January 18 2024 Marc Pincus joins the show! Renting from Friedberg Presidio Trust is/manages very expensive real estate Zynga, Farmville, Tribe Invested in Friendster, Napster, Facebook, Twitter Owns original 6 degrees patents Owns half and MSFT owns the other half Red pilling for Trump Lunch with Biden, wrote big checks (Dec 2023) Pirate Wires NYT writers asked Ukrainian soldiers to remove swastikas from their garb for photos Red pill moment - learning about the “fine people” hoax Chief of Staff left him after 9 years - protecting him from himself on Twitter Started tweeting himself Connected to Techno Optimists Came out 2 days before the election publicly for Trump Differences with Reid Seemed fine with Biden at the lunch - though got vibe that his people were managing him Rumor that Biden needed a teleprompter for a speech at a lunch at Vinod’s house LA WildFire update 10 times more costly than any other wildfire in history - $12.5B was the other e...
January 10 2025 Friedberg haircut Cyan Banister joins the show! Investor Was in Founders Fund SpaceX, Anduril, Uber etc Cyan, Chamath, Jason collaborated on investing show for NBC, Harvey Weinstein, etc LA fires 😟 Palisades fires Eaten fires Hurst fires Some of the most exclusive real estate burnt down! Lot of conditions caused it Low rain Crazy winds - ~100MPH Poor management also Can’t make excuses - in 2018 such a crazy fire happened then too - Sepulveda Insurance companies dropped fire coverage recently too So people knew AB 2330, AB 1951, AB 2639 - all rejected by Democrat legislature or Gov Newsom - that would have helped - even SB 103 (power lines underground) CA has accumulated 163million dead trees over the last 70-odd years Don’t even build houses to be burn proof in CA Innovative solutions like cloud seeding could have helped Trump had called this out - he has been proven right Public service orgs should not serve DEI metrics ahead of serving th...