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Dan Dreyfus: The Next AI Bottleneck is Copper
- ▶ 1:33 Dan Dreyfus They bought WhatsApp for thirty billion dollars with 12 employees.
Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
- ▶ 17:47 Bill Ackman Right, when he bought, I don't know, Instagram, everyone's like shocked at the price paid, or WhatsApp, you know, they seemed like, you know, sort of outside the, you know, the company only had whatever, 19 employees or something when he…
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 47:32 Jason Calacanis So Gmail, Notion, Slack, WhatsApp, maybe even your password manager. 2 times in the scene
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- ▶ 3:08 Jason Calacanis Whether the Google fund, the WhatsApp fund, which one has the highest multiple in history?
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 34:26 David Friedberg Um, they integrate with tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and Unified Voice, SMS, WhatsApp, social channels, um, into one solution, and you get three months of free Aircall if you go to aircall.io slash all in.
- ▶ 1:14:24 David Friedberg And unlike voice, SMS, WhatsApp, um, and social, Unify, uh, into one reliable solution.
Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
- ▶ 45:13 Chamath Palihapitiya We know that there are security vulnerabilities, for example, in WhatsApp, it's riddled with stuff. 2 times in the scene
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 1:14:25 Chamath Palihapitiya Pegasus was able to reverse engineer or build penetration attacks into WhatsApp that were imperceptible to everybody until it happened to Jeff Bezos, to other people, right?
LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
- ▶ 1:22:51 Jason Calacanis So it would be very similar to the WhatsApp.
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 58:06 Chamath Palihapitiya Keith, do you think that the Pegasus spyware that can infiltrate WhatsApp so that you can turn on the mic and listen remotely 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:42 Chamath Palihapitiya For the public currency to have bought WhatsApp. 3 times in the scene
Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 1:04:46 Jason Calacanis And this is the reason I think many people in the government were concerned about the attack vector that the CCP would have in the United States since they still control the company for services like Snapchat, LinkedIn and WhatsApp and… 3 times in the scene
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 14:15 Chamath Palihapitiya So that would mean WhatsApp,
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- ▶ 11:25 Chamath Palihapitiya It's predominantly on WhatsApp and Facebook and Meta, and I don't know what to do because I, we work together with them, we shut it down.
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 6:42 Jason Calacanis Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are integrating a search box or their AI assistant chat box into all their apps.
- ▶ 17:40 Jason Calacanis And then they've put a search box at the top of Instagram, WhatsApp,
- ▶ 1:25:07 Chamath Palihapitiya Like typically, I think WhatsApp and a lot of these other folks just use pretty standard signal.
E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- ▶ 1:00:55 Jason Calacanis And then Google and Facebook, man, they went on heaters, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, and that was the golden age of M&A.
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 45:01 David Sacks Remember Met or Facebook buying WhatsApp for, what was it, seventeen billion?
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 1:41:25 Chamath Palihapitiya So then the question is, well, obviously then Facebook will want to train their models on Instagram and their models on WhatsApp.
E150: Israel/Gaza escalating or not? EU censorship regime, Penn donors revolt, GLP-1 hype cycle
- ▶ 1:01:32 Chamath Palihapitiya You can communicate in certain ways through WhatsApp.
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 44:40 Jason Calacanis Graham and WhatsApp were also in the fund either before it or with it. 4 times in the scene
E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
- ▶ 8:14 Brad Gerstner I also think they're going to launch a bunch of agents on WhatsApp and Instagram.
- ▶ 23:32 Brad Gerstner Zuckerberg alludes to the fact that they're gonna have action bots on WhatsApp and Instagram in the not too distant future.
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 43:37 Brad Gerstner And he, he, he thinks of WhatsApp and all of his platforms as the new open web where all of these agents will live and you'll interact with them.
- ▶ 1:32:58 Brad Gerstner If I'm Instagram or WhatsApp, like they'll buy me. 2 times in the scene
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 1:33:05 Chamath Palihapitiya In a world of machine learning where an AI where theoretically you can have conversational languages inside of WhatsApp or Messenger or Instagram, you see this beautiful picture, you're like, book me a ticket to that place.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 22:54 Chamath Palihapitiya They want to be able to enable Instagram users and WhatsApp users and Facebook users to interact through messenger or what have you.
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 20:27 Chamath Palihapitiya Yeah, it's a WhatsApp group. 2 times in the scene
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 15:58 Chamath Palihapitiya Atlassian, Tesla, Uber, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, incredible businesses that have created tremendous value.
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 1:21:51 Jason Calacanis Um, Iran has shut off internet access, internet access in parts of Tehran, and blocked access to Instagram and WhatsApp to try to stop these protests.
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 14:01 Jason Calacanis It's a transformative deal in the same way the WhatsApp deal was for Facebook.
- ▶ 37:37 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that the Facebook WhatsApp merger is probably pretty instructive, which is Jan had two years roughly where he was left alone to kind of like run independently. 2 times in the scene
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 37:20 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that's the same for WhatsApp and Instagram at Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:23 David Friedberg WhatsApp was 19 people when it was acquired, and now it's thousands, I'm certain, and Instagram's the same.
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 1:14:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Like, I think the, the last really two acquisitions that were really done well was Zuck's acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram.
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 21:38 Chamath Palihapitiya Or WhatsApp. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:05 Jason Calacanis So to dovetail this with the previous discussion sacks, funding your own company over funding of companies, we talked about, hey, if it goes well, like WhatsApp did, well, you're a genius.
- ▶ 1:14:23 Chamath Palihapitiya I wouldn't be surprised if WhatsApp and Facebook had a buy now pay later feature.
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 1:16:19 Jason Calacanis Acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 19:23 Jason Calacanis We assume it gets broken up and YouTube and Android are spun out Instagram, WhatsApp are spun out AWS is spun out.
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 26:08 Jason Calacanis Alright, India versus WhatsApp.
- ▶ 26:50 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, take WhatsApp, where a feature of the product is, uh, end to end encryption. 3 times in the scene
E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- ▶ 51:39 Jason Calacanis And what's really interesting is the same venture firm led all three rounds Allah Sequoia's investment in WhatsApp where they did all the private funding.
E23: Radical DAs, breaking down FB/Google vs. Australia, sustained fear post-vaccine & fan questions
- ▶ 40:22 Jason Calacanis Facebook has given zero dollars to Instagram users, zero dollars WhatsApp users, zero dollars to Facebook folks.
E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
- ▶ 23:32 Jason Calacanis Uh, and the oversight board is not to do the day to day policing of Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp activity, but it is to be a place where people who have been, have had content removed or have had their account suspended to appeal.
E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
- ▶ 1:03:25 Chamath Palihapitiya You're going to have to nationalize the rails of WhatsApp or the rails of Facebook if you want to be in my country.
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 17:11 Jason Calacanis So, in that way, if you look at it on a percentage basis, which is, you know, how you might look at the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is what percentage of the existing entity did they get?
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 20:56 Chamath Palihapitiya I'll even use WhatsApp now just because these things are end to end encrypted.
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 17:15 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, uh, so that's, that's the strategy, is to basically make it one monolithic code base, so that if and when, I think, I don't, I'm not sure if this is the intention, but frankly, if and when somebody knocked on the door and said, hey,… 3 times in the scene