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United Kingdom

also referred to as: the uk · uk

22 statements across 18 episodes · 4 bullish · 13 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Apr 11, 2020 by David Sacks · said 303 times in 133 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Chamath Palihapitiya (89), David Sacks (74), Jason Calacanis (50), David Friedberg (27), Scott Bessent (6), Ray Dalio (4), Brooke Rollins (4), Senator Ted Cruz (3)

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2026 66 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
2025 75 mentions in 36 episodes 2 per episode
2024 23 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
2023 57 mentions in 24 episodes 2 per episode
2022 43 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode
2021 28 mentions in 19 episodes 1 per episode
2020 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about United Kingdom, oldest first

Apr 11, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Sacks: US hospitals expanded capacity and avoided European ventilator rationing
“I think the hospital system has done a great job rapidly creating more capacity. We haven't seen A situation like in Italy or even the UK where they're literally rational rationing ventilators and making horrible triage decisions about who's going to get a ven…”
David Sacks Apr 11, 2020 ▶ 12:58 E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
Dec 23, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Sachs: Starlink is faster than fixed broadband in seven major countries
“Now it's reported that Starlink is faster than the fixed broadband average in Belgium, Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, New Zealand, and France.”
David Sacks Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:17:47 E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
Nov 19, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath: US ambassadorships to UK and France require $10M out-of-pocket annually
“So for the UK and France, the gap is ten million a year that you have to fund out of pocket.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 19, 2022 ▶ 6:19 E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
Dec 24, 2022 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
David Sacks: Zombie Thatcherism and Reaganism are not electorally viable
“I think zombie Thatcherism is not going to be electorally viable In the UK, just like zombie Reaganism is not going to be viable in the United States.”
David Sacks Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 58:45 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
Jul 9, 2023 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Chamath: UK interest rates will reach 7% and could hit 8%
“The UK, it seems like, I don't know what you guys think, it's definitely going to seven, and it could go to eight.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 9, 2023 ▶ 36:07 E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
Sep 16, 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Gurley: UK 'loser pays' rule results in 90% less litigation
“They have some clever policies like losing party pays, which causes one-tenth Of the litigation that we have.”
Bill Gurley Sep 16, 2023 ▶ 30:27 All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
Dec 23, 2023 negative
Insight
Sacks: Startups should avoid putting European headquarters in the UK
“If you're a startup and you're trying to consider where to put your Europe office, I would not choose the UK anymore. I used to think that the UK was number one because it was so easy, but you don't want to create that nexus if you can help it. It might subjec…”
David Sacks Dec 23, 2023 ▶ 42:23 E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
Jan 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Coalition allies contributed no military assets to Houthi strikes
“The allies who participated in the campaign of airstrikes were UK, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, and Bahrain. But I don't think they actually did anything. I don't think they contributed any assets. They just provided their names to this operation and provid…”
David Sacks Jan 13, 2024 ▶ 3:28 E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
Jun 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: UK Labour Party has lowest post-election approval ratings in history
“Labor is now at the absolute, the labor party, the absolute lowest approval ratings in the UK of any party ever in this moment in time after an election.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 28, 2025 ▶ 57:39 12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
Oct 31, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Musk: UK released violent offenders to imprison people over social media posts
“They have, in a lot of cases, released people who have committed violent crimes in order to imprison people who have simply made posts on social media.”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 42:19 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
Oct 31, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Musk: UK has 2,000 to 3,000 people imprisoned for social media posts
“My understanding is that in the UK, there's something like two or 3000 people in prison for social media posts.”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 42:00 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
Dec 24, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: UK has over 3,000 arrests for malicious communication
“3000 plus arrests in the UK for malicious communication, mostly fines, but also incarcerations, including recently calling a convicted rapist a pig, landed someone in jail.”
David Friedberg Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 1:12:32 All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
Jan 22, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Rogers: UK sentenced a mother to 31 months for anti-migration tweet
“There was a thirty-one-month sentence handed down to a suburban mother named Lucy Connolly in the UK because after a man called Axel Rudabanka stabbed, I think it was a seven-year-old girl, an eight-year-old girl, and a nine-year-old girl at a birthday party, …”
Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 14:10 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
Jan 22, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Rogers: UK regulator Ofcom fines US websites that don't operate there
“Under the Online Safety Act, we now have active litigation by the relevant regulator Ofcom against several American websites. These are websites that don't reach into the UK. They're not, they're, these aren't websites dedicated to discussing the Queen. They'r…”
Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 4:48 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
Mar 11, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Palihapitiya calls UK capital markets a disaster for raising money
“The UK is a disaster. It is impossible to raise money. It's impossible to raise money or innovate in a European exchange.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 45:44 They're Opening the Stock Market to Everyone. Here's What That Actually Means
Apr 29, 2026 negative
Opinion
Hilton compares current California conditions to 1970s United Kingdom
“There are so many things I see in California today that are exactly like the UK in the seventies. You've got the massive dominance of the unions in policymaking. You've got a slurotic economy. You've got massively high taxation.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 7:19 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Apr 29, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Steve Hilton states he renounced his United Kingdom citizenship
“I actually renounced my UK citizenship.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 8:14 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Jun 27, 2026
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Social media bans will reduce youth political radicalization
“I think you are going to see, I suspect, a far less radicalized youth aging into the voting rolls in those three countries.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 27, 2026 ▶ 26:20 Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
Jun 27, 2026 negative
Opinion
Kalanick: Under-16 social media bans aim to de-anonymize adults for censorship
“The real point of banning under-sixteen is so that you can force adults to identify themselves and de-anonymize themselves so you can set up a full-scale censorship regime, which they're sort of contemplating in the UK.”
Travis Kalanick Jun 27, 2026 ▶ 27:11 Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
Jul 3, 2026 negative
Opinion
Chamath: Cultural shifts from immigration worsened UK, Germany, and France
“You can look at the UK and you can look at Germany and you can look at France and you have to ask yourself is the cultural deviation from where they were, has it been better? Or worse for those countries. And I think in general, it has been worse.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 1:11:50 AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
Aug 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Weinstein: 1971 Australian Intelligence Document Discloses 1960s Gravity Shielding Research
“There's a 1971 Australian intelligence document where Australia, which was the Testing ground for nukes that of the United Kingdom. Started seeing all these UAPs near their nuclear tests just the way we see them near ours. And the Australians revealed that all…”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:24:09 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
Aug 29, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Teen social media restrictions will probably spread to more countries
“These limitations are coming around in Australia and Canada and the UK. They'll probably appear in other places.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Aug 29, 2026 ▶ 1:20:53 Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
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