Industry veterans, degenerate gamblers & besties Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks & David Friedberg cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.
0:00 Bestie intro and poker recap
3:14 Elizabeth Holmes verdict, origins of the fraud, breakdown of the Theranos promise
17:51 Lessons for founders and investors from the Theranos debacle, bad behavi…
(0:00) Recapping the "Superspreader"
(6:12) Predicting 2022's biggest political winner
(11:57) Predicting 2022's biggest political loser
(19:07) Predicting 2022's biggest business winner
(25:47) Pred…
(0:00) Catching up on the Web3 wars and Jack Dorsey sounding off
(5:10) Biggest Winner - Politics
(9:43) Biggest Loser - Politics
(14:37) Biggest Political Surprise
(22:24) Biggest Winner - Business
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(0:00) Bestie Intro: Sweater update, NYC stories
(8:30) Sacks got flagged on Twitter, theorizing on Twitter's content warning algorithm
(14:37) "Racial equity audits" with product-level consequences …
0:00 Bestie Intro: Chamath's happy hour and sweater feud
7:11 Breaking down the new 6.8% CPI number, reflecting on old inflation takes, jobs report, understanding why CPI is misleading
23:05 How grow…
(0:00) Bestie Intro: Miami talk, gambling stories, Nancy Pelosi's retirement plans
(12:30) Understanding the Omicron variant
(24:49) Tech stocks plummet: why the selloff?
(33:44) Inflation: here to s…
0:00 Bestie intro
1:14 Constitution DAO: implications, shortcomings, how to move forward?
29:58 Rittenhouse trial media coverage
50:52 Ken Griffin plays heel (again), private sector efficiency vs. go…
0:00 Bestie intro and Solana Breakpoint talk
4:43 Covering the censored segment from last week, how to value crypto projects and general investing, what to take away from the podcast
30:45 Rivian's >…
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0:00 Besties do a Microsoft-themed intro
7:53 Spread trading big tech, amazing power of Google and Microsoft
17:28 Sacks speaks about Bird going public from the NYSE, understanding distri…
0:00 Bestie intro, child update, Joe Lonsdale’s take on paternity leave
20:44 Proposed “Wealth Tax”
35:13 Inflation discussion: corporate and government reactions
52:30 Dealing with inflation as a ca…
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0:00 Bestie weight loss strategies, poker recap
13:19 Trump SPAC, how he can leverage the capital intelligently, building vs. acquiring, and more
33:43 Peak venture returns, tech landscap…
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00:00 Cold Open
01:19 Titles
01:01 Intro Banter
04:24 Supply chain, labor shortage,
34:04 Taiwan
43:14 Sacks Desantis
47:00 Dave Chappelle
01:08:24 FDA
01:23:27 Question 1
01:27:08 Quest…
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0:00 Mercury is in retrograde & impacting the besties
2:01 Sacks on Solana, sophisticated crypto strategies, crypto deep dive
26:23 Building regulatory framework for utility tokens, insti…
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0:00 Brian Armstrong follows up on his one-year old blog post "Coinbase is a mission focused company"
19:27 Authoritarianism on the left
33:04 Newsom's new vaccine mandate, NBA vaccine co…
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0:00 Bestie Guestie Balaji Srinivasan is introduced
6:01 Balaji's day in the life, Coinbase background, comparing crypto with early 2000's p2p music industry, China's lawful evil
16:09 Ch…
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0:00 Besties intro, TPB Symposium recap, rapid generations in tech
7:00 UBI, incentives for success, social safety nets
19:45 Newsom's recall victory in California, where the GOP went wro…
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0:00 Open: LIVE from TPB Symposium
1:18 False Ivermectin story fools Rolling Stone, Rachel Maddow & more
15:47 Biden's recently announced vaccine mandates, why US hasn't been able to solv…
Show Notes: 00:00 Besties recap, it's Chamath's Birthday, Callin app 08:58 What should protocol be for conferences & live events? 12:58 Fake it before you make it, the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos trial…
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0:00 Intro & Italy recap
12:06 An embarrassment in Afghanistan: breaking down how it happened
34:49 China's potential checkmate in Afghanistan, CCP cracking down on IPOs & algos
1:00:27 R…
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0:00 Big week for the besties: Friedberg's new raise, Sacks' new fund & more
16:30 Innovative venture strategies: internal mark ups, venture studios, deployment strategies
30:44 Zymergen'…