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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.

Latest Episodes:

E37: NYC rejects far-left mayoral candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, Apple's App Store breakup potential & more Jun 25, 2021

Show notes

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks

https://twitter.com/friedberg

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https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Referenced in the show:

NYT - N.Y.C. Mayoral Race Highlights: Adams Leads in Early Results Over Wiley and Garcia

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/22/nyregion/nyc-primary-election

Vanity Fair - Eric Adams interview

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/eric-adams-nyc-mayor-interview

NY Daily News - 'We don't want fancy candidates': Eric Adams declares himself 'face of the new Democratic Party'

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nyc-elections-2021/ny-eric-adams-democratic-party-nyc-mayoral-race-20210624-oemlj42abzc7jnime4tjfddfhm-story.html

Jesse Bloom COVID origin research paper

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.449051v1

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? by Graham Allison

https://rb.gy/7vj8ks

Apple says third-party app stores would leave iPhone users vulnerable to scammers

https://fortune.com/2021/06/23/apple-iphone-third-party-app-store-users

The Pull Request - Bad Apple* by Antonio Garcia Martinez

https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/bad-apple

Show Notes:

0:00 Besties hash out a new format & the purpose of the podcast

14:31 NYC rejects far-left candidates in mayoral primary; importance of crime, homelessness & drug abuse in elections

29:29 New developments in the Wuhan lab leak theory, ramifications for our relationship with China

54:07 Congress turns the heat on up big tech, Apple's App Store monopoly in trouble

1:09:25 Antonio Garcia Martinez's first Substack article on Apple

E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more Jun 18, 2021

Show notes

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks

https://twitter.com/friedberg

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https://twitter.com/theallinpod

https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Show Notes:

00:00 Besties intro

03:37 Lina Khan appointed to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission

07:02 Will Lina break up big tech? Which one will be first?

18:02 Potential repercussions to consumers

27:48 Sacks' antitrust experience at PayPal vs. Ebay, Visa & MasterCard

29:50 Google's multi-trillion dollar data trove

35:40 The U.S. government's capability to silently take data while "gagging" Big Tech

53:32 COVID's psychic shadow, Friedberg's office landlord is still requiring masks

1:00:17 Jon Stewart's lab leak bit on Stephen Colbert's show

1:10:04 California's wildfire risk increasing with climate change

1:20:57 Besties summer plans

Referenced in the show:

Chamath's 2019 Annual Letter re: Big Tech breakup

https://www.socialcapital.com/annual-letters/2019

Big Tech Gag Order (mentioned by Sacks)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/13/microsoft-brad-smith-trump-justice-department-gag-orders/

Obama Administration Record Seizure (mentioned by Sacks)

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.html?referringSource=articleShare

California Forest fire maps (mentioned by Friedberg)

https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1398474379214802951/photo/1

Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8

#allin #tech #news

E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, real estate, Bitcoin & more Jun 13, 2021

Show notes

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Show Notes:

0:00 Bestie intro, Chamath's whereabouts

2:54 Breaking down Biogen's Alzheimer's drug & the FDA's controversial approval

26:46 Billionaire space race: Is Bezos going to space too risky or a smart marketing move? How the space industry is a perfect example of effective government intervention. Can anyone dominate space?

42:55 Big Tech getting back to the office: what is the new normal for companies with thousands of employees?

56:49 Recent factors on the commercial & private real estate markets, inflation head fake

1:05:01 ProPublica's report on billionaire tax returns

1:15:58 Bitcoin toxicity, Snowflake's CEO apologizes for comments on merit & diversity

1:32:48 Science corner with Friedberg: Induced pluripotent stem cells & cloning

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Referenced in the show:

https://www.statnews.com/2021/06/07/fda-grants-historicapproval-to-alzheimers-drug-designed-to-slow-cognitive-decline/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/harvard-expert-quits-fda-panel-as-furor-over-biogen-drug-grows

https://www.instagram.com/p/CP0MSOqnYEo

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-lets-more-employees-choose-full-time-remote-work-or-return-to-the-office-11623258049

https://news.yahoo.com/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-on-slack-acquisition-135151402.html

https://socketsite.com/archives/2021/04/visualizing-all-the-vacant-office-space-in-san-francisco.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-the-buyer-might-be-a-pension-fund-11617544801

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/Journal-Article/Buffetts-Alpha

https://www.ft.com/content/42daca9e-facc-11e7-9bfc-052cbba03425

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-07/snowflake-ceo-offers-apologies-support-for-hiring-diversity

Tweets:

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1401938511826067457

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1386825367948644352

https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1403394491143315456

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/140302318070958080

E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's "traceability" law, Coinbase's fact check, Big Tech's Hollywood takeover May 31, 2021

Show notes

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

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https://twitter.com/friedberg

Follow the pod:

https://twitter.com/theallinpod

https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Referenced in the show:

WSJ - The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-lab-leak-question-chinese-mine-covid-pandemic-11621871125

Forbes - Friends Don't Let Friends Become Chinese Billionaires

https://www.forbes.com/sites/raykwong/2011/07/25/friends-dont-let-friends-become-chinese-billionaires/?sh=44597352ddae

Brookings - Fentanyl and geopolitics: Controlling opioid supply from China

https://www.brookings.edu/research/fentanyl-and-geopolitics-controlling-opioid-supply-from-china/

NPR - 'We Are Shipping To The U.S.': Inside China's Online Synthetic Drug Networks

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/916890880/we-are-shipping-to-the-u-s-china-s-fentanyl-sellers-find-new-routes-to-drug-user

Coinbase - Announcing Coinbase Fact Check: Decentralizing truth in the age of misinformation

https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coinbase-fact-check-decentralizing-truth-in-the-age-of-misinformation-757d2392d61a

Show Notes:

0:00 Friedberg recaps Sacks' birthday party

6:47 "Wuhan Lab Leak" theory, did COVID come from a lab? Plusn China's fentanyl production

26:09 India's new "traceability" law

33:11 Coinbase & Brian Armstrong debut fact checking blog

41:17 Friedberg's science corner: groundbreaking gene therapies

45:06 Amazon's MGM acquisition, media consolidation

1:04:45 Biden's $6T infrastructure, Democrat's feeling the inflation pressure & responding

E33: Apple's hypocrisy, America's math failure, crypto's regulatory correction, Clubhouse's future, UFOs & more May 22, 2021

Show notes

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks

https://twitter.com/friedberg

Follow the pod:

https://twitter.com/theallinpod

https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Referenced in the show:

The Verge - Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into 'misogynistic' new hire

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432909/apple-petition-hiring-antonio-garcia-martinez-chaos-monkeys-facebook

The Verge - Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians in internal letter

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/20/22446059/apple-employees-palestinians-support-internal-letter-tim-cook

Vox - Full transcript: 'Chaos Monkeys' author Antonio García-Martinez on Recode Decode

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/9/12415696/antonio-garcia-martinez-chaos-monkeys-recode-decode-podcast-transcript

Business Insider - Tobi Lutke's Email

https://www.businessinsider.com/shopify-ceo-email-to-managers-we-are-not-a-family-2021-5

TK News by Matt Taibi - On the Hypocrites at Apple Who Fired Antonio Garcia-Martinez

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-hypocrites-at-apple-who-canceled

The Information - Seven Apple Suppliers Accused of Using Forced Labor From Xinjiang

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/seven-apple-suppliers-accused-of-using-forced-labor-from-xinjiang

Persuasion - America Is Flunking Math

https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-america-is-flunking-math-education

Bloomberg - Gap With White House on Infrastructure Is Widening, GOP Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-21/biden-offers-to-cut-infrastructure-proposal-to-1-7-trillion

St. Louis FED - 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE

TED - A prosecutor's vision for a better justice system

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_foss_a_prosecutor_s_vision_for_a_better_justice_system?language=en

Tweets:

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1394328675768705030

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1395056042841559041

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1393462058407010307

https://twitter.com/moskov/status/1395060902253064195

https://twitter.com/moskov/status/1395062765702713358

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1395073652840796160

https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/1394654014596337667

https://twitter.com/ALLIN_STATS

Show Notes:

0:00 Apple's hypocrisy re: AGM firing

25:48 America is failing math

40:10 Inflation fears slowing down, infrastructure bill restructuring, corporate tax loopholes

50:10 Clubhouse's plummeting download numbers, David Sacks gives the besties a scoop

57:46 Crypto correction: regulation, centralized coins, potential black swans

1:13:30 Friedberg's science corner: UFOs

1:19:18 Sacks presses other billionaires on their support Chesa Boudin

#allin #tech #news

E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment, post-COVID boom in jeopardy & more May 13, 2021

Show notes

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks

https://twitter.com/friedberg

Follow the pod:

https://twitter.com/theallinpod

https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Referenced in the show:

NY Times - A Misleading C.D.C. Number

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/briefing/outdoor-covidtransmission-cdc-number.html

medRxiv - COVID-19 Aerosolized Viral Loads, Environment, Ventilation, Masks, Exposure Time, Severity, And Immune Response: A Pragmatic Guide Of Estimates

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.03.20206110v6.full

Business Insider - Silicon Valley VCs are at war with the 'far left radicals' running California

https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-venture-capitalists-at-front-lines-california-recall-2021-5

NY Post - Powerful teachers union influenced CDC on school reopenings, emails show

https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/

MMA - Governor Reeves Announces End to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance

https://mma-web.org/governor-reeves-announces-end-to-pandemic-unemployment-assistance/

Tweets:

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1392154915640729605

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1392223301154447361

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1391591653824204801

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1391257138698375168

https://twitter.com/skepticaliblog/status/1391958173955682309

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1390390598444609538

https://twitter.com/friedberg/status/1392551233618026496

https://twitter.com/bytecoin8

Show Notes:

0:00 Jason goes behind the scenes of Elon's SNL appearance

23:36 CDC failures, misleading information on COVID spreading outdoors

39:10 Reacting to Stanley Druckenmiller's thoughts on current Fed policy, decoupling of capital markets from policy

48:32 America's real-time UBI experiment, Business Insider's piece covering All-In

1:05:23 Friedberg's science corner: synthetic biology IPO/SPACs, stem cell breakthroughs & more

1:19:15 Should the besties start a third party? Is it possible?

E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA Governor, Big Tech earnings & more May 01, 2021

Show notes

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks

https://twitter.com/friedberg

Follow the pod:

https://twitter.com/theallinpod

https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Referenced in the show:

MIT Technology Review - Some vaccinated people are still getting covid. Here's why you shouldn't worry.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/29/1024301/vaccines-covid-breakthrough-infections-immunity-cdc/

David Sacks on Medium - Caitlyn Jenner Is Right: Crime is the #1 Issue in California and Gavin Newsom Bears Ultimate Responsibility

https://davidsacks.medium.com/caitlyn-jenner-is-right-crime-is-the-1-issue-in-california-and-gavin-newsom-bears-ultimate-381b3cee42db

Tweets

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1378856861970038784

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1388125436241223682

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1388135440843251714

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1388129450651492355

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1387582236573175809

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1387598770825830404

Show Notes:

0:00 Bestie intro, Jason's trip recap

2:47 Sacks on hypocrisy and virtue signaling surrounding wearing masks post-vaccination, Biden's address

16:07 Pandemic lessons

30:02 Immigration, Americans self-selecting as hard workers, understanding two different types of immigration

48:04 How Darwinian free trade has negatively impacted the US middle class

1:00:44 Caitlyn Jenner for CA Governor, crime & homelessness

1:07:48 Big Tech earnings

E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, federal budget, India's COVID surge, founder psychology & more Apr 23, 2021

Show notes

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks

https://twitter.com/friedberg

Follow the pod:

https://twitter.com/theallinpod

https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Referenced in the show:

Federal Net Outlays as Percent of GDP

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S

Wayback Machine / WhiteHouse.gov

https://web.archive.org/web/20010118204900/http://www1.whitehouse.gov

Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/india-posts-daily-rise-over-300000-covid-19-cases-record-death-toll-2021-04-22

Show Notes:

0:00 Intro

1:19 Biden's capital gains tax hike

21:33 Addressing the federal budget problems

42:16 Chauvin verdict, media coverage

50:06 Hulu WeWork documentary, Founder psychology

59:46 COVID surge in India

1:11:01 Poor media performance in 2021

E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, portfolio management, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner Apr 17, 2021

Show notes

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

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https://twitter.com/friedberg

https://twitter.com/altcap

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https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Referenced in the show:

Statista - Death rates from coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state

Tweets:

https://twitter.com/bgurley/status/1382737752794353664

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1382874547179950082

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1382466963885199362

https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1382477293797400581

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1383073577386201094

Show Notes:

0:00 Bestie intro & crowning a new SPAC king

3:01 Coinbase's direct listing, comparing vehicles to go public & lockup periods, Sacks on Coinbase vs. NYT

12:06 David Sacks on running for governor

15:21 Brad & the besties react to the crazy Q1 in the markets, a16z's savvy buying moves with Coinbase, issues with short-term behavioral lock-in

32:37 Top insights from Bezos' letter to shareholders, Amazon employees reject the union in Alabama

50:27 Reacting to Drew Holden's recent thread on media double standards in covering each party

54:28 Federalism's benefits throughout COVID, State-by-state results reveal lockdowns didn't work, vaccine incentives and PR due to J&J decision

1:04:20 Degradation of faith in institutions accelerated by COVID

1:09:26 Republican Senator Josh Hawley calls for big tech antitrust reform, bypassing institutions for progress

E28: Current state of public & private markets, Archegos debacle, US debt issues, wealth tax & more Apr 01, 2021

Show notes

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks

https://twitter.com/friedberg

Follow the pod:

https://twitter.com/theallinpod

https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Referenced in the show:

Axios - Changes to capital gains taxes omitted from Biden's infrastructure plan

https://www.axios.com/biden-infrastructure-plan-capital-gains-taxes-318224d2-84f8-4c48-b5db-bbcec5fdd74f.html

Cal Matters - A wealth tax could sabotage California's recovery

https://calmatters.org/commentary/my-turn/2021/03/a-wealth-tax-could-sabotage-californias-recovery

Healthline - COVID-19 Vaccines May Help Stop Virus Transmission: Here's What We Know

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/covid-19-vaccines-may-help-stop-virus-transmission-heres-what-we-know

Show Notes:

0:00 Besties intro, state of the public & private markets

18:54 Chamath receives inspiring note re: last week's longevity talk

21:17 Archegos debacle, issues with trading on margin

32:26 Biden's infrastructure bill, US government becoming overleveraged

45:45 Potential tax hikes, inefficient deployment of capital, California wealth tax impact

52:59 Trade off between freedom & equality, how free markets spur innovation, generational changes

1:05:14 Is a wealth tax constitutional? Vaccine update

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