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Travis Kalanick is best known for co-founding Uber and building it into one of the world’s largest transportation platforms. Before Uber, he spent years building Red Swoosh under extreme financial pressure. He says he took no salary for its first four years, repeatedly ran out of money and lost much of his social life to the co
(0:00) Gavin Baker joins the show!(2:36) Anthropic IPO report: $2T valuation, $100B+ run rate, October listing(27:32) Zuck's AI manifesto: What it means for Meta and frontier AI(56:41) All-In Summit Speaker Announcements!(58:13) Nvidia's $500B financing plan, how the AI market could fall apart(1:14:29) NJ and Mamdani take on Amazon over subcontracted drivers(1:27:32) Grok 4.6 launch: SpaceX's high-ceiling, high-floor AI strategy(1:35:21) Workday in talks to be acquired by Silver Lake for ~$43BApply for Summit 2026:https://allin.com/eventsFollow Gavin:https://x.com/gavinsbakerFollow the besties: https://x.com/chamathhttps://x.com/Jasonhttps://x.com/DavidSackshttps://x.com/friedbergFollow on X:https://x.com/theallinpodFollow on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theallinpodFollow on TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@theallinpodFollow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allinpodIntro Music Credit:https://rb.gy/tppkzlhttps://x.com/yung_spielburgIntro Video Credit:https://x.com/TheZachEffectReferenced in the show:https://www.ft.com/content/840ac156-af1c-4a82-b260-ae791072fcfahttps://polymarket.com/event/ipos-before-2027https://polymarket.com/event/which-company-has-best-ai-model-end-of-2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/anthropic-said-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-6-billionhttps://x.com/elonmusk/status/2052069691372478511https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryonehttps://x.com/Home_of_Fight/status/2086504599444140344https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2086934705207959965https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/nj-amazon-antitrust-lawsuit-delivery-contractors.htmlhttps://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/WDAY:NASDAQhttps://www.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social-Policy/dp/046508995Xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/nyregion/mamdani-amazon-delivery-workers-nyc.html
(0:00) The most controversial company in privacy right now, Flock CEO joins the show!(7:23) License plate data retention: 7 days solves 90% of crimes(13:00) Camera vandalism, felony charges, and privacy concerns(18:15) Dirty cops exposed: Flock's audit tool got 9 Georgia officers fired(28:25) AI, drones, facial recognition, and avoiding predictive policing(39:43) Safety is a privilege and who actually needs Flock(45:36) Flock’s PR crisis: internal morale, churn, and 20 cities turning the cameras back onThanks to our partners for making this possible!AppLovin Ads is AppLovin's AI advertising platform reaching over a billion daily active users across mobile games. Full-screen video ads with a 35-second median watch time. Advertisers are profitably spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. AppLovin Ads is now open to all advertisers. Sign up at http://applovin.com/ALLIN Numeral is the trusted solution for U.S. sales tax, VAT, and GST, used by 3,000+ businesses globally. They handle registrations, filings, and tax rates, so you can stay ahead of risk. Learn more at https://www.numeral.com/?utm_source=all-inFollow Garrett:https://x.com/glangley Follow the besties: https://x.com/chamath https://x.com/Jason https://x.com/DavidSacks https://x.com/friedberg Follow on X:https://x.com/theallinpod Follow on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theallinpod Follow on TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@allin Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allinpod Intro Music Credit:https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://x.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit:https://x.com/TheZachEffect #allin #tech #news
Sam Altman has spent his career at the intersection of startups, investing and artificial intelligence. He says he was fascinated by AI as a child in St. Louis, studied it in college and eventually helped start OpenAI in 2015 after concluding that the most important opportunities often begin as non-consensus bets. His experience investing in startups taught him to look for power laws, back unconventional talent and recognize the decisions that can change a company’s trajectory. At OpenAI, Altman says most of his effort goes toward research and compute. Scaling compute requires coordinating chips, fabrication plants, data centers, power systems, finance, policy, supply chains and logistics—what he describes as potentially the most expensive infrastructure project in history. He argues OpenAI should function primarily as a platform: one direct interface to powerful AI and one application programming interface that lets people build on top of it. That strategy requires killing good ideas to preserve resources for the great ones. Altman expects AI capabilities to advance faster than society and the economy can absorb them. Human habits and institutional inertia will slow the transition, which he believes may make it smoother. He also expects human connection to become more valuable and AI to enable a major increase in small-business formation. His central concern is that AI should expand human agency rather than concentrate power in a small number of companies, people or models. He also explains how Y Combinator shaped OpenAI’s operating philosophy: make non-consensus bets, put technical people in charge, ship early, learn from reality and iterate. Yet OpenAI required breaking the classic startup playbook. The organization spent four and a half years without launching a product and had to invent ways to measure research progress without customer feedback. On its first day, roughly a dozen people gathered in Greg Brockman’s apartment and quickly realized they did not know what to do next. Years of what Altman calls “chaotic stumbling” eventually produced the research path that led to GPT. Show notes: https://www.davidsenra.com/episode/sam-altman Made possible by Ramp: https://ramp.com AppLovin: https://applovin.com/senra Deel: https://deel.com/senra Chapters (00:00:00) Tobi Lütke, AI-Native Companies & Why Adoption Moves Slowly (00:05:45) Sam's Own Resistance to AI & the Missing iPhone Moment (00:10:00) Models, Compute, Power Laws & Non-Consensus Talent (00:18:37) From AI-Obsessed Kid to Founder, Investor & Back Again (00:23:19) Impossible Problems, Scientific Discovery & Human Connection (00:30:16) AI's Two Biggest Risks: Loss of Control & Centralized Power (00:33:09) Iterative Deployment, AI Safety & Learning From Reality (00:40:27) Why People Fear AI & the Coming Small-Business Boom (00:46:13) Context, Memory & the Next Way We Will Work With AI (00:49:17) OpenAI's Platform Strategy & Killing Good Ideas (00:53:20) Peter Thiel, Paul Graham & the Value of Nonlinear Thinkers (01:00:42) How Y Combinator Changed Startups & Shaped OpenAI (01:04:03) Learning More From Success & the Power of Repetition (01:09:45) Building OpenAI Without Customers, a Product or a Playbook (01:15:57) Letters to His Son & Preserving the Story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this AI debate, we explore: Whether humans will exist in 2040. What will happen once we reach AGI. Whether AI gets smart enough to act malevolently or benevolently towards humans. If AI will grow powerful enough to be out of human control. and much more... Guests Zack Kass is an AI futurist, advisor, speaker, and author. Liv Boeree is a physicist, science communicator, podcaster and former professional poker champion. Aric Floyd is an AI writer, and video producer. Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Timestamps: (00:00) Will Humans Still Be Around in 2040? (08:20) What Jobs Will Be Protected From AI? (14:22) Finding Meaning in a Post-Work World (23:13) Technology Is Pulling Us From Our Purpose (27:12) Where Do We Draw the Line With Outsourcing Thinking? (39:58) Is AI Unlocking Human Potential? (42:28) Refusal or Obedience: What’s More Dangerous? (46:01) The AI Attack That Should Worry Everyone (54:44) Should We Slow Down Advanced AI? (56:41) Does Recursive Research Actually Work? (01:10:52) How Safe Is AI? (01:14:01) Can We Reach a Peace Deal for a Superintelligent World? (01:22:38) Why AI 2040 Got So Much Right (01:26:21) Is AGI Inevitable? (01:30:39) Could Techno-Pastoralism Be the Future? (01:37:16) Is AI Replacing Human Connection? (01:45:36) How Do We Navigate the Purpose-Friction Problem? (02:00:50) Why Data Centre Policy Matters More Than Ever (02:05:56) The Concentration of Power Concern (02:11:39) Is the Frontier Strategy the Winning Condition? (02:18:17) Will AI Weaken Democracy? (02:29:11) How We Can Limit the Concentration of Power (02:31:45) Is ChatGPT Pessimistic About the Future? (02:37:54) What Should We Be Focused On? Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
(00:00) Besties are back!(00:13) Dario's two-part essay: regulatory capture, doomerism, and the data center backlash(10:25) FINRA for AI vs. MPAA for AI: SROs, thinking tokens, and the "DMV for AI"(30:12) Is an open source ban coming? Harnesses, FDI, jobs, and recursive self-improvement(56:33) a16z under DOJ investigation over "interlocking directorates"(1:01:15) Midterms: broken polls, the socialism surge, and CATO's DSA price tagCome hang with the Besties at the All-In Summit | September 13-15:http://theallinsummit.com #AllInSummitFollow the besties: https://x.com/chamathhttps://x.com/Jasonhttps://x.com/DavidSackshttps://x.com/friedbergFollow on X:https://x.com/theallinpodFollow on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theallinpodFollow on TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@allinFollow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allinpodIntro Music Credit:https://rb.gy/tppkzlhttps://x.com/yung_spielburgIntro Video Credit:https://x.com/TheZachEffect#allin #tech #news