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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...

  January 3 2025 Gavin Baker joins Predictions Show Super predictions go on PolyMarket All In section on PolyMarket - ex US only Skiing fun Biggest Winner Politics Chamath Jason Friedberg Gavin Biggest Winner Politics Fiscal conservatives Gen X (Elon, Rubio, etc) and Elder millenials (Vance, Vivek, Tulsi) Young candidates (avg Trump candidates’ age is 45 or so - Biden had like 60+ - so by end of 2025 younger political names will rise) Trump and centrism Biggest Political Loser Progressivism (Pierre > Trudeau, LePen > Macron, Farage > Starmer, AfD wins, etc - repudiation of class based identity politics) - Said Koch family last year and claims he got it right Racist vocal minority on both sides Pro war neocons (said Ukraine last year) Putin (European will re-arm itself so US will redeploy to Japan and South Korea so Xi Jinping will decouple from Putin) Biggest Business Winner Dollar denominated stable coins ( https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/...

All In Holiday Spectacular Dec 7 2024 Backstage and pre show prep Intro Santacanis Bestie Awards Chamath Jason Friedberg Sacks Biggest Business Winner Free speech NVidia SpaceX, Starlink, Starship Elon Biggest Business Loser Intel Apple (vision pro fell flat, new iPhone16 not good) Boeing (airline issues, starliner) Legacy Media Biggest Business Surprise GLP-1s (almost like a wonder drug) Google Long tail crypto comeback Palantir (stock up 5x, market cap passed lockheed martin) Biggest Political Winner David Sacks (seems to be a part of a great government team) Paypal Mafia (Thiel, Sacks, etc) Independent Media (changing the narrative) Trump (won White House, Senate, House, Popular Vote, overcame 2 assassination attempts) - grateful to Chamath for helping him increase Trump fund raise from $5M to $12M-$13M Biggest Political Loser Barack Obama (the image is shattered) Biden and Democratic machine (cover up of the cognitive decline) Legacy...