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Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
- ▶ 1:16:29 David Friedberg I mean, it seems like the West is probably clumped together.
Inside Trump's Science Agenda: Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China w/ Michael Kratsios
- ▶ 0:11 David Friedberg Are we in this moment, this populist moment right now in the West, where science and technology is viewed as a tool of the elite, and therefore it must be broken and destroyed?
- ▶ 44:58 David Friedberg I mean, there's this deep anti-science, anti-technology sentiment, not just in the U.S., but in the West. 2 times in the scene
China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan
- ▶ 4:35 Jason Calacanis Our ability in America to produce ships, and for people who don't know, the amount of, ah, tonnage, the number of ships that we're able to make in America and most Western countries is very low. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:05 Jason Calacanis Am I correct about that in the West here?
John Fetterman: 'I'm the Only Democrat in Congress Saying This'
- ▶ 14:21 unnamed speaker What does this speak to for the future of both America's leadership with the, in the West, and this alliance that has kind of created a great power center that's created balance in the world?
Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
- ▶ 29:48 David Sacks I think people in the West didn't realize, in a way, how good China was at producing models, and there was a little bit of complacency, uh, towards our relative position.
Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
- ▶ 3:15 Sarah B. Rogers So, Europe, um, especially since, since the Second World War, but I think really since the American founding and our codification of the First Amendment, you know, America has taken a much stronger approach on free speech than even most of…
The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
- ▶ 8:32 unnamed speaker And I think to your point, and I was going to bring this up later, but there's such a powerful lesson to be learned for the West, for America, for Europe.
- ▶ 14:29 María Corina Machado In the world has, has, you know, converged into Venezuela that has been turned into a safe heaven for, for the enemies of, of, of the West and, and the enemies of the United States.
- ▶ 34:46 unnamed speaker Maduro has publicly said many times that you are a puppet of the West, that the US and its allies are trying to interfere in Venezuelan politics because of their economic interest in the Venezuelan oil reserves. 3 times in the scene
Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI: Nvidia Lessons, Intel’s Decline and the US-China Chip War
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America
- ▶ 0:30 Eric Schmidt So if you were emperor of the world for one hour, the most important thing I'd do is make sure that the West wins.
- ▶ 5:59 Eric Schmidt Now, I happen to think the West and democracies are correct, and I'd much rather have the proliferation of large language models than that learning be done based on Western values. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:30 David Friedberg Um, the, I, I don't know if the right term is the erosion of the West, that there may be social issues that are brewing in the West that may be hurting us from the inside. 4 times in the scene
Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire
- ▶ 1:09:20 David Friedberg The evolution of society in the West can be viewed through a lens of 4 times in the scene
Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
- ▶ 21:25 Anatoly Yakovenko I think what, like, we should do living in the West is really have strong opinions about property rights and how important they are and how foundational they are to wealth creation in the West and America. 2 times in the scene
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on self-driving's future, changing business model, job displacement
- ▶ 17:21 Jason Calacanis Putting three hundred million into Neuro, or we had Travis on the podcast and he said, um, he's had many opportunities to look at things like Pony, which has been in the press and, um, it would be pretty great to have the original founder,…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win
- ▶ 4:33 Alex Karp I do think there's an issue with our lead institutions that have taken the best and brightest and most valuable things you could teach someone and have turned it into some kind of Stalinistic bullshit that is anti-correlated with…
- ▶ 19:35 Alex Karp I've told every single important, I, I do a lot of constructive engagement internally, like, with countries, because, you know, people know I'm kind of on their side in the West.
- ▶ 37:55 David Sacks So, Alex, I think you've developed a little bit of a reputation of a defender of the West, and you've talked about that here.
Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- ▶ 33:40 Tucker Carlson Give me another example other than the mass rape by the Mongols of population change like what we've seen in the West over the past 50 years.
- ▶ 52:20 David Friedberg Do you believe that there is rising anti-Semitism in the West?
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 37:36 Jason Calacanis And w what is the argument we would make to them as the West Americans, people who have nuclear weapons, Russia, China have them.
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 1:30:00 Jason Calacanis Uh, Tucker, can the West allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, or is this more a WMD situation that we referenced at the start of the program? 2 times in the scene
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 23:55 Jason Calacanis People compete, and the good guys, you know, the West should be supported to hit artificial general intelligence as fast as possible, so the bad guys, China, don't get it first.
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 58:58 Jason Calacanis I was really taken back by how much time they had spent in the West. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:33 Jason Calacanis They could be involved with the West.
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 1:27:32 Chamath Palihapitiya And there are as many clinical trials now in China as there are in the United States, and oftentimes they're bigger, which is to say that the amount of innovation and the surface area there is already exceeding what's happening in the West. 2 times in the scene
AI Czar David Sacks Explains the DeepSeek Freak Out
- ▶ 10:49 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, the only reason I'm bringing these up is we, meaning the West, with all the money that we've had, didn't come up with these ideas.
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 15:34 Chamath Palihapitiya The, the Western world is ending.
- ▶ 28:10 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, the only reason I'm bringing these up is we, meaning the West, with all the money that we've had, didn't come up with these ideas.
DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory
- ▶ 50:52 David Sacks The, the West 2 times in the scene
Ingo Uytdehaage, Adyen | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 22:12 Jason Calacanis The West has too much influence over the movement of money. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 1:28:42 David Sacks To be neutral and not part of the Western military block that was so threatening to Russia. 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 2:25 David Sacks You know, I, I think we always thought that the West was the exception to that, that we knew there were authoritarian places around the world, but we thought that in the West we'd have freedom of speech, and we've seen, like you said, it…
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 1:03:22 Chamath Palihapitiya Other than the West, you embrace the national traditions that make a culture its own. 3 times in the scene
500K Subscriber Livestream! | All-In Podcast
- ▶ 17:33 David Friedberg I think Javier Millet represents the salvation of the West, and I think that much of the West is headed in a kind of direction that he's, I think, described well, which he generally calls kind of socialist policies that negatively impacts… 2 times in the scene
In conversation with President Trump
- ▶ 1:08:18 Jason Calacanis Like, maybe you could come to the West and see a movie premiere or come to the NBA finals as opposed to start lobbying
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 1:14:57 David Sacks We don't have those technologies and the West doesn't have them as well in sufficient numbers.
E167: Google's Woke AI disaster, Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
- ▶ 1:18:59 David Sacks The West is going to use this as evidence that Putin wants to invade multiple countries and invade, you know, a bunch of countries in Europe, and this could lead to a major escalation in the war.
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 1:32:09 Jason Calacanis And if you have somebody like Tucker, who is obviously very sympathetic to Russia and who believes that, you know, the West forced Putin to invade Ukraine, you know, you're not going to get like a really great interview.
E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- ▶ 8:07 David Sacks I mean, Millet gets up there, and I think he was introduced by Klaus Schwab, and he immediately starts denouncing collectivist experiments and says that the West is in danger because its elites have been co-opted by a vision of the world,…
- ▶ 15:41 David Friedberg Um, this photo I put up here is from 1913, uh, Buenos Aires, which at the time was called Paris of the West. 3 times in the scene
E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
- ▶ 16:43 David Sacks I upleveled my answer a little bit here to have the collective West as the biggest political loser, and Ukraine is a big part of that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:24 David Friedberg Uh, and obviously that now, you know, Turkey is siding with folks who are actual threats to the West. 2 times in the scene
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 16:18 David Friedberg You know, Hamas is a self-proclaimed political party that was thrust to the center of geopolitics and domestic social issues across the west after October seventh, which was, I think, probably a surprise
- ▶ 1:05:22 Jason Calacanis The one thing you miss there, Chamath, in the Western world, at least, 36% increase in suicide over the past two decades, so a lot
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 27:22 Jason Calacanis Well, I, I think that the larger forces are united in wanting to have prosperity for their people, education for their people, uh, and to build deep ties with the West and the East to do commerce. 2 times in the scene
In conversation with Dean Phillips
- ▶ 1:34:44 Jason Calacanis What are your thoughts on foreign trade and our business relationship with China and their relationship with the West and the rest of the world?
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 13:50 David Sacks And I guess one other element to add to it is that, you know, while Israel is doing that, you're seeing protests both in the west and in the Arab or Muslim world.
E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
- ▶ 1:18:22 David Friedberg It's also why I think we've generally been techno-pessimistic in the West since the late 19 sixties, early seventies, is because technology has been viewed as this point of leverage for creating a power system for a minority of the people.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 7:40 David Friedberg We, we had, it seemed like three decades of incredible collaboration, uh, with China, and the West, and America specifically, and just look at what happened with the iPhone and the number of people who, who, um, rose out of poverty, um, in… 2 times in the scene
E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more
- ▶ 47:57 Jason Calacanis That's what the West should do. 2 times in the scene
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:21:29 Jason Calacanis In the West.
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 20:25 David Friedberg You know, in all cases, some sort of autocratic regime seems to have emerged because of this populist movement that we're now seeing, not just in the US, but across the West.
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- ▶ 1:16:17 Jason Calacanis Uh, is it a, is it a major win for NATO in the West? 2 times in the scene
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- ▶ 12:58 Jason Calacanis And then of course the right or people who are pro Russian or anti the West backing this war are gonna take the other side, Freberg. 4 times in the scene
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 27:39 Jason Calacanis Until the West confirms any of this, I think.
- ▶ 32:18 David Sacks So this idea that this war has made the West stronger is depleting the West over an objective we didn't need to fight. 2 times in the scene
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 58:09 Jason Calacanis Seems like a leveling up kind of game because you can't put it past either party in some cases, but in the case of Nord Stream, people saying, hey, it was the Ukraine, but then there's this argument that the Ukraine's not capable of doing…
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 48:30 Jason Calacanis They're doing all, putting all their money into venture capital in the West, private equity and the rest, real estate in the West. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:33 Jason Calacanis The West in space, energy, cars, AI, chips, basic materials, batteries, all the stuff that's happening here on our shores.
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:35:07 David Sacks And he himself said that it was the West, the Americans who rejected it. 6 times in the scene
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 1:07:15 Jason Calacanis Their constituents, but the amount of suffering going on here is extraordinary, and I think it should be the West who is going send Macron, send somebody from Germany, send some, you know, group of people to then go to Ukraine and work… 3 times in the scene
E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
- ▶ 54:15 Chamath Palihapitiya There are the messenger RNA vaccines, that's the BioNTech and Pfizer ones, and then there are the more regular ones that in many cases the West was dumping on.
- ▶ 1:18:34 Jason Calacanis I think what's going on here is, and I suspected this, you know, from the beginning, is that we are trying to engage them in a war of attrition, and it's working, and so I think the West, collectively, is trying to further that goal of… 3 times in the scene
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 32:42 David Friedberg Can the West afford this given the economic slowdowns and inflation right now?
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 55:03 Jason Calacanis This is kind of what I thought the plan all along was, which was to deplete Putin of resources, distract him, and then, uh, get the West off of his oil and, and, and try to do regime change, but do it by bleeding him.
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 59:14 Chamath Palihapitiya I think it's going to be a, he's going to run roughshod, not just domestically, but also internationally, because you have to remember, he controls so much of the critical supply chain that the Western world needs to be.
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
- ▶ 1:10:31 Jason Calacanis Should the West force Ukraine to accept these type of terms, essentially elections, and I don't know why Crimea wouldn't be part of that election process.
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 1:04:36 Jason Calacanis He, he doesn't have the army, he doesn't have the weapons, uh, compared to the West, and he's been exhausted, you know, and I think his, he's spent now.
- ▶ 1:13:28 David Sacks And then what is the response to the West? 2 times in the scene
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 32:31 Chamath Palihapitiya He was really, really sharp and concise about this, which is that, you know, in the West, when leaders fail in their objectives, they just get elected out and somebody else takes their place. 3 times in the scene
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 33:38 David Friedberg And then the, the face saving will be from the West will be, Hey, we got him to give up this. 4 times in the scene
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 26:14 David Friedberg Generally, you see it throughout Western life and specifically throughout American life.
E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more
- ▶ 36:46 Jason Calacanis Uh, and you know, the West now becoming unified, say what you will about the NATO membership and the timing of it. 4 times in the scene
E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- ▶ 52:24 Chamath Palihapitiya I think before they tried to heed sort of, you know, the West's directives and they said, okay, well, let's build a land bank and we'll put a bunch of money in.
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 50:53 David Sacks And they were contrasting that with a chaotic Western response. 3 times in the scene
E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
- ▶ 1:21:45 David Sacks I, I think the Western Alliance is gonna fracture come this winter. 3 times in the scene
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 1:18:27 Jason Calacanis The West, you know, kind of doesn't have a choice to stand up to dictators or else they will roll into other countries history has shown that so as messy as this is and as terrible as it is for the economy.
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 1:14:45 David Sacks And they were saying it was going to lead to a new birth of freedom in the West, that it was strengthening our alliances. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:47 David Sacks And that's when you're going to see a real fracture in the Western Alliance. 3 times in the scene
E82: All-In Summit: Claire Cormier Thielke on China + Q&A with Flexport's Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 55:53 Claire Cormier Thielke We're all in this for a long-term, right, play, and whether, you know, you take maybe the spicier view around, you know, resources and protectionism, uh, versus one that's more just around progress, and as we may have an increasingly…
E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- ▶ 6:44 David Sacks And, you know, and look, there's no shortage of, of neocons and liberal interventionists who are all saying this war is wonderful for us because it's reunited the American Alliance and the Western Alliance, and that this has been, this war… 2 times in the scene
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 32:13 David Friedberg This has happened historically, over cycles that last hundreds of years, and it's happening now in the United States and in the entire Western world.
E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 59:58 Brad Gerstner That is on full display by the West right now that I think has really significant implications, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:00 David Sacks Since 2014 in this Donbass region between Ukrainians and these sort of, these Russian speakers, and now that civil wars, as this is a Balkan style civil war that has now escalated with, you know, Ukraine and Russia getting in, and now the…
- ▶ 1:09:10 Brad Gerstner And how is the West possibly going to trust him to withdraw? 2 times in the scene
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 4:14 David Sacks And then the West now wants to stand behind the whole country of Ukraine. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:49 David Sacks So, I think Putin miscalculated the resolve of Zelensky and the West. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:38 Jason Calacanis You know, their back would be too bad from the west.
- ▶ 56:19 David Sacks Here's what I would, well, here's what I think is, I think Putin underestimated, uh, Zelensky's resolve, Ukrainian resolve, and I'd say the West resolve.
- ▶ 1:02:07 Jason Calacanis Russia back in, uh, talks with the West.
E70: EMERGENCY POD! Russia invades Ukraine: Reactions, Putin's ambition, Biden's response and more
- ▶ 15:02 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think the West is going to be very punitive financially.
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 1:15:27 David Sacks When the West wanted to come in and investigate what happened in this lab, China approved one person from the West to come in and conduct the investigation. 2 times in the scene
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 54:02 Jason Calacanis Maybe in the West we do. 4 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 20:22 David Sacks And what they say is that, that within the CCP, or at least Xi's view of it, capitalism was just something they did as an interim measure to catch up to the West. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:32 Jason Calacanis Balaji, why do we, why did everybody in the West get this so wrong? 6 times in the scene
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 1:06:49 Jason Calacanis Democracy, like in the way we want them to be, and the West wants them to be.
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