Description
Industry veterans, degenerate gamblers & besties Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks & David Friedberg cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.
Episodes
- 2026 / 10 / 23AI Cyber Panic, Ken Griffin's Bubble Warning, The Fall of France?(0:00) Bestie intros! (0:11) Ken Griffin's AI bubble warning (8:19) Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora joins (14:24) AI Cyber panic: PHP exploits and the tumultuous year ahead (44:17) France on the brink:...
- 2026 / 10 / 21Arvind Krishna & Nikesh Arora: Quantum Threat, Open vs Frontier AI, AI Cyber Warfare & SaaS Collapse(0:00) Arvind Krishna & Nikesh Arora talk about Quantum Computing's Threat to Encryption (9:07) Open Weight vs. Frontier AI Models (18:07) AI and Cyber Warfare (21:14) AI Regulation and the Global AI Arms...
- 2026 / 10 / 19Dylan Field: Is AI Replacing Designers?, Design is the New Code & Democratizing Creativity(0:00) Dylan Field joins the show: Figma's origin story and mission (3:16) Adobe's $20B deal blocked: inside the antitrust fight (12:29) Is AI killing SaaS? Frontier Companies vs. Figma, the "SaaS apocalypse"...
- 2026 / 10 / 17CoreWeave Crash, AI Trade Cracks, Anthropic IPO Red Flags, Bill Gates Doomer(0:00) Ben Horowitz fills in for Friedberg! (2:18) CoreWeave's debt selloff: did the AI bubble just pop? (31:14) AI's deflationary impact: decompiled software (45:44) Anthropic's investor day gets mixed...
- 2026 / 10 / 15Elizabeth Holmes' Husband Billy Evans: The Trial, Prison & Nathan Fielder's Documentary(0:00) Billy Evans joins Friedberg (3:38) How they met, Elizabeth the person vs the headlines, indictment (11:02) Life on trial, having a child, where she went wrong in fundraising (19:28) Understanding the...
- 2026 / 10 / 12Martin Shkreli: Big Pharma's Blind Spot, Betting Against Quantum & What Prison Taught Him(0:00) Martin Shkreli joins the Besties! (0:55) Why quantum computing is a one-trick business and why he's betting against it (7:42) The drugs big pharma sells too cheap and his journey from hedge fund trader...
- 2026 / 10 / 10Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots(0:00) Bestie intros! (2:53) Anthropic believes Claude might be conscious: a new religion? Lobbying the Pope, alignment risks, model welfare (38:28) OpenAI's math breakthroughs and community backlash...
- 2026 / 10 / 2Trump's Super Intelligence Summit, AI Safety Accord, GDP Beats, Midterm Predictions(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,...
- 2026 / 9 / 30Jake Paul & The Chainsmokers: Turning Fame into Funds, Jake Enters Politics? & Venture Bubble Signs(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 28Daniel Ek: Life After Spotify, Broken Healthcare Incentives, Catching Disease Early & AI's Potential(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 26Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta's Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Alignment Fails(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 23Luca Ferrari, Bending Spoons CEO: The $40K Origin Story, Buying Product-Market Fit & Why Private Equity Can't Compete(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)...
- 2026 / 9 / 23Steve Hilton & Spencer Pratt: Fixing California, Cheaper Gas, Ballot Fraud & CA Republicans(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 &...
- 2026 / 9 / 22Blake Scholl: Why Plane Speed Stalled, Supersonic Commercial Flight, & Revolutionizing the Engine(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 21Naveen Rao: 4D Computing, AI's Energy Wall & Beating Biology(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 20Adam Foroughi, Applovin CEO: Surviving a 92% Drawdown, Ads as ML 1.0 & the $50B Game Ad Market(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 19Bill Gurley: Searching for Feynman(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: ...
- 2026 / 9 / 18Jared Isaacman: A New Era for NASA and American Space Exploration(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,...
- 2026 / 9 / 18Nick Shirley: Exposing Government Fraud, Suing California & Taking on the Media(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 17Meta's Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, AI Job Boom & Meta's Future(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 17Brad Gerstner: No AI Bubble, Semis Eat the Nasdaq & AI's Take Off Problem(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 15JD Vance on AI, Entitlement Fraud, Iran War, Israel, H-1B Abuse & the Midterms(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,...
- 2026 / 9 / 15Satya Nadella on the AI Doomer Slowdown, Microsoft's Master Plan & Who Wins AI(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 15Elon Musk & Gwynne Shotwell on AI Risks and Peer Review, Starship, Terafab, SpaceX/Tesla Merger(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 14Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence Is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump)(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,...
- 2026 / 9 / 11AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI's Math Breakthrough, Nike's $200B Collapse(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...
- 2026 / 9 / 4GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal(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...
- 2026 / 8 / 29Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine(0:00) Bestie intros: Recapping recent interviews and the state of American science (3:31) China's Robot Olympics, Optimus update, Grok Bot (9:05) Nvidia and Salesforce rip after big earnings: AI Capex Bubble...
- 2026 / 8 / 26Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics(0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show! (03:09) Has American science stalled? Cowboy science, Fauci, and the scientific precariat (21:31) Weinstein's fix: Blow a hole in the Civil Rights Act, kill peer review,...
- 2026 / 8 / 24Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China(0:00) Michael Kratsios joins the show! (01:56) Is this administration anti-science? The Nature poll, DEI grants, and $8B down the drain (8:16) Climate science cuts: RCP 8.5 gets pulled and the "climate...
- 2026 / 8 / 21Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up(00:00) Besties are back! (00:13) Dario's two-part essay: regulatory capture, doomerism, and the data center backlash (10:25) FINRA for AI vs. MPAA for AI: SROs, thinking tokens, and the "DMV for AI" (30:12)...
- 2026 / 8 / 18Flock CEO Garrett Langley on Controversy, "Surveillance State" Claims, and Privacy vs Safety(0:00) The most controversial company in privacy right now, Flock CEO joins the show! (7:23) License plate data retention: 7 days solves 90% of crimes (13:00) Camera vandalism, felony charges, and privacy...
- 2026 / 8 / 14Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback(0:00) Gavin Baker joins the show! (2:36) Anthropic IPO report: $2T valuation, $100B+ run rate, October listing (27:32) Zuck's AI manifesto: What it means for Meta and frontier AI (56:41) All-In Summit...
- 2026 / 8 / 13Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats(0:00) Jason and Friedberg welcome Rahm Emanuel (1:16) Lessons from working with Clinton and Obama (7:45) China: How to approach conflict, new economic bloc, isolation, and Taiwan (28:49) Europe: Reasons for...
- 2026 / 8 / 8Google's AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable's 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI(0:00) Bestie intros! Brad Gerstner fills in for Chamath (2:16) Major shakeups at Google: AI brain drain or better strategy? (20:39) SpaceX's big quarter: Terafab, AI Capex, $1T revenue projection? (45:44)...
- 2026 / 8 / 5Saronic Founders: Autonomous Warships, China's 230X Advantage & Swarms of Robot Ships(0:00) Saronic founders join the show! (4:56) The Navy's first autonomous rescue in the Strait of Hormuz, and how China out builds America 230-to-1 (13:04) $3B destroyers vs. Marauder (21:25) Killing...
- 2026 / 7 / 31Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores(0:00) Bestie intros (1:19) Chip stocks crash, Leopold Aschenbrenner's $20B fund gets margin called (20:20) China's advantage and green shoots for the US economy (34:12) Frontier Labs say "SLOW DOWN AI"...
- 2026 / 7 / 28The $1/Hour Worker: Four Robotics CEOs on Humanoids at Home, China's Threat, and the End of Dangerous Jobs(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...
- 2026 / 7 / 24The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?(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...
- 2026 / 7 / 20Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?(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 &...
- 2026 / 7 / 18Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters(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...
- 2026 / 7 / 15Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding(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)...
- 2026 / 7 / 13The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour(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...
- 2026 / 7 / 11More Trillion Dollar IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts(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...
- 2026 / 7 / 10Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese's AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs(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...
- 2026 / 7 / 3AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom's CA Budget Lie(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...
- 2026 / 6 / 29Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading & AOC Might Win It All in 2028(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...
- 2026 / 6 / 26Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter(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...
- 2026 / 6 / 23GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's $56B Plan to Take Over eBay(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...
- 2026 / 6 / 19World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal(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...