Industry veterans, degenerate gamblers & besties Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks & David Friedberg cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.
(0:00) Intro: Humanoids, Robots, & AI+
(0:57) ANYbotics' Dr. Péter Fankhauser: Why ANYbotics Bet the Company on Four-Legged Robot Dogs, Not Humanoids
(13:18) Dr. Péter Fankhauser: China's Armed Robot Dogs Are "Stupid and Risky" — Inside the Terminator Debate
(15:01) NEO's Bernt Børnich: Neo Ships in 2026 and Becomes an Open Robot Platform
(22:18) Bernt Børni...
(0:00) Bestie intros!
(0:18) The fight to save open source AI: Kimi K3 panic, Anthropic/OpenAI regulatory capture
(27:38) Anthropic/OpenAI historic growth rates, China's long game
(48:29) Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement and the great IP theft hypocrisy
(1:07:12) Google and Tesla stocks tank on surging AI capex
(1:17:19) Socialism Corner: "Evictions = Violence" and the threat to private property rights
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(0:00) Bubble talk: Comparing today's AI market to the dot-com bubble
(7:50) AI's real-world limits: why enterprise AI is harder than expected
(16:38) Transitioning to an AI-First Workspace
(21:26) Health & AI: self-directed healthcare and biometric data
(24:30) Politics, wealth tax, and AI as a truth-seeking force
(35:12) Knicks & Sports Talk
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(0:00) Bestie intros!
(1:32) New AI regulatory proposal: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis proposes FINRA-type body
(20:01) Stripe, Block, and Advent offer $53B to acquire PayPal
(37:51) Apple sues OpenAI, alleging stolen trade secrets
(42:49) Grok Build data leak, AI data privacy, Tokenmaxxing update, Mira Murati's new model
(59:53) NY bans datacenters, becoming first state to enact a moratorium
(1:22:57) Science Corner: New data on rever...
(0:00) Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joins Jason!
(1:41) What Went Wrong at Intel
(15:19) Why a Taiwan Blockade Would Cripple the US Economy
(25:00) Lovable's Anton Osika: One Million New Apps a Week
(33:38) How Lovable is Bringing Down Builder Costs
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(0:00) ElevenLabs' $600M ARR Ramp, 600 Employees & Life Without PMs
(15:34) Celebrity Voice Deals, Deepfake Impersonation & Racing OpenAI and Anthropic
(31:42) Legora's Hypergrowth, Disrupting Law Firms & the Billable Hour
(42:31) LexisNexis Decline, Legal Data Moats & Legora's Narrow AI Models
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(0:00) Bestie intros: Brad Gerstner fills in for Friedberg!
(2:58) OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs: Why it matters who goes first, what they learned from the SpaceX IPO, the unlimited TAM of intelligence
(27:39) The open source decision, Meta's new model, Zuck's price war, AI duopoly
(54:29) CCP considering putting export controls on Chinese models, is open source ending in China?
(1:03:09) Trump Accounts launch, getting young Americans b...
(0:00) The AI Buildout: Datacenters Bigger Than Cities (Andrew Feldman)
(1:50) Reasoning, Inference, and Breaking Moore's Law
(16:28) Open Source, AI Sovereignty, and the Road to AGI
(40:54) The Innovation Behind Generative Video (Robin Rombach)
(47:31) Martin Scorsese, Robots, and the Future of Hollywood IP
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(0:00) Bestie intros: Happy Fourth of July!
(0:21) Palantir-Nvidia open source deal, Alex Karp's CNBC "Crashout"
(33:52) Update on the AI jobs debate
(50:24) Anthropic's Fable 5 available after export restrictions lifted
(59:06) SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship, striking Trump's EO
(1:21:30) Newsom's "balanced budget" and how California's dire fiscal situation could break apart the Union
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(0:00) Nate Silver joins the pod!
(10:02) California's ballot counting problem: Raman's late-mail surge, ballot harvesting claims, and why the US counts slower than India
(25:18) Democrats' three-way civil war: The left, the abundance libs, and Newsom's "resistance lib" base
(34:48) The winning 2028 playbook: Anti-oligarch messaging, why young men want control, and immigrants flee...
(0:00) Gavin Baker and Travis Kalanick join the show!
(1:05) Mamdani-endorsed socialists sweep congressional primaries in NYC
(22:51) Future of the Democratic Party, the Israel issue, social media bans
(45:12) China's open-source AI catch up, distillation, OpenAI's new chip
(1:01:46) Micron smashes earnings, AI's memory crunch hitting Apple and consumer hardware
(1:10:17) The math behind distributed compute and datacenters in space
...(0:00) David Friedberg intros GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen!
(1:56) Building and selling Chewy for $3.35B, how to compete with Amazon in e-commerce
(11:58) Post-Chewy life, activist investing, the road to GameStop CEO, expanding into collectibles
(26:39) Why he wants to buy eBay for $56B: Massive potential, poor execution (slow growth, rising expenses, seller relationship failure)
(43:58) Ryan's three-part vision for eBay: Cut costs, exp...
(0:00) Bestie intros!
(2:41) The New Oligarchs, America's incoming politburo, and learned helplessness
(14:18) SpaceX's record breaking IPO, $60B Cursor acquisition, and trillionaire reactions
(33:34) Behind the scenes of Anthropic's Fable ban
(1:01:18) Claude psychoanalyzes its creator, Dario Amodei
(1:14:31) Iran War MOU and the market impact
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(0:00) Besties are back!
(0:19) Anthropic gets massive backlash over secret Fable nerfing and privacy concerns
(29:16) The AI regulatory capture trap, pragmatic safety solutions
(37:59) Nationalizing AI: Trump/Sanders, justifications, and AI's "Capitalist Cucks"
(59:22) Liquidity recap: Best moments and takeaways
(1:05:39) Inflation heats up: CPI and PPI see 3+ year highs
(1:12:27) California's loose election laws creating integrit...
(0:00) Chamath explains the Best Ideas format
(2:31) Suvretta Capital Management's Aaron Cowen pitches MGM Resorts
(13:07) Bornite Capital's Dan Dreyfus pitches Talen Energy
(27:19) EcoR1 Capital's Oleg Nodelman pitches Aktis Oncology
(40:20) Multicoin Capital's Kyle Samani pitches GEODNET
(54:50) The Besties recap the pitches and announce winners
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(0:00) PA Senators Fetterman and McCormick join the Besties
(0:33) Bipartisanship in 2026, rejecting extremism
(6:37) All-time unpopularity in the Senate, the filibuster question, tribalism
(13:33) Fixing wealth concentration in the US
(19:51) Graham Platner, why extremism wins primaries, and what it means for the future
(28:12) How AI and energy are playing a part in PA's blue collar boom, dark money funding misinformation
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(0:00) Dan Dreyfus Presents: The Future of Critical Minerals
(0:33) America's "Capital Light Era" is over, rapid supply/demand shocks
(5:40) Impact of China cutting off the US from critical minerals
(8:18) Copper's Rise: The next 18 years need as much as the last 10,000
(12:00) Dollar Debasement: $140T in debt and why hard assets win
(13:50) The Grid is Dying: Blackouts, bottlenecks, and the craft labor crisis
(19:10) How to invest...
(0:00) Bill Maris joins the Besties!
(0:33) Four critical lessons from a career in technology
(5:58) Building Google Ventures with data and machine learning
(9:51) Why small VC funds beat big ones on average
(14:36) OpenAI's valuation problem and the AI price war
(19:09) AI's "Atari Stage": what comes next?
(25:23) VC's broken incentives and the future of deep tech
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(0:00) Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora joins the Besties!
(0:47) Claude Mythos found years of vulnerabilities in Palo Alto's code in weeks
(5:15) Are cyber defenders losing the race against AI attackers?
(6:50) Analytical SaaS is dead, so what survives the AI wave?
(14:06) If models become a utility, where will the money be made?
(20:35) Armchair CEO: Nikesh rates Waymo, Google, and OpenAI
(28:22) Palo Alto's M&A playbook a...
(0:00) Brad Gerstner, Gavin Baker, and Kelly Rodriques join the Besties!
(0:47) Secondary Markets are Booming & Competing with IPOs
(3:10) Why Companies are Staying Private So Long?
(9:22) SPVs, the Forge-Schwab Deal, Democratizing Private Market Access
(13:28) Secondary Markets as Exit Liquidity for VCs
(27:00) The Private Market Bubble?
(32:03) Hottest Secondary Companies Right Now
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