Industry veterans, degenerate gamblers & besties Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks & David Friedberg cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.
374 episodes transcribed(0:00) Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joins the show! (1:14) Trump-Xi summit, doing business in China as a US company, impact on Americans and the midter...
(0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Charles & Chase Koch (1:04) Koch Industries Overview: Scale, Business Lines & History (2:21) Building the Business: Ea...
(0:00) Spencer Pratt vs. the Machine (3:01) Inside the Palisades Fire: Drained Reservoirs, No Sirens & Watching His House Burn on His Phone (14:03) Wh...
(0:00) Bestie intros! Thoughts on the LA mayor election (4:38) SpaceX-Anthropic deal, Elon Web Services, SpaceX IPO valuation, Anthropic's insane grow...
(0:00) Bestie intros (3:05) OpenAI misses targets, Codex gains on Claude (20:02) AI cybersecurity: a market that's about to explode (31:03) Elon vs Sa...
(0:00) Intro: Steve Hilton is a Republican Brit Running for CA Governor (8:34) Zero Tax Under $100K and a 7.5% Flat Rate: Is It Fiscally Possible? (27...
(0:00) Bestie intros! (4:55) SpaceX-Cursor deal, compute as leverage (18:33) SaaS bloodbath, debt bomb incoming, buy the dip? (46:20) New Apple CEO: J...
(0:00) Bestie intros: Travis Kalanick joins the show! (0:42) Mamdani taxes the rich: new pied-à-terre tax coming to NYC (11:23) OpenAI's identity cris...
(0:00) Bestie intros: Brad Gerstner joins the show! (4:22) Anthropic blocks Mythos release for security concerns: serious or marketing stunt? (24:07)...
(0:00) Jason intros PA Governor Josh Shapiro (1:40) Shapiro's blueprint for PA: pro-growth, pro-freedom, less red tape, prosecuting fraud (13:05) Weal...
(0:00) Friedberg Intros Palantir's Shyam Sankar and Anduril's Trae Stephens (0:56) Palantir Origins: CIA Analyst Joins 20-Person Startup (2:54) War, D...
(0:00) Bestie intros! (0:12) SpaceX IPO, the economic opportunity of space: a new industrial frontier (21:00) 2026 IPO explosion, OpenAI down round? (...
(0:00) Bestie intros!: Friedberg for Governor of California? (2:25) Anthropic's generational run (15:45) OpenAI: getting focused or panic mode? (36:56...
(0:00) David Friedberg intros Bryan Johnson (0:54) Why Bryan Johnson did 5-MeO-DMT (12:56) What brain scans actually show (18:36) Psychosis, bad trips...
(0:00) Intro live from Nvidia GTC (0:37) CoreWeave CEO, Michael Intrator (32:58) Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas (1:07:11) Mistral CEO, Arthur Mensch...
(0:00) Matt Mahan: Why He's Running for Governor (1:51) How California Went From Bad to Worse (12:05) Public Sector Unions & Lobbying in Sacramento (1...
(0:00) Jensen Huang joins the show! (1:00) Acquiring Groq and the inference explosion (9:27) Decision making at the world's most valuable company (11:...
(0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Senator John Fetterman; SAVE Act thoughts (1:08) The broken Democratic Party: TDS, what he stands for, why the party c...
(0:00) Travis Kalanick: Officially exiting stealth mode, what he's been working on (5:52) How to automate the physical world, markets to go after (11:...
(0:00) The Besties welcome Brad Gerstner! (3:48) Economic fallout of the Iran War, escalation scenarios, impact on midterms (19:18) Off ramp strategie...
