I'm sort of debating the number of bots on Twitter, uh, on Twitter. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:14 Chamath Palihapitiya You tweeted 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:09 Elon Musk I got involved when Twitter, when Tesla was nothing but a piece of paper.
- ▶ 39:35 Elon Musk That's the, uh, and then, and then, you know, go do some, go add to it with, you know, Twitter or something like that.
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 23:33 Chamath Palihapitiya So there was a article in Bloomberg that came out that said, instead of Elon taking margin loans to fund his acquisition of Twitter, there is an idea being floated by Morgan Stanley to use convertible debt.
E78: VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans, Bill Hwang arrest
- ▶ 1:30:29 Chamath Palihapitiya I think people misunderstand Elon's incentives for buying Twitter. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:17 David Friedberg So, there's a scientific paper that says, this drug doesn't cure COVID, and then someone goes on Twitter and says, take this drug, it cures COVID. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49:10 Jason Calacanis You have to make your own decisions in these cases, and you know, like, it's great to have smart friends to have a dialogue with, and Twitter should be dialogue.
E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 22:04 David Sacks I think Elon wants to make free speech restore its place back in Twitter's mission.
E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- ▶ 0:17 Jason Calacanis That's Elon and Twitter.
- ▶ 9:30 Jason Calacanis We set a record that seemed to have gotten lost in the haze of Twitter.
E76: Elon vs. Twitter
- ▶ 11:30 David Friedberg They've all been working on quarterly plans, strategic plans, etc, with the current CEO, and as a board for Twitter, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:53 David Sacks We know Twitter has enormous cultural power. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:34 Chamath Palihapitiya Because if you look at the tenure of all these folks, you know, the last sea change that happened on the Twitter board was when Elliot pushed to add, I think two or three directors. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:36 David Sacks And particularly in this case, we have to look at the track record of this management team, which it barely exists, but also this culture at Twitter, okay? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:30 David Sacks Hold on, there are big limits on the ability of Elon to go on the open market and just keep buying up all of Twitter, and now with this poison pill, 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 David Sacks Of Twitter as a free speech platform. 3 times in the scene
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 41:51 Jason Calacanis Alright, moving on, and speaking of boards, Elon bought a chunk of Twitter last week, a nine percent stake, and he's joining the board. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:09 David Friedberg Facebook, Twitter, even Google all acquiesced to significant external pressure over the years. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:29 David Friedberg If they choose like Pinterest and Twitter and YouTube and Facebook and Google to change how their platform operates Saks, I actually think that's a commercial decision made by a private company. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:13 David Sacks It's like, look, if you don't like, if you don't like the, the free speech that's happening on Twitter, go create your own social network, because that's what they were saying.
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 1:16:56 Jason Calacanis They already banned Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in their country. 2 times in the scene
E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 0:53 Jason Calacanis He's bitter on Twitter.
- ▶ 5:05 Brad Gerstner I said on Twitter that the rate path last week became a lot more certain.
- ▶ 1:25:54 Brad Gerstner I tweeted a few weeks ago, the feds probably behind the curve on recession, not inflation, right? 2 times in the scene
E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more
- ▶ 4:31 Chamath Palihapitiya That's the, that's the, that's what I saw on Twitter.
- ▶ 1:13:21 Chamath Palihapitiya There was this clip on Twitter, um, when the mask mandate was lifted in Nevada, and it was a clip of kids in, like, grade two or three, and they went crazy, ok?
- ▶ 1:16:10 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, under Democratic and Republican, uh, presidents that, to me, when I saw this on the ACLU Twitter feed yesterday was shocking. 2 times in the scene
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 23:40 Ryan Petersen So I tweeted about this and the, the city of Long Beach actually responded. 2 times in the scene
E65: VC markup dynamics, Russia/US tensions over Ukraine, Altos Labs raises $3B, Stripe mafia & more
- ▶ 1:06:31 Chamath Palihapitiya And then all of these folks had to come out on Twitter and lambast them.
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 2:58 David Friedberg Yeah, so I said, um, I, I just wanted to, I was gonna actually send this out on Twitter, and I decided it was better just to address it on the pod.
- ▶ 7:02 David Sacks And everyone gets to basically go on Twitter and virtue signal and say what great people they are because Chamath is a bad person.
- ▶ 21:06 Jason Calacanis Well, to be going through that, and then also like monitoring Twitter and inbound, your phone must have been blowing up.