Industry veterans, degenerate gamblers & besties Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks & David Friedberg cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.
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Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America
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28:58(0:00) Introducing Eric Schmidt (1:59) Thoughts on remote work and work-life balance (3:49) Approaching AI: US vs China (8:04) Relativity Space, rockets, drones, defense, and more (17:32) Future role of America, and the decline of the West (21:51) AGI: boom or bust? Thanks to our partners for making this happen! Solana - Solana is the high performa…
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Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire
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1:22:22(0:00) Reacting to Charlie Kirk's death: impact, legacy, and what's wrong in America (15:27) Assassination culture in America, online radicalization (30:37) Jimmy Kimmel suspended indefinitely by ABC (49:11) The Ellison Media Empire: Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery, TikTok (1:01:09) Besties discover their recent YouTube videos have been flagged as…
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Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
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25:07(0:00) Introducing Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko (0:55) Crypto under Trump vs Biden, stablecoin boom, what it means for US treasuries (5:56) Traditional exchanges using blockchain vs crypto-native exchanges, how crypto gets mass market (10:02) Most exciting crypto verticals outside of finance: social, IP rights, real estate, CLARITY Act (15:5…
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on self-driving's future, changing business model, job displacement
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25:38(0:00) Introducing Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (0:59) Uber’s self-driving business: partnerships, market size, LiDAR vs computer vision, safety, distribution (8:14) How self-driving impacts Uber’s business model over time (13:30) Other forms of transportation Uber could provide (16:09) $20B stock buyback plan vs. investing in R&D and acquisitions, f…
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The College Crisis: Heads of Dartmouth & Berkeley Debate the Decline of US Universities
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37:08(0:00) Introducing Dartmouth President Sian Beilock and Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons (1:14) The student loan burden (8:03) DEI at US universities (13:56) Administrative bloat (16:12) Trump vs the Ivy League, viewpoint diversity (21:56) Impact of K-12 education declining (25:13) Will AI learning kill higher education? (29:14) Rising unemployment a…
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Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She’s Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies
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41:54(0:00) Introducing Tulsi Gabbard, US Director of National Intelligence (1:21) The Russiagate Hoax Conspiracy and the dangers of highly politicized intelligence agencies (17:31) Russian interference in 2016, cleaning up intelligence agencies, increasing accountability (25:54) How Tulsi is received in her home state of Hawaii after switching parties,…
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
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26:09(0:00) Introducing Vlad Tenev (0:51) Jason tells his story of investing in Robinhood (3:17) Tokenizing securities, offering tokenized shares in OpenAI and SpaceX, controversy (7:29) Operating under Trump vs Biden, why offering tokenized securities for private companies could be revolutionary (17:01) Criticisms around expanding access to sophisticat…
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AI, Creativity, and a Golden Age of Science | All-In Summit
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31:48(0:00) Introducing Sir Demis Hassabis, reflecting on his Nobel Prize win (2:39) What is Google DeepMind? How does it interact with Google and Alphabet? (4:01) Genie 3 world model (9:21) State of robotics models, form factors, and more (14:42) AI science breakthroughs, measuring AGI (20:49) Nano-Banana and the future of creative tools, democratizati…
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Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding
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44:48(0:00) Introducing Elon Musk, and reflecting on his DOGE experience (2:47) Optimus: Progress and potential, the “hands problem” (12:20) Tesla: AI5 chips, impact on FSD (16:50) SpaceX: Vision for Starlink-enabled smartphones, $17B spectrum deal, Starship update (26:16) xAI: Next-gen Grok models, Colossus 2, scaling laws, “Grokipedia” (31:29) Evolvin…
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win
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40:14(0:00) Introducing Palantir CEO Alex Karp (1:10) Understanding Palantir's fans and haters (8:40) Palantir’s work at the border, data collection and surveillance, built-in protections (20:02) Israel/Palestine (22:23) Is the West committing suicide? (30:54) Antisemitism (31:52) China’s strategy, dealing with cartels (36:46) Why modern Progressivism i…
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The New Era of the Stock Market with Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman | All-In Summit 2025
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28:21(0:00) Introducing Adena Friedman (1:16) Nasdaq's business, expanding beyond a stock exchange (2:44) Big announcement! Nasdaq will offer tokenized securities, crypto going mainstream, the 24/5 trading schedule (7:21) How the IPO market can change to help companies go public faster (13:37) Evolution of markets: predictions, options, SPVs, secondarie…
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How to Save America: Mark Cuban and Tucker Carlson Debate | All-In Summit 2025
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59:43(0:00) Introducing Mark Cuban, sadness over Luka Doncic (2:38) America’s broken healthcare system (15:16) State of the two-party system (19:24) Introducing Tucker Carlson (20:01) The fine line between listening and pandering, is Mamdani the Trump of the Left? (24:27) How to make Americans believe in America again (34:12) AI job displacement (39:29)…
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright on the Future of American Energy | All-In Summit 2025
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30:36(0:00) Introducing Secretary Wright (1:09) Nuclear, China’s approach (4:02) Increasing energy output, how the climate change complex slowed us down, problems with solar and wind (11:32) Debating renewables vs nat gas and coal (18:40) Chamath’s energy framework (21:42) Addressing challenges: budget cuts to research labs, residential energy cost incr…
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Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
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1:07:05(0:00) Bestie intros (0:52) Behind the scenes of the White House Tech Dinner! (28:39) Tariff showdown headed to the Supreme Court (42:44) Other Trump Administration legal battles (46:58) Weak jobs report: what is the state of the economy? (57:52) Google avoids worst-case scenario in antitrust case Follow the besties: https://x.com/chamath https://x…
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Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
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1:07:53(0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Senator Rand Paul: background, family, what led him to medicine first (3:56) Career Change: Medicine to Politics (7:03) Political Philosophy (10:55) Trade Policy & Economic Impact (15:52) Consequences of Tariffs (20:43) Voting Against the One Big Beautiful Bill (27:52) AI & the Economy (35:10) Our Fragile Financial S…
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Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
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1:31:34(0:00) Bestie intros: The Moose is loose at J-Cal Ranch! (0:46) All-In Summit updates, Jason's new program (9:45) Trump vs the Federal Reserve: Is the Fed partisan, what should a modern Fed look like? (36:45) US-Intel Deal: Sustainability, China comparison, could deals like this save Social Security? (51:37) US Sovereign Wealth Fund (58:41) Why cor…
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AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
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1:11:45(0:00) Bestie intros (1:59) What's new with the All-In Summit (9:02) AI Mania hits the brakes: sign of a bubble or a healthy correction? (30:49) Meta's AI hiring freeze: are the AI talent wars slowing down? (39:09) Gavin Newsom is the early favorite to be the 2028 Democratic nominee (54:03) Russia/Ukraine: Trump's two summits, what endgame to expec…
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