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Industry veterans Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg cover economics, technology, politics, society, and poker.

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All-InEN · 40 min

Arvind Krishna & Nikesh Arora: Quantum Threat, Open vs Frontier AI, AI Cyber Warfare & SaaS Collapse

Arvind KrishnaNikesh Arora

Krishna's 2028, 2029 or 2033 quantum timeline makes cryptographic migration a current spending decision: stolen encrypted data could be decrypted later.He expects open-weight models to capture 75%–90% of tokens, with optimized owned-GPU costs of $1–$2 per million versus $20–$50 externally.Enterprises may consolidate 500–5,000 software vendors into 5–10 platforms, but reliable transaction systems will be harder to replace.

All-InEN · 41 min

Dylan Field: Is AI Replacing Designers?, Design is the New Code & Democratizing Creativity

Dylan Field

As app supply grows exponentially while people use the same number of apps, Field sees cheaper code shifting differentiation toward design and branding.Figma is cited at 48% year-over-year growth and accelerating, while Field says Claude Design has not affected the business.Field argues model progress is not product progress: AI lowers barriers, but people raise the creative ceiling.

All-InEN · 94 min

CoreWeave Crash, AI Trade Cracks, Anthropic IPO Red Flags, Bill Gates Doomer

Ben Horowitz

CoreWeave’s 953-basis-point CDS implies 16% annual default risk; fixed-price contracts and $35 billion more to raise leave Chamath’s team estimating a $5 billion break-even gap.Sacks sees demand holding, but financing costs remain a risk; Chamath urges Anthropic to raise at least $200 billion for compute, with SemiAnalysis estimating it and OpenAI will take 60% of next year’s global additions.

All-InEN · 53 min

Jake Paul & The Chainsmokers: Turning Fame into Funds, Jake Enters Politics? & Venture Bubble Signs

Chamath PalihapitiyaJason CalacanisDavid SacksDavid FriedbergJake PaulDrew TaggartAlex Pall

Jake Paul is turning owned attention into distribution and talent infrastructure, citing 138 million Netflix viewers for the Mike Tyson event and 400 MVP fighters.His $100 million Anti Fund and The Chainsmokers’ fund target venture economics, but later tranches priced at two or three times earlier valuations without operating improvement leave realized DPI—not TVPI—as the test of Chamath’s bubble warning.

All-InEN · 51 min

Daniel Ek: Life After Spotify, Broken Healthcare Incentives, Catching Disease Early & AI's Potential

Daniel Ek

Spotify passed 700 million active users and 300 million premium subscribers; Daniel Ek became executive chairman January 1 and returned to building.Neko's $499 unit-economic-positive visit combines 53 blood markers, 6,000 images and clinician review in roughly an hour.Over 100,000 scans found serious, previously undiagnosed conditions in roughly 1% of members; population outcomes and budget effects remain unresolved.

All-InEN · 26 min

Luca Ferrari, Bending Spoons CEO: The $40K Start, Buying Product-Market Fit & Beating Private Equity

Luca Ferrari

Bending Spoons converts acquired product-market fit into a repeatable model, using 50+ proprietary tools and an approximately 800-person shared talent base to replace technology foundations.Historically consistent unlevered returns above 25% and debt costing about 9%, fully hedged and maturing in 2031, support the model, while limited customer synergies, competition and replication risk remain watchpoints.

All-InEN · 18 min

Blake Scholl: Why Plane Speed Stalled, Supersonic Commercial Flight, & Revolutionizing the Engine

Blake SchollJason Calacanis

Boom’s 42 MW, water-free, behind-the-meter data-center system repurposes its Mach 1.7 engine core, with the first engine due next month, while vertical integration targets multiple gigawatts annually and more than 10 GW added to the grid over five years.Overture targets a $3,500 round-trip break-even fare and a four-year goal, but the actual service date remains uncertain as regulatory momentum accelerates.

All-InEN · 24 min

Adam Foroughi, Applovin CEO: Surviving a 92% Drawdown, Ads as ML 1.0 & the $50B Game Ad Market

Adam Foroughi

AppLovin is extending a roughly $50B mobile-gaming ad market, with platform ad spend growing from $11B to about $20B, into e-commerce discovery.Its April 2023 deep-learning model improved advertiser performance and enabled scaling, while roughly $6B in buybacks retired 20–25% of shares after a 92% drawdown.Discovery may expand activity beyond Google Search, but stated 84% EBITDA margins depend on differentiated data, complexity and scale.

All-InEN · 33 min

Nick Shirley: Exposing Government Fraud, Suing California & Taking on the Media

Nick ShirleyChamath PalihapitiyaJason CalacanisDavid SacksDavid Friedberg

California’s high-speed rail has consumed $15 billion over 18 years without track, while estimates rose from $33B to $236B.One-third of spending went to change orders and delays, including a February settlement exceeding half a billion dollars; Sacramento still approved $1B annually for 20 years.AB 2624 is a First Amendment lawsuit and potential distribution constraint as Shirley expands welfare investigations through X.

All-InEN · 44 min

Meta's Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, AI Job Boom & Meta’s Future

Dina Powell McCormick

Meta’s multibillion-dollar Richland Parish project lifted sales-tax growth from 5–10% to a 260% peak and certified employees’ checks from $10,000 to $50,000.Louisiana shifts generation, grid resilience, upgrades and storm costs to Meta; the Academy produced 250 graduates and 90% retention from 40,000 applicants, while Google and BlackRock support scaling amid backlash and Cotton and Warner’s adversary theory.