Jason Calacanis
Venture capitalist, angel investor, and co-host of the All In podcast.
“Jake Paul was awesome. I sat him next to Sacks for dinner. He's a great investor, by the way, fantastic. His portfolio is awesome.”
Source→“There is one break the glass way... You must get somebody at the absolute top of the ticket elected. That person is Steve Hilton. And if that happens, there is one thing that Steve Hilton can do to start to completely change the way that this state is run, which is instantly on day one declare a state of emergency.”
Source→“AI is completely different. There is a real cost for every marginal user. Everyone you stand up is taxing a GPU... It is not dissimilar to having the first set of transportation companies that run on the interstate highway.”
Source→“Meta really fumbled this with Llama. If they had landed a really good working open source model... What a fumble. Take the margin out for the rest of us.”
Source→“Participants: Bill Maris, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis, Sacks”
Source→“What is Elon helping put into space as the price goes down? And so we did direct on the cap table and SPV for VAST, which is building space stations. And we think they're going to win.”
Source→“He puts her at four. And so immediately she's like, what? Who are the three people that beat me?... He goes, I intentionally would place people at certain parts of the list to maximize the controversy.”
Source→“Participants: Bill Ackman, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis”
Source→“I thought she should be CEO of OpenAI. That's what I thought. I think Sam should be chair.”
Source→“"There's a trial lawyer named Donnie King... He and his colleagues have started to warn that we could start seeing shareholder lawsuits against companies that engage in this type of AI washing because he thinks it's a type of puffery." - Jason Calacanis”
Source→“These very small models, small language models, and then verticalized ones are the future. We've got a company, the abacus, that's doing it for corporations, crushing it.”
Source→“"The Qualcomm CEO, Cristiano, is also there." — Jason Calacanis [00:19:51]”
Source→“"Brian Sykes, the CEO of Cargill. Cargill is the world's largest private company based in Minneapolis. And he is going to come away selling a lot of soybeans." — Jason Calacanis”
Source→“"Kelly Ortberg selling planes. He's already sold 200. He wants to sell 500 planes." — Jason Calacanis”
Source→“The framing of the Trump-Xi summit shifted meaningfully in this discussion — away from military posturing and toward structured economic entanglement as the primary peace mechanism.”
Source→“Google Cloud, which includes the Google Suite, that grew 63% year on year. Let that number sink in. 63% on $20 billion in revenue. That's in a quarter.”
Source→“California still has the worst air quality in the country, largely because of the addiction to cars and traffic.”
Source→“Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis, Steve Hilton”
Source→“Participants: Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis, Steve Hilton”
Source→“He shamed the mainstream media who's forgotten about investigative journalism, who forgot the ability to knock on a door and just ask a basic question.”
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