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!
(0:43) Reacting to Slate's article on All-In
(11:18) SF business owner caught spraying homeless person on camera
(29:22) Microsoft to invest $10B into OpenAI with unique terms, g…
(0:00) Bestie New Year catch-up!
(2:44) Prediction 1: 2023's biggest political winner
(17:25) Prediction 2: 2023's biggest political loser
(21:57) Prediction 3: 2023's biggest business winner
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(0:00) Bestie catch up!
(3:05) Kicking off the 2022 Bestie Awards
(4:12) Biggest winner in politics
(9:11) Biggest loser in politics
(16:37) Biggest political surprise
(23:35) Biggest winner in busin…
(0:00) Jason's new gig!
(1:05) Twitter's new privacy rules, notable suspension, doxing dynamics
(20:48) Nuclear fusion breakthrough and geopolitical ramifications
(42:58) Jason and Sacks's big night
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(0:00) Bestie gut health!
(2:17) Twitter Files Part 2: shadow banning and blacklisting entire accounts and topics; how content moderation was handled at other tech giants
(33:09) Twitter Files Part 1…
(0:00) Bestie hangover!
(1:05) Analyzing SBF's media tour: his angle, media coverage, and more
(21:09) FTX culpability: media, investors, regulators
(53:41) Challenging media coverage of other countr…
0:00 Bestie intros!
2:19 Trump announces 2024 presidential bid
26:07 Each bestie names their most important policy issue for 2024
59:03 Big tech belt-tightening, activist investor calls out Google, p…
(0:00) New bestie game show!
(6:20) Election recap: Red wave falls flat, Republican party flips from Trump to DeSantis, a rebuke of extremism
(20:47) Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong joins to break down …
(0:00) Jason's new brand deal
(1:18) Bestie updates
(9:12) "Ligma/Johnson" blunder outside of Twitter HQ
(15:38) Surge of tech layoffs at Twitter, Stripe, Lyft, Opendoor, Chime and others; preparing …
(0:00) Sacks is back!
(1:01) Sacks recaps his week off
(3:13) Elon finalizes Twitter deal, immediate content moderation decisions, platform potential
(31:19) Meta's historic bet on VR and stock price…
(0:00) Bestie intros: Brad Gerstner joins in place of Sacks, and brigadoons!
(2:02) Ye's current situation and acquisition of Parler
(14:17) Snap drops ~30%, corporate misgovernance, super-voting sha…
(0:00) Bestie intros are back!
(6:35) Reflecting on the first 100 episodes and what makes the show special
(29:12) Fan questions: Building in a downturn, how to be successful in tech, importance of u…
0:00 Bestie intros!
1:34 Breaking down major cheating scandals: chess, poker, fishing
16:13 Twitter deal updates
30:05 AI making rapid advancements: Tesla AI Day, Meta's text-to-video tool, where thi…
0:00 Bestie intros!
1:36 Big tech starts making cuts, plus what this means for the broader economy and startups
31:09 Global debt numbers, Fed incompetency
54:06 RIP Coolio
1:00:30 Russia / Ukraine u…
0:00 Bestie intros!
1:03 SPAC updates, state of the public/private markets
20:26 US VCs have $290B in dry powder and raised a record amount in H1 2022, is the market nearing a bottom?
31:14 Risks of …
0:00 Bestie intro!
0:59 Adobe agrees to acquire Figma for $20B
19:21 How Adobe might bundle Figma, regulatory implications
38:59 Analyzing Google's "one off" acquisition of YouTube
49:33 Friedberg br…
0:00 Bestie intros: Luxury brand influencers, Birthday Party stories and more!
3:34 Jason reflects on the final Kara Swisher-hosted Code Conference, All-In media and hit piece requests
12:53 Passing …
(0:00) Bestie intros + Burning Man debate
(4:16) NFT trading volume plummets
(10:20) California's new fast food wages bill, government creating bad incentives, how the free market response will furth…
0:00 Bestie intros!
1:25 Twitter's former head of security makes allegations against the company
22:08 Foreign countries placing government agents in US tech companies, cloud security vulnerabilities
…0:00 Bestie intro plus a new moderator!
7:19 Adam Neumann raises $350M from a16z for his new residential real estate startup Flow
25:32 Housing policy: Bay Area, Houston, Miami differences
45:41 Chin…