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AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
- ▶ 1:28:34 David Friedberg As a sub, there's an interview with the CEO where he said, like, Warren Buffett just told me every year, make the product better than it was at the end of last year.
Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
- ▶ 8:10 David Sacks You know, I think it was Warren Buffett or maybe Munger who said that leverage is the only way that smart people go broke because, you know, if you're not using leverage,
- ▶ 12:58 David Friedberg I think the Warren Buffett
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 1:26:34 Jason Calacanis Warren Buffett, everybody was pushing for this.
- ▶ 1:40:17 Brad Gerstner And philanthropists can't contribute to it and moms and dads and, but the most important thing, you know, like I, I, I say this, you know, Buffett's like the secret is to find a really small snowball on a really long hill.
Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
- ▶ 26:41 Andrew Feldman And it's like, uh, Warren Buffett talked about the reinsurance industry, that you know something bad's gonna happen.
Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?!
- ▶ 39:19 Nate Silver Like, I, I don't, you don't see very many Warren Buffett, fine, if Warren Buffett ran for president, maybe I'd vote for him, right?
Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
- ▶ 19:18 Bill Ackman Um, it basically, this guy, uh, went back and read every 10 Q, whatever, he actually went through the filings, looked at every deal that Buffett ever did, and you follow him over a 60 year period of time. 6 times in the scene
How We Grew Koch Industries to $150 Billion Without Going Public: Charles & Chase Koch
- ▶ 17:40 Chase Koch I mean, obviously Warren Buffett and his team have done an unbelievable job operating the business the way they have, but we think about our business very differently.
- ▶ 37:52 David Friedberg This was one of the insights from Warren Buffett, is 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:03 Charles Koch Now, if you're Buffett and you've sold that long, then people, okay, but, but he wasn't trying to integrate them the way we do.
- ▶ 50:37 Charles Koch Well, if you can get a, if you can sell it like Buffett has, but I mean, he wasn't doing these principles, but he had a different principle, and that is, I'm gonna buy companies, I'm not gonna take 4 times in the scene
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 26:28 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, this is an example of Warren Buffett's returns pre and post Reg FD.
Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- ▶ 14:36 David Friedberg That's Warren Buffett's famous quote, that the actual earnings generation in the future will determine whether someone paid a good price or a bad price, depending on the point at which they bought in the past, meaning
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- ▶ 36:39 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, Buffett, when he got to that decision said, I don't care.
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 27:13 Chamath Palihapitiya And I said, I have tremendous respect for Charlie and Warren, but they're wrong.
Inside Orlando Bravo’s Private Equity Playbook: How to Build a Top Firm
- ▶ 16:04 David Sacks That's sort of Warren Buffett's mentality, isn't it?
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 40:40 Chamath Palihapitiya When Warren Buffett stepped in to backstop Goldman Sachs, he was able to get the United States government to help him backstop that. 2 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller
- ▶ 29:55 Chase Lochmiller Um, I'm gonna start with a quote, and it's from Warren Buffett in his twenty-twenty shareholder letter, shareholder letter to investors, and he said, in its brief 232 years of existence, there has been no incubator for unleashing human… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:17 Chase Lochmiller And I want to leave you with, you know, my final quote from Warren Buffett that, you know, in this AI race, uh, never bet against America.
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 51:20 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that this is why Buffett sort of speaks about
Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
- ▶ 25:36 Tony Robbins I fed two families, and then four, and I got hooked on it, and then I got my little company involved, and then we got to two million people, and then two million from me, and two million from, you know, the general public, and then when I…
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 49:11 Chamath Palihapitiya oh my God, like it's like, but Buffett said this, like Buffett has this very famous thing of just putting his CEOs on the spot and saying, 2 times in the scene
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
- ▶ 54:16 Chamath Palihapitiya Have you guys heard of Warren Buffett's most public failure? 4 times in the scene
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 1:20:17 Chamath Palihapitiya Buffett wrote about this in an annual letter, and what he described was the changing nature of jobs during the agrarian revolution.
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 19:54 Jason Calacanis The new iPhone's 16, not very strong, and I feel like they're adrift, and Warren Buffett sold all his shares in it.
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 7:06 Chamath Palihapitiya And again, when rates are non-trivially high, I just think that it's not the easiest thing in the world to pull off like a really big M&A event, nor is it a really easy thing to pull off, to pull off a huge IPO when, again, there's a…
- ▶ 11:09 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, do you think Warren Buffett's going to take three hundred twenty five billion of cash? 2 times in the scene
Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- ▶ 18:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Buffett warned B of A publicly. 4 times in the scene
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
- ▶ 43:04 Chamath Palihapitiya On Sachs' point about the equity markets, there is this thing that people look at called the Buffett indicator, which is the total value of the Wilshire, 5000 divided by GDP. 2 times in the scene
Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- ▶ 45:48 Jason Calacanis You predicted, I think absolutely correctly that the less Berkshire Hathaway and Buffett talk in their 10 times in the scene
Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
- ▶ 14:38 David Friedberg He would call his friend Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 18:14 Chamath Palihapitiya So take Warren Buffett as the counterfactual to this. 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
- ▶ 1:21:06 Chamath Palihapitiya I think this is, uh, you guys see that in the Berkshire annual meeting last weekend, Tim Cook was in the audience and Buffett 4 times in the scene
E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
- ▶ 36:16 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, if you read Buffett's letter this year, he has a really great commentary on Deloitte and KPMG and these sorts of letters, which is not exactly the most supportive, is the best way to say it.
- ▶ 53:27 Chamath Palihapitiya And then the coup de gras is Warren Buffett. 8 times in the scene
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 6:05 Chamath Palihapitiya Warren Buffett thinks Masa is a fraud.
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 1:25:05 Chamath Palihapitiya So what is Buffett? 3 times in the scene
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 31:41 David Friedberg That's a significant shift in risk, and I think there have been others like Ray Dalio, I think, or Warren Buffett.
E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
- ▶ 53:10 Chamath Palihapitiya So what you're saying is Warren Buffett and Geico.
All-In Summit: Jenny Just on Peak6, the female market correction, poker, and risk
- ▶ 5:23 Jenny Just Mr.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Vinod Khosla
- ▶ 12:00 Vinod Khosla I'm 68, so, ah, you know, and Warren Buffett's gone a lot longer than I have.
- ▶ 32:50 Vinod Khosla It can accelerate a little bit or slow down because less resources are available, but fundamentals is a good way to invest, sort of the Warren Buffett method, not the short-term, hey, he's valuing it twice, so let me pay up, and then…
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:09:54 Brad Gerstner Researching him, you know, but you know, the fact of the matter as has Warren Buffett 3 times in the scene
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 47:47 Chamath Palihapitiya Yesterday about Buffett and his trades in Japan, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:23 Chamath Palihapitiya The funniest thing was I did this tweet about Buffett and then people were like, oh, but I thought you compared yourself to Buffett. 2 times in the scene
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 16:42 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, there's a lot of, like, if you look at Buffett, he's 92, he's sharp as a tack.
E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- ▶ 25:03 Chamath Palihapitiya I think Buffett is right. 2 times in the scene
E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
- ▶ 53:11 Chamath Palihapitiya Buffett talks about this all the time. 3 times in the scene
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:07:03 Brad Gerstner Warren Buffett was famously saying, listen, it doesn't matter whether you pay in stock, whether you pay in cash, whether you pay in cans of beers, like it all costs the same.
- ▶ 1:26:27 Chamath Palihapitiya It's in the Warren Buffett, what Warren Buffett calls the too hard bucket.
E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
- ▶ 16:25 Chamath Palihapitiya If you listen to Buffett, Buffett's teacher, this guy, Ben Graham, in Ben Graham's book, the way that he would look at a stock and obviously look, things have changed, but the way that he would look at a stock is he would look at that…
- ▶ 32:22 Jason Calacanis And so, so back to value investing and Warren Buffett, that means the earnings per share go way up. 2 times in the scene
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 1:45:45 David Friedberg My vote for best CEO, uh, is, uh, Warren Buffett. 4 times in the scene
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 1:18:45 Chamath Palihapitiya Just to build on top of what you're saying, Warren Buffett made this very famous bet in 2000. 4 times in the scene
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
- ▶ 1:17:37 Chamath Palihapitiya That's when Buffett came in.
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 9:13 Chamath Palihapitiya The Buffett example, you know, would be the quote, you know, whenever somebody tells you that this time is different, it's probably not that different.
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 1:21:00 Jason Calacanis I was watching Warren Buffett answer some questions and one of the questions, and this goes to the law of big numbers like BlackRock.
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 48:04 Chamath Palihapitiya Look, I'll give you the Warren Buffett school, and you can tell me that it's stupid, but it kind of makes sense, which is you take the number of shares you own, you divide it by the total number of shares outstanding, you look at the total…
- ▶ 55:25 Chamath Palihapitiya I'll just, the quote from Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:14 David Friedberg Uh, you know, the old Warren Buffett quote, or whomever it is, that over the long term, equities are a weighing machine.
E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
- ▶ 37:03 Brad Gerstner A massive amount of research that's been done that Buffett and Marx and many others have quoted that your ability to calculate risk goes down when you see a bunch of other people doing that thing, right?
E78: VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans, Bill Hwang arrest
- ▶ 11:45 Chamath Palihapitiya It's kind of that old Warren Buffett coat.
E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 28:37 Chamath Palihapitiya What Buffett would tell you to do.
- ▶ 47:57 Brad Gerstner Look at, look at Buffett, right? 2 times in the scene
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 1:11:27 David Friedberg And the only folks that you see doing this well, are folks like Warren Buffett, where the job is really about capital allocation, where you know, you can allocate capital to the best business,
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 28:00 David Friedberg And this is effectively what Warren Buffett does. 2 times in the scene
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 1:13:50 Chamath Palihapitiya And just to give you a sense of it, there's a really great study by, um, AQR, I think is the name of the hedge fund, and, um, they reverse engineered, uh, Buffett's returns. 3 times in the scene
E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- ▶ 46:24 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, Buffett says it's, it's a voting machine in the short term and a weighing machine in the long term.
E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 25:19 David Friedberg Warren Buffett talks about it a lot.
- ▶ 1:16:19 Brad Gerstner As Buffett has talked about in Snowball, the behavioral economics are, if you have savings, you save more, right?
E28: Current state of public & private markets, Archegos debacle, US debt issues, wealth tax & more
- ▶ 7:20 Chamath Palihapitiya I would say Buffett is in that category, you know, for us, for the most part, we are inception to date risk because we don't have external LPs.
E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- ▶ 21:34 David Sacks That's the common denominator, whether it's like Howard Marks or Warren Buffett or Charlie Munger, whoever they're, they're all like great investors or whatever, but they're not technologists and it's a blind spot.
E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
- ▶ 19:21 Chamath Palihapitiya If you think about the, if you think about the trade of the great financial crisis, it was Warren Buffett putting capital into Goldman Sachs, which was, and Swiss three. 3 times in the scene
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 47:06 David Friedberg I got, um, I think people missed this, but at the bottom of the market, Silver Lake did this massive debt deal into Airbnb, which if you'll remember is reminiscent to me of Warren Buffett, you know, giving five billion dollars to Swiss Re…
- ▶ 55:37 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, and she wrote this incredible quote that I had never heard from Buffett and I'll give it to you Friedberg cause it's right. 3 times in the scene
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 27:07 Chamath Palihapitiya There's a great quote by Warren Buffett, which is, um, if you know what you're doing, the best thing you can do is be as concentrated as possible.
E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- ▶ 0:26 Jason Calacanis And here is the quote that, as only Chamath can tweet, Buffett had Geico.
SPAC talk with Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, David Sacks & Jason Calacanis | from Episode 7
- ▶ 9:30 Chamath Palihapitiya If one is so deep, meaning if Warren Buffett was doing his back, you'd say, well, he has no operational experience, but he's so credible in the public markets, then, you know, that's all that matters, but you need to be super, super deep…
E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more
- ▶ 1:00:16 Chamath Palihapitiya If one is so deep, meaning if Warren Buffett was doing his back, you'd say, well, he has no operational experience, but he's so credible in the public markets.
E1: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, VC & Public Markets with David Friedberg
- ▶ 40:33 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, we're gonna have to go through, uh, an unfortunate period of pain, and, you know, as, as Buffett said, you know, rule number one of our business is to not go out of business.
E0: COVID-19 Political, Economic & Social Ramifications featuring David Friedberg
- ▶ 1:17:30 Chamath Palihapitiya And history will look favorably on that guy, because like Buffett said, in moments like this, and in your life, in business anyways, but I guess also in life, the most important thing is to not go out of business.
- ▶ 1:27:18 David Friedberg I mean, you can read Buffett's letters, and he talks about, with a great perspective of the last, you know, what we've built in this country over the last 200 years.