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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October 2, 2026 • 82 mins

(0:00) Bestie intros!

(2:01) Trump's Super Intelligence Summit: Behind the scenes and how the accord was created and signed

(17:57) Cybersecurity arms race, data center national security, America.gov, coordinated doomer messaging

(45:22) Recent economic data: GDP, jobs, diesel, inflation, rates, manufacturing, poverty, and more

(1:00:24) Midterm predictions, 2028 look ahead

(1:09:28) Media coverage of attempted terrorist hijacking

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(0:00) Jake Paul joins the Chamath!

(6:41) Turning an audience into businesses, the boxing playbook & coming for the UFC

(11:54) Attention as capital, investing without the celebrity label & why politics is next

(20:46) Drew Taggart & Alex Pall join the Besties!

(30:35) From artists to investors: picking deals, playing the sixth man & what fame buys

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(0:00) Daniel Ek joins the Besties!

(1:14) Starting Spotify: Beating piracy and betting his own money on the record labels

(6:10) Neko Health: The Spotify playbook for healthcare, the $499 body scan, and why US healthcare waits until you're sick

(36:04) AI: Tech's failure to sell the upside, open vs. closed models, and regulating compute

(44:24) Back to Spotify: Podca...

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(0:00) Bestie Intros: Favorite All-In Summit moments

(3:54) Reacting to AI chaos: Liability, competition, and rebranding frontier "labs"

(20:03) Open Source performance and cost: What this means for frontier companies

(29:22) Anthropic and OpenAI postpone IPOs: liquidity risk and open source pressure

(53:11) Political reactions to "Pacing the Frontier": Bernie's AI ban, Trump, Bessent, Obama

(1:07:58) Meta launches Muse, AI "alignm...

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(0:00) Luca Ferrari joins the Besties!

(1:56) Crashing an AI startup, the $40,000 restart & buying product market fit

(4:59) The in-house tech stack, shrinking the teams & the 10 out of 10 standard

(9:55) Debt as an accelerant, what happens if rates rise & who else is bidding

(14:58) Inside the deal desk: what gets acquired, why they don't build & the ...

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(0:00) Steve Hilton joins the Besties!

(3:53) How one-party rule broke the state, regulatory bloat & who really writes the laws

(12:09) The path to victory: the persuadable voter, the cost-of-living pitch & the case against Becerra

(21:46) Spencer Pratt joins: the message that cut through & the LA race that flipped

(26:58) The city up close: the parks, sma...

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(0:00) Welcome Blake Scholl!

(5:11) Solving the sonic boom & legalizing supersonic flight

(7:59)  The pivot to powering data centers

(10:38) Jason joins: data center demand, private jets & what winning looks like

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(0:00) Welcome Naveen Rao

(4:45) Is energy really the problem? The cost of a token, power contracts & the gap to close

(10:24) Cutting out the middleman: abstractions, dynamical systems & a new kind of machine

(19:46) Chamath joins: the path to product, porting existing models & building the team

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(0:00) Adam Foroughi joins the Besties!

(3:07) Discovery vs search & is your phone listening?

(10:04) IPO tumble & becoming your own best investor

(16:00) Privacy rules, Apple's crackdown & how agents change people's shopping

(20:00) How a lean team beats the giants, margin moats & building in China

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September 18, 2026 • 38 mins

(0:00) Bill Gurley takes the stage at the All-In Summit

(1:29) Bill's Presentation: Searching for Feynman

Links to additional resources mentioned in talk and used in research:
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(0:00) NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman lays out the state and future of NASA

(17:59) Moon base, creating new space industries, NASA's next chapter

(23:29) How to make Mars realistic

(25:30) Recruiting, moonshots, the "Nuclear NASA," new vehicles and the importance of humans in space

(32:43) Allocating capital toward scientific discovery and deep space research

(35:46) Space Race 2.0: China and Russia

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(0:00) Nick Shirley debuts his new video: "Inside California's High Speed Rail to Nowhere"

(11:42) Nick joins The Besties to discuss California's "Stop Nick Shirley Act" and recent fraud arrests

(17:03) How he got into investigative journalism and finding fraud

(23:32) Selective journalism and why Nick is a major threat to mainstream outlets

(27:34) What's next for Nick: Investigating welfare fraud, building his platform

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(0:00) Dina Powell McCormick joins The Besties!

(1:52) Impact of Meta's data center in Richland Parish, LA: $50K teacher checks, revitalizing a small town community

(11:52) How Meta is alleviating data center concerns: pollution, electricity, water, noise, aesthetics; Misinformation campaigns

(19:57) America's Workforce Academy, the job growth in re-industrializing America

(26:58) Meta's recent social media settlement, new rules fo...

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(0:00) Welcome Brad Gerstner!

(1:01) Trump Accounts, Every Child a Capitalist & The CAC Scan

(5:07) Can AI revenue pay for the CapEx?

(8:53) The Build Out Issue: Gigawatts, TAM, Token Growth, and Margin Expansion

(12:30) The risks: AI regulation, the nuclear precedent, power limits, and rising rates

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(0:00) VP JD Vance joins The Besties!

(1:40) Assessing the Trump Admin so far: Border control, re-industrialization, inflation, Iran, government debt, anti-fraud

(9:28) AI approach: Dealing with Doomerism, "Frankenstein," and AI negativity

(16:23) H-1B abuse and the massive $1T+ of fraud in federal spending

(21:48) Relationship with Israel, rational foreign policy

(25:19) JD Vance's midterms message

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(0:00) Satya Nadella joins The Besties!

(0:55) Dario's blog, "pacing the frontier," common sense AI safety

(6:28) The failure of AI CEO messaging, monitoring agents, what will a slowdown mean for new AI products?

(14:22) Economic incentives for frontier lab doomerism, where the AI profits are

(22:45) Microsoft's master plan for AI, how they are allocating capital

(31:00) China's slow down, changing AI perception, data center b...

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(0:00) SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell joins The Besties!

(1:45) Gwynne's SpaceX story, selling rockets, and working for Elon

(6:45) Running modern day SpaceX: AI, Starlink, Rockets, and X

(13:43) Direct to cell with Starlink, retiring rockets, competition

(18:34) Data centers in space

(22:00) Management at SpaceX

(27:37) Elon Musk joins: AI's real risk, model peer review, what he meant by "Dario is right"

(36:53) Elon and Gwynne on their...

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(0:00) Jensen Huang joins The Besties!

(1:39) Thoughts on Dario's blog, Frontier Labs calling to slow down AI, and Doomer psychology

(9:58) Sensible AI regulation and RSI

(16:05) Hugging Face acquisition, future of Open Source, and the race with China

(22:58) President Trump calls in live to discuss the Doomer Hoax

(31:29) The AI boom and Nvidia's capital allocation strategy

(40:21) Nvidia's Open Source model ambitions, thoughts on...

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(0:00) Bestie intros!

(0:35) AI Doomsday: Valid concern or Doomer psyop?

(33:40) Steelmanning AI Doomsday scenarios and the impact on Anthropic's IPO

(58:45) OpenAI says it cracked a 200 year old math problem, but did it front-run users with their own data?

(1:19:55) Nike removed from S&P 100 after stock tanks 80%: What went wrong?

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(0:00) Bestie intros: Happy 50th Chamath!

(1:17) OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra: Have they reached AGI?

(19:01) All-In Summit: Scholarships available!

(19:56) Dwarkesh's Hugging Face hack article sparks a Bernie Sanders AI ban

(37:03) EAs, AI-brained influencers, and the conflicts of interest

(59:26) Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools K-8 

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