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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

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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E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure Dec 04, 2021

Show notes

(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 stay? What's the 10-year outlook?

(44:57) Anticipating a "Great Resignation" of successful VCs

(54:45) Tech people ruining Art Basel, comparing Bay Area / South Florida immigrant communities in terms of political activity, success of Indian-Americans in tech

(1:02:08) Mike Bloomberg donates $750M to charter schools

(1:07:52) Jack Dorsey's departure from Twitter, what it means for free speech

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Referenced in the show:

https://twitter.com/trvrb

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115463

https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1466799350990839810

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1465037481187987457

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-set-to-create-new-stateowned-rare-earths-giant-11638545586

https://www.shippingandfreightresource.com/china-us-freight-rates-plunge-but-china-manufacturing-woes-create-new-headaches-for-shippers

https://fortune.com/2021/08/09/lumber-prices-down-2018-levels

https://twitter.com/rabois/status/1466816803418615812

https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1465393612577853440

https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-bloomberg-why-im-backing-charter-schools-covid-19-learning-loss-teachers-union-11638371324

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/18/1012066/emtech-stage-twitters-cto-on-misinformation

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/twitter-is-about-to-get-way-worse

E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government Nov 20, 2021

Show notes

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. government inefficiency

1:07:08 Pete Davidson's pull, Sacks' taste in music, wrap

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Referenced in the show:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/18/constitutiondao-crypto-investors-lose-bid-to-buy-constitution-copy.html

https://twitter.com/constitutiondao

https://www.constitutiondao.com

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/11/19/constitutiondao-outbid-for-first-printing-of-americas-founding-document-in-sothebys-auction/

https://youtu.be/1TBa-9Lx3vc?t=8762

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-closing-arguments-self-defense/

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/19/us/kyle-rittenhouse-trial

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1461372314424164367

https://www.wsj.com/articles/citadel-ceo-ken-griffin-outbid-a-group-of-crypto-investors-for-copy-of-u-s-constitution-11637352087

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/us/politics/biden-build-back-better-act.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/amazon-to-stop-accepting-visa-credit-cards-issued-in-the-uk.html

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1461007806333693959

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/sam-altman-puts-375-million-into-fusion-start-up-helion-energy.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/bill-gates-terrapower-builds-its-first-nuclear-reactor-in-a-coal-town.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZ4MfOiqm8

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emily-ratajkowski-women-find-pete-davidson-attractive_n_618be849e4b06de3eb7dfbbe

E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more Nov 13, 2021

Show notes

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 >$100B valuation, greatest CNBC hit of all time

42:06 Inflation: reacting to the CPI number, problems with MMT, strategies to curb it

1:01:34 Xi Jinping becomes China's "Supreme Leader"

1:08:35 GE, Toshiba, and J&J break up into separate businesses: is this the end of the conglomerate? Insights from PayPal breaking off from eBay, what buybacks signal

1:24:44 Besties wrap the show

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Referenced in the show:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-inflation-consumer-price-index-october-2021-11636491959

https://twitter.com/denverbitcoin/status/1458900776747737093/photo/1

https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/crops/article/2021/11/10/nitrogen-fertilizer-prices-shatter-1

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-tests-israels-iron-dome-in-guam-as-defense-against-chinese-cruise-missiles-11636455224

https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1458443966135902221

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2017/02/two-tales-of-federal-debt

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-xi-gains-power-as-communist-party-designates-him-historical-figure-11636635312

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/ge-to-break-up-into-3-companies-focusing-on-aviation-healthcare-and-energy.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/toshiba-like-ge-plans-to-split-into-three-parts-11636700609?st=e6zgv5yq433lvr3&reflink=article_imessage_share

https://investor.pypl.com/news-and-events/news-details/2021/Response-to-Market-Rumors-of-Discussions-Between-PayPal-and-Pinterest/default.aspx

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-spent-nearly-20-billion-on-stock-buybacks-in-q4-at-average-prices-below-the-vwap-2021-10-29

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/which-companies-spend-the-most-in-research-and-development-rd-2021-06-21

E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses Nov 06, 2021

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Show Notes:

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 distributions and evergreen funds, why Friedberg went the startup studio route

30:36 How DAOs fit in to the capital allocation landscape, the balance of consumer-facing products and infrastructure solutions for web 3.0

35:24 Zillow's iBuying implosion

46:05 Wokelash: Progressive democrats take huge hit on election day 2021, what are American voters looking for?

1:14:57 New CO2 to starch conversion discovered by Chinese researchers, future climate incentives

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Referenced in the show:

https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1455553539552382979

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-01/zillow-selling-7-000-homes-for-2-8-billion-after-flipping-halt

https://twitter.com/RTanuku/status/1456324783809826819

https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/elections-2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/nyregion/stephen-sweeney-durr-nj-election.html

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/republican-ann-davison-defeats-nicole-thomas-kennedy-to-become-seattles-first-woman-city-attorney

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/us/politics/democrat-losses-2022.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curriculum-guidelines.html

https://nypost.com/2021/11/01/mcauliffe-claims-everybody-clapped-after-classroom-comment

https://www.newsweek.com/cnn-van-jones-glenn-youngkin-delta-variant-trumpism-1645303

https://twitter.com/patrickruffini/status/1454792424488902656

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/10/17/if-taxes-are-your-issue-njs-not-for-you-murphy-says-comment-taken-out-of-context/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh4049

https://twitter.com/friedberg/status/1454482267707899909

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/28/blah-greta-thunberg-leaders-climate-crisis-co2-emissions

https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-finance-china-india-11636039142

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tariffs-climate-change-greenhouse-gases-manufacturing-steel-11635862305

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1454808104256737289

E53: Wealth tax, dealing with inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, Facebook's rebrand, paternity leave & more Oct 30, 2021

Show notes

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 capital allocator

58:49 Big Tech's outrageous quarterly earnings, why Google is the best business ever, Facebook's "Meta" rebrand

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Referenced in the show:

https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/1453399478254379008

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/26/698057356/if-a-wealth-tax-is-such-a-good-idea-why-did-europe-kill-theirs

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/pages/textview.aspx?data=yield

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1049980529/starbucks-and-costco-raising-wages-in-the-nationwide-competition-for-workers

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/crypto-investor-turned-8000-into-5-billion-buying-shiba-inu-2021-10

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-29/tesla-s-tsla-hidden-billionaire-how-one-retail-investor-made-7-billion

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TOST/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-overtakes-apple-as-most-valuable-company-11635516976

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q3_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=f1ba3f6

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1450108244915937284

https://www.theverge.com/22743744/facebook-teen-usage-decline-frances-haugen-leaks

https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdYPqdJ6/

E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand Oct 23, 2021

Show notes

Show Notes:

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 landscape

44:56 Tech's global role: are we still in the early days, as opposed to a bubble? Wealth shaming, upward mobility

58:58 Democrats overplaying their hand, Netflix discourse, and more

1:17:41 Pig kidney biological innovation

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Referenced in the show:

https://www.tmtgcorp.com/press-releases/announcement-10-20-2021

https://www.tmtgcorp.com/company-overview

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/trump-social-media-spac-digital-world-acquisition-corp-surges-another-100percent.html

https://twitter.com/scienceisstrat1/status/1450723760806379520

https://www.wsj.com/articles/venture-returns-keep-climbing-mystifying-some-industry-veterans-11634554801

https://files.pitchbook.com/website/files/pdf/Q3_2021_PitchBook-NVCA_Venture_Monitor.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/amherst-college-legacy-admissions.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/dorian-abbot-mit.html

https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/michael-che-elon-musk-snl.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/20/tech-billionaire-aiding-facebook-whistleblower-516358

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-20/china-slams-effeminate-men-in-xi-s-mounting-push-for-conformity

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/health/kidney-transplant-pig-human.html

https://pandaily.com/top-livestream-salesman-li-jiaqi-records-1-7-billion-in-sales-in-first-11-11-livestream-viya-follows

E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A Oct 16, 2021

Show notes

Show Notes:

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 Question 2

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Referenced in the show:

Statista - The U.S. Car Models Most Impacted By The Microchip Shortage

Zack Kanter on Twitter - "The "supply chain crisis" is a clever rebrand"

Naithan Jones on Twitter - NFTs

Daily Breeze - No start date for 24/7 operations at Port of LA

LA Daily News - Port of LA to go to 24/7 operations, Biden announces

Nikkei Asia - TSMC announces plans to build first chip plant in Japan

St. Louis Fed - Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product

Forbes - Druckenmiller Blasts Fed's 'Radical' Stimulus Policy

David Sacks on Twitter - Desantis Dinner

Variety - Ted Sarandos Doubles Down

The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke

CFTC Orders Tether and Bitfinex to Pay Fines Totaling $42.5 Million

NBC - Most adults shouldn't take daily aspirin

Botched - Man Wins $100,000 Breast Implants Bet!

E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more Oct 09, 2021

Show notes

Show Notes:

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, institutional money in crypto

40:59 Facebook whistleblower, potential ramifications & regulation

57:10 Comparing potential Facebook regulation to Microsoft regulation in the 1990s

1:02:34 Is decentralization a solution for social media?

1:09:09 Chappelle's controversial new special, All-In summit & more

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Referenced in the show:

https://coinmarketcap.com

https://www.bitgo.com/newsroom/press-releases/galaxy-digital-to-acquire-bitgo

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/30/fed-chair-powell-says-he-has-no-intention-of-banning-crypto/

https://www.bitwiseinvestments.com

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-mystery-where-s-the-69-billion-backing-the-stablecoin-tether

https://twitter.com/KariyaKanav/status/1446207805220917252

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/sec-gensler-calls-out-utility-tokens-in-european-crypto-asset-briefing/

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/06/fantasy-equity-nft-game-wants-you-to-spend-real-money-buying-fake-shares-of-real-startups/

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/07/fantasy-startup-investing-nft-platform-visionrare-shuts-down-paid-marketplace-after-a-day-in-open-beta/

https://nypost.com/2015/06/14/141m-sculpture-may-point-to-top/

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/i-wanted-to-share-a-note-i-wrote-to-everyone-at-our-company-hey-everyone-its-bee/10113961365418581

https://www.netflix.com/title/81228510

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1446245636563619840

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/144624654499108864

E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns, tax reform & more Oct 02, 2021

Show notes

Show Notes:

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 coverage, Merck COVID pill

45:51 Golden Age of VC, 1000 unicorns & the impact on private/public markets

57:45 Corporate tax reform, Roth IRAs & the "Peter Thiel Provision"

1:06:36 Chances of a VC bubble, why notable VCs are retiring, building a modern venture firm

1:23:51 All-In summit planning

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Referenced in the show:

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company-af882df8804

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1443727729476530178

https://blockchain.news/news/workers-quit-coinbase-exchange-apolitical-stance

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1443846265582735362

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/psychological-dimensions-left-wing-authoritarianism/620185/

https://ktla.com/news/california/gov-newsom-to-make-major-announcement-on-efforts-to-protect-teachers-students-from-covid/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/merck-to-seek-emergency-authorization-for-oral-covid-19-treatment.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/university-endowments-mint-billions-in-golden-era-of-venture-capital-11632907802

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/crunchbase-unicorn-board-1000-companies/

https://siblisresearch.com/data/us-stock-market-value/

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-number-of-companies-publicly-traded-in-the-us-is-shrinkingor-is-it-2020-10-30

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/house-tax-bill-would-likely-force-peter-thiel-to-pull-5-billion-from-his-ira.html

E48: The role of decentralization, China/US break down & more with Bestie Guestie Balaji Srinivasan Sep 25, 2021

Show notes

Show Notes:

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 China declares crypto transactions illegal, comparing and contrasting the US and China's future outlook

39:43 Chances of a revolution in China, predictions for the next 1-2 decades

48:37 Decentralized citizen journalism, the end of corporate journalism

58:11 Facebook's tough stretch continues: leaker might come forward with SEC, lawsuit over FTC payouts, public sentiment turning on big tech, decentralized social media

1:18:43 How decentralized media platforms would work mechanically

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Referenced in the show:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-declares-bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrency-transactions-illegal-11632479288

https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinping-aims-to-rein-in-chinese-capitalism-hew-to-maos-socialist-vision-11632150725

https://www.readingthechinadream.com/

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1993-06-01/clash-civilizations

https://www.amazon.com/End-History-Last-Man/dp/0743284550

https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Chain-Defending-America-High-Tech/dp/031653353X?asin=031653353X&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Lady-Winked-Misreporting-Fabrications/dp/1736703307

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/12/vitalik-buterin-donates-1-billion-worth-of-meme-coins-to-india-covid-relief-fund/

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1386288771872673793?lang=en

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1386024429629558784?s=20

https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Machine-Blockchain-Future-Everything/dp/1250114578

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOWRembdPS8

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/23/facebook-testify-kids-safety-lawmakers-probe-whistleblowers-revelations/

https://www.facebook.com/business/news/navigating-change-and-improving-performance-and-measurement

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/facebook-paid-billions-extra-to-the-ftc-to-spare-zuckerberg-in-data-suit-shareholders-allege-513456

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-177

https://www.wsj.com/articles/voters-want-to-curb-the-influence-of-big-tech-companies-new-poll-shows-11632405601?st=qnnf9nvvwigp

https://medium.com/craft-ventures/masks-should-be-the-law-3f53f08709cc

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/01/social-media-ads-russia-wanted-americans-to-see-244423

https://balajis.com/yes-you-may-need-a-blockchain/

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