E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model, microplastics & more

**Jason Calacanis** (0:00)
All right, everybody, welcome to the 54th annual World Economic Forum here in Davos. You guys didn't know this, but as elites ourselves, we were invited to kick off the festivities.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:12)
Surplus elites.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:13)
Yeah, the All-In podcast, very popular. And so they wanted us to come and represent the pod and our audience there.
And it's been amazing if you haven't seen some of the great musical performances this year. I mean, they're so notable. Let's just start off here. I mean, guys, we were here for this live.
Soak it in? I mean, it's better on the replay, isn't it?

**David Sacks** (0:37)
There's the air flute.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:42)
Wait, wait, there's a great moment where she really starts vibing. Wait for the head shake.
The eyebrows are great, but the head shake comes in about there.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:54)
I like your moo moo. I like your moo moo.

**David Sacks** (0:56)
Have you ever played the air flute? Or just the skin flute, Chamath?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:59)
Just the skin flute. I went there.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:02)
It's like a high school thing. But guys, guys, this isn't it. There were other, there was a witch doctor or something. I'm not sure exactly what's going on here. I'm going to just apologize in advance for mocking this. Or for Sacks mocking it, I should say.
This was incredible. I don't know exactly what's going on here with the blowing of the hair.

**David Sacks** (1:25)
We've come a long way from COVID, that's for sure.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:28)
So they're blowing the COVID on each person's forehead here to spread the COVID. They've all taken the mRNA vaccine. But you know, we each have a speaking gig. Each of us is speaking. And so I thought to kick us off here, gentlemen, instead of us just telling everybody our schedule, I would sing our schedule.
And so let me just grab, let me see if I got my guitar here.

**David Sacks** (1:52)
Hold on.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:54)
Let me just grab it here. Oh, here it is.
Hold on.

**David Sacks** (1:57)
It's happened to have the guitar here. Is that a guitar or a real guitar?

**David Friedberg** (1:59)
Oh, no, it's a real guitar.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:00)
It's actually a real guitar here. So, but I thought, you know, everybody is really excited about each of our speaking gigs. So I thought we would just kick it off here. Let me just see if it's in tune.
You guys hear that?

**David Friedberg** (2:16)
Alright, I think we got it.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:29)
In the dictator lounge at noon of Kumbaya. Conquering Europe, Kumbaya.
Now, there's a little audience participation in here, besties.

**David Friedberg** (2:44)
I need you each to sing with me.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:46)
Okay.
We're going to start here. It's going to be just listen one time and then you're going to repeat. Okay.

**David Friedberg** (2:50)
Here we go. It's hard to keep it together.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:56)
Oh, Davos Kumbaya. Just Oh Davos Kumbaya. Ready? Three, two.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (3:08)
Very good. Very good.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:09)
Okay. Now we go to the next verse here.
Hunter Biden after party at 1 a.m. Eight balls and escorts for everyone brought to you by Barisama. That's for you, Sacks. And now you all sing.

**David Sacks** (4:07)
You really are the world's greatest moderator.

**Jason Calacanis** (4:26)
Yes, the World Economic Forum is wrapping up in Davos. If you don't know what the WEF is, I'll just give you the brief over you. 3, people, five days, tons of parties. Happens in Davos, Switzerland. It's run by a foundation.
They call these non-government organizations, NGOs.
You can think of it kind of like the TED Conference. Topic this year was rebuilding trust. It's politicians, business leaders, economists, journalists, all the elites. The mission statement of the WEF, improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It's a money printing machine.
I'll give you a funny backstory later if you care to know, but basically they try to shake it down for about 40 grand a year to go to this thing. Tons of notable moments that we can get to on the docket here. Friedberg, any highlights for you watching this, you know, get mocked on social media? This year it's been a slow unraveling from this being something that people used to flex about going to Davos. Now people are literally apologizing on social media, X, Twitter, et cetera, explaining why they're going because they're kind of feeling shame in going to this event. So what are your thoughts on the sort of whole flipping of this from being a flex to requiring an apology in advance?