All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

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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August 22, 2025 71 mins

(0:00) Bestie intros

(1:59) What's new with the All-In Summit

(9:02) AI Mania hits the brakes: sign of a bubble or a healthy correction?

(30:49) Meta's AI hiring freeze: are the AI talent wars slowing down?

(39:09) Gavin Newsom is the early favorite to be the 2028 Democratic nominee

(54:03) Russia/Ukraine: Trump's two summits, what endgame to expect?

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(0:00) Sacks and Jason welcome Senator Eric Schmitt

(2:34) Biden v. Missouri, uncovering government censorship as Missouri AG

(6:06) Section 230 and social media, the legacy of Russiagate, big tech censorship in the age of AI

(18:44) Behind the Hunter Biden laptop story and COVID censorship

(30:17) The NGO "Leviathan" and how censorship requests were laundered, Hamilton 68

(36:38) Russiagate and the Obama intel report on the 2016 E...

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(0:00) Bestie intros!

(4:45) AI Psychosis: what it looks like and why it's happening

(20:13) Why the social fabric in America is breaking down

(35:55) Fixing the incentives that created the student debt crisis

(48:52) Trump takes federal control of DC police

(1:05:39) Venture Capital: is it broken and what it will look like in the future?

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(0:00) Bestie intros! Gavin Baker, Ben Shapiro, and Phil Deutch join the show

(7:32) GPT-5 underwhelms, benchmark saturation, OpenAI's product excellence

(18:14) AI's TAM, ROIC, and energy implications

(27:27) China's major advantage and how the US can counter it

(43:46) Political parties picking winners, energy subsidy reversal, how the bureaucratic branch was created and how to fix it

(52:38) Socialism, OBBB impact on energy, doe...

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(0:00) Bestie intros!

(1:44) Recapping "Winning the AI Race" in DC: Trump's speech, best moments, key takeaways

(16:39) AI Executive Orders, unbiased AI, spiciest moments

(34:32) Copyright, fair use, and patents in the Age of AI

(56:37) Sam Altman highlights AI chatbot privacy issues

(1:02:48) Hot GDP print, Fed refuses to cut, major US-EU trade deal

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(0:00) President Trump on the AI Agenda

(54:14) Executive Order signing

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(0:00) Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary

(17:44) Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior and Chris Wright, Energy Secretary

(35:11) Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary

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(0:00) James Litinsky, MP Materials

(13:32) Lisa Su, AMD

(29:45) Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe

(43:26) Jensen Huang, Nvidia

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(0:00) The Besties welcome JD Vance

(1:24) Immigration

(6:34) AI policy

(9:27) Relationship with China: Technology competition, striking a balance, trade

(12:42) Diplomatic relations when AI is at-scale, operating in a multipolar world

(16:41) AI’s impact on jobs

(22:02) Should America facilitate “National Champions” in strategic industries?

(24:09) Working at the White House with Sacks

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(0:00) The besties introduce the day with Jacob Helberg

(9:08) Michael Kratsios, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy

(18:24) Chris Power, Hadrian

(35:15) Jake Loosararian, Gecko Robotics

(44:37) Shyam Sankar, Palantir

(1:00:33) Paul Buchheit, Y Combinator

(1:13:35) Kelly Loeffler, Administrator of the Small Business Administration

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(0:00) The Besties welcome Gavin Baker!

(1:51) Markets: Pricing in tariffs, Trump vs. Powell, solving the debt crisis

(19:24) The $10 trillion AGI prize, what artificial general intelligence and superintelligence looks like in the economy

(38:33) Sacks and Bo Hines join to discuss the GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act passing the House this week, and what it means for crypto in the US

(52:42) AI Infrastructure: $90B in new investments...

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(0:00) The Besties welcome Travis Kalanick and Keith Rabois!

(3:02) Travis on Pony.ai / Uber rumors and the state of Cloud Kitchens

(18:51) xAI launches Grok 4, learning "The Bitter Lesson" in AI

(40:36) How Grok can catch ChatGPT in usage, OpenAI's product excellence

(46:27) Perplexity and OpenAI building AI-native browsers and taking on Chrome

(58:01) Elon's "America Party": is now the right time for a third party, and could he m...

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(0:00) Bestie intros

(2:58) Big Beautiful Bill: Senate revision, AI regulation moratorium killed

(14:10) Clean energy subsidies phased out: What this means for energy production in the US

(25:12) Elon/Trump; US fiscal picture post-BBB

(43:26) US dollar down over 10% in 2025

(53:51) Harvard's money problems: bleeding $1B/year in fight against Trump, potential investigation over bond offerings

(1:09:13) Figma IPO, Grammarly acquires ...

(0:00) Bestie intros: The Core Four is back!

(1:38) Launching All-In Tequila!

(7:01) 12 Day War ends in US-led ceasefire: what it means for the future of the region

(29:48) How markets digested the last few weeks in the Middle East, crucial role of energy independence

(39:58) Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani upsets Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Primary for NYC Mayor

(1:06:02) Science Corner: Stem cell-driven aging reversal out ...

(0:00) The Besties welcome Thomas Laffont!

(3:26) State of LA, Hollywood's decline, positivity around GDP growth and AI productivity

(10:19) Zuck on tilt over AI: $100M offers, Scale AI deal, hiring spree

(23:58) Mag 7 AI Showdown: Ranking the most likely AI winners, biggest stock divergences, and more

(42:41) Why Apple is fumbling AI and how they can fix it?

(57:02) IPOs and M&A heating up in 2025

(1:16:18) State of liquidity: SPA...

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June 19, 2025 45 mins

(0:00) The Besties welcome Tony Robbins!

(0:23) Tony's background and how it led to his career

(8:19) Why progress correlates to happiness, state of the younger generation, biochemistry studies

(21:53) SSRIs, psychedelics, importance of personal moonshots

(31:49) Maintaining focus while managing multiple businesses

(36:37) Thoughts on longevity

(42:44) Partner shoutouts: Thanks to OKX, Circle, Polymarket, Solana, BVNK, and Google C...

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**NOTE: This episode was recorded on Thursday, before the events in the Middle East. All-In will be back to cover this situation next week.

(0:00) The Besties welcome Tucker Carlson!

(4:25) ICE raids, LA riots, immigration debate

(46:08) Strong macro data: inflation, tariff revenue, GDP, jobs

(1:14:00) Big, Beautiful Bill update: State of the bill, Senate math, how Trump should handle dissent in Congress

(1:29:15) War with Iran?

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(0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Jared Isaacman

(1:10) Jared's background: billion-dollar founder, pilot, commercial astronaut

(7:15) Relationship with Elon Musk, road to becoming a commercial astronaut

(16:37) Becoming Trump's nominee to lead NASA, the major issues at NASA and his plan to fix things

(31:52) Breaking down NASA's proposed budget cuts, the space race against China, private vs public space industry

(48:31) The truth be...

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(0:00) The Besties welcome Mayor Francis Suarez!

(0:23) How Miami significantly decreased homelessness and homicides

(5:17) Formula for turning Miami into America's happiest and healthiest city

(10:32) Addressing overregulation at the local level

(17:05) Ambitions for his post-Mayor career

(21:39) Partner shoutouts: Thanks to OKX, Circle, Polymarket, Solana, BVNK, and Google Cloud!

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(0:00) Bestie intros!

(1:25) The AI Doomer Ecosystem: goals, astroturfing, Biden connections, effective altruist rebrand, global AI regulation

(25:17) Doom vs Boom in AI: Job Destruction or Abundance?

(52:44) Big, Beautiful Bill cleanup and upside: DOGE angle, CBO issues

(1:17:14) US Steel/Nippon Steel deal: national champions and golden votes

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