Industry veterans, degenerate gamblers & besties Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks & David Friedberg cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
103 hours 41 mins; October 27, 2023
E150: Israel/Gaza escalating or not? EU censorship regime, Penn donors revolt, GLP-1 hype cycle
88 hours 2 mins; October 20, 2023
E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps
65 hours 48 mins; October 13, 2023
E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
78 hours 46 mins; October 06, 2023
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
88 hours 6 mins; September 29, 2023
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
102 hours 44 mins; September 22, 2023
E145: Presidential Candidate Chris Christie in conversation with the Besties
128 hours 15 mins; September 08, 2023
E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more
66 hours 51 mins; September 01, 2023
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
112 hours 36 mins; August 25, 2023
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
90 hours 21 mins; August 18, 2023
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
96 hours 0 mins; August 11, 2023
E140: LK-99, Sclerotic establishments, Fitch downgrades US debt, Trump indicted... again
89 hours 56 mins; August 04, 2023
E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more
77 hours 47 mins; July 27, 2023
E138: Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in conversation with the Besties
130 hours 17 mins; July 21, 2023
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
88 hours 7 mins; July 14, 2023
E136 Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration debate, balloon farce, heart health
98 hours 21 mins; July 09, 2023
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
96 hours 58 mins; June 30, 2023
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
93 hours 32 mins; June 23, 2023
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
118 hours 7 mins; June 16, 2023
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
102 hours 51 mins; June 10, 2023
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
95 hours 59 mins; June 02, 2023
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
97 hours 43 mins; May 26, 2023
E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
88 hours 5 mins; May 19, 2023
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck's warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
79 hours 20 mins; May 12, 2023
E127: Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in conversation with the Besties
121 hours 47 mins; May 05, 2023
E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell's recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
76 hours 11 mins; April 28, 2023
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
99 hours 12 mins; April 21, 2023
E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
93 hours 7 mins; April 14, 2023
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
87 hours 14 mins; April 07, 2023
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
84 hours 29 mins; March 31, 2023
E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more
94 hours 29 mins; March 24, 2023
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
90 hours 5 mins; March 17, 2023
E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
89 hours 27 mins; March 11, 2023
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
116 hours 25 mins; March 03, 2023
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
91 hours 32 mins; February 24, 2023
E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
91 hours 12 mins; February 17, 2023
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
109 hours 45 mins; February 11, 2023
E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
72 hours 33 mins; February 03, 2023
E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
98 hours 30 mins; January 27, 2023
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
96 hours 39 mins; January 20, 2023
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
91 hours 59 mins; January 13, 2023
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
98 hours 7 mins; January 06, 2023
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
137 hours 15 mins; December 24, 2022
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
89 hours 24 mins; December 16, 2022
E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
73 hours 50 mins; December 10, 2022
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
101 hours 59 mins; December 03, 2022
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
107 hours 51 mins; November 19, 2022
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
85 hours 18 mins; November 12, 2022
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
88 hours 51 mins; November 05, 2022
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
96 hours 1 min; October 29, 2022
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
101 hours 5 mins; October 22, 2022
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
89 hours 53 mins; October 14, 2022
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
85 hours 30 mins; October 07, 2022
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
79 hours 38 mins; September 30, 2022
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
84 hours 54 mins; September 23, 2022
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
91 hours 31 mins; September 16, 2022
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
