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.

Episodes

December 24, 2025 78 mins

(0:00) Intro!

(2:47) Tony Hinchcliffe roasts the Besties

(15:01) Interview: Kill Tony success, MSG rally, origin story, free speech in Europe

(36:03) The Besties play Kill Tony!

(50:14) The 2025 Bestie Awards: Business, Politics, Tech, and more

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(0:00) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joins the show

(0:55) Recapping 2025 and the state of the economy

(3:13) Tariffs: Leverage, legal challenges, implementation

(15:20) Affordability: inflation, BLS data, interest rates

(23:00) The Fed: biggest mistakes, how we got a 15 year asset bubble, rate cycle, appetite for US debt, Fed Chair candidates

(42:44) Focus on Main Street, taking equity stakes in American companies

(50:40) Tax c...

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(0:00) Bestie intros!

(0:19) Bernie Sanders calls for AI datacenter moratorium, how to solve the negative perception of AI

(17:15) Anti-AI astroturfing: Is the AI sentiment manufactured by special interests?

(32:39) Economy: Unemployment, jobs, inflation, are we primed for a "Golden Age" or not?

(51:44) Dog Corner!

(59:56) China's major AI breakthrough: lithography, impact on the AI race?

(1:19:43) Are the rest of the Besties movin...

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(0:00) Tucker joins the besties!

(4:11) Paramount vs Netflix: bidding war over Warner Bros Discovery

(25:40) What's behind the rise of Nick Fuentes and America First?

(49:13) Understanding the Anti-AI sentiment

(1:21:52) Tucker in 20: Venezuela, Midterm issues, fall of Europe, Qatar, Charlie Kirk investigation, leaving NATO, supporting Israel

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(0:00) Bestie intros

(0:12) OpenAI declares "Code Red" as competitors eat away ChatGPT market share

(28:14) David Sacks vs. New York Times

(51:24) New poverty line, America's slow descent into socialism

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(0:00) Molly Bloom joins the besties live in Las Vegas!

(1:48) Did Jason actually play in "Molly's Game"?

(3:23) Molly's background, starting the game, getting strong-armed by a famous actor, getting stiffed for $250K and losing the game

(16:54) Moving the game to NYC, mob involvement, legal troubles, writing her memoir and making the movie

(31:10) Best celebrity poker players, high-stakes poker archetypes, and more

(34:31) Sales c...

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(0:00) Bestie intros LIVE from The Venetian Las Vegas

(1:13) Epstein Files breakdown

(10:06) Biggest Epstein questions: where did his money come from?

(14:44) Tether's booming business

(23:50) Michael Burry vs. Friedberg, Nvidia's blowout quarter and risks for 2026

(35:25) Google's Gemini 3 and TPU breakthrough

(42:51) Investing your own money vs. LP capital, why Friedberg returned as a CEO

(48:57) Alan Keating joins the show to ta...

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(0:00) Michael Burry's big short against AI

(12:00) Why Palantir is so richly valued vs other tech companies

(20:07) Home affordability crisis: Mortgage innovation, building, top priorities to win mid-terms

(36:18) H-1B debate flares up again after Trump's comments on Fox News

(42:37) Science Corner: Solar storms, coronal mass ejection, risks

(51:14) Rich...

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(0:00) Brad Gerstner joins the show!

(0:49) OpenAI's rough week: Altman's controversial comments on BG2, CFO's "federal backstop" faux pas, clarifications

(18:33) Why Jensen Huang said "China is going to win the AI race."; the need for a federal framework on AI

(30:39) OpenAI's strengths and headwinds: breakout product, trust issues, competition, betting on the AI supercycle

(36:47) Holiday party announcement! allin.com/events for ...

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(0:00) Introducing Ari Emanuel

(1:03) Ari's background in the content business and Hollywood

(4:14) How infinite distribution is changing Hollywood, the future of podcasting, creators owning advertising products

(9:21) AI's impact: anticipating the 3-day workweek

(12:13) Splitting time between TKO and WME, YouTube vs Netflix for creators, modern IP ownership

(18:20) How he got a fighter's reputation, relationship with Michael Ovitz...

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(0:00) Introducing Tareq Amin

(0:39) Saudi Arabia's evolution, Humain's business

(8:11) How Humain works with foundational model providers

(13:14) Saudi's energy and talent advantages, the AI race in the Middle East

(18:11) Working in the era of MBS, Vision 2030

(21:40) How Saudi manages their relationships with the US and China

(23:51) Sacks on the US-Saudi AI alliance

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(0:00) Introducing Paul "Triple H" Levesque

(0:56) The skills needed to be an effective professional wrestler, understanding the characteristics of President Trump and The Rock

(5:41) The rise of the antihero / heel persona, and why modern wrestling is more morally grey

(8:43) WWE vs UFC: Why they are opposites, star building

(11:21) Physicality of the WWE and how they support wrestlers

(14:13) The business of the WWE: using stream...

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(0:00) Disgraziad Corner: The most disgraceful things of the week!

(3:10) Elon on X's new algorithm, why there has been so much Sydney Sweeney content lately

(11:35) Creating Grokipedia: Wikipedia's failures, the future of information on the internet, confirmation bias

(24:52) Three years of X: Looking back on the Twitter acquisition and how it changed free speech on the internet

(42:49) Tesla vote on Elon's compensation, would he ...

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(0:00) Chamath and Jason welcome Pete Buttigieg

(1:31) Why the Democrats lost tech

(6:40) Taxes: Federal wealth tax, wealth disparity, billionaires, the role of government in the free market

(23:17) Government efficiency: Democratic DOGE, breaking ranks on debt, his plan to control spending

(33:01) Culture Wars: The costly role of democratic identity politics, navigating a primary with moderate views, the two Democratic Parties

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(0:00) Friedberg introduces 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado

(4:27) Venezuela before and after Chavez

(15:25) Why María got involved in politics and why she was expelled

(24:33) Why Maduro was chosen and Chavez's successor, China relationship, why people are fleeing

(31:27) Intimidation tactics by the Maduro regime, response to claims of her being a "Western puppet"

(39:30) Presidential run, election fraud, how di...

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(0:00) David Friedberg intros John Martinis, the 2025 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

(0:43) John's history, how he got into physics

(4:54) Explainer on quantum mechanics

(22:57) Quantum tunneling and the 1985 paper that led to this Nobel Prize

(30:37) Understanding qubits, the state of quantum computing, and the impact of AI

(40:56) US vs China in quantum, reactions to winning the Nobel Prize

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(0:00) Bestie intros!

(1:02) CA Billionaire Tax

(17:00) Major NBA gambling scandal

(29:51) Amazon's eventful week: AWS outage and leaked robotic automation plans

(49:55) Tesla earnings, Optimus, Elon's pay package, "corporate terrorists"

(1:03:54) Study shows AI bias

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(0:00) Chamath and Jason welcome Senator Joe Manchin!

(4:20) Blocking Build Back Better, defending the filibuster while dealing with paid protestors and death threats

(19:39) How Biden's staff pushed him to the far left, mental acuity, how he "lost the will to fight," why Obama was an "elusive" president

(28:12) Why socialism is on the rise in America, entitlement culture

(37:06) Importance of term limits in Congress, Joe's favorit...

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(0:00) Introducing Jan Sramek

(0:51) How California Forever is building America's next great city

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(0:00) Bestie intros! Dreamforce and another interesting conference take the Bay Area

(3:35) State of crime in SF, do they need the National Guard?

(20:48) US to impose price floors after China puts export controls on rare earths, can America on-shore a full-stack rare earth industry?

(36:15) State of US-China ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting, how we got here, China's elite mercantilism and strong economic history

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