E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more

Jason Calacanis (0:00)

Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the All-In Podcast with us today. Again, the Queen of Quinoa, David Friedberg, David Sacks, the Rain Man himself, and of course, the dictator here, Chamath. And let's get ready. It's time.

Chamath and Sacks. Here it comes, everybody.

Sacks is ready. In the red corner, representing Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and rich people everywhere, David the Rain Man Sacks. And in the blue corner, representing LBJ, the underserved, the forgotten, the underdogs, the woke left, Chamath Palihapitiya.

David Sacks (1:17)

And I will also be representing John F. Kennedy, who set a rising tide lifts all boat, and maybe even some Bill Clinton.

David Friedberg (1:24)

Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, I was going to say. Don't forget, the champion of the left and the right.

Yeah.

Chamath Palihapitiya (1:31)

Bill Clinton did a great job. He ended, he ended the welfare state.

Jason Calacanis (1:35)

All right. So here we go, folks.

In, in show housekeeping, we do need to point out that we've been running some polls.

The fans of the show have been running polls. And I don't even know why I'm bringing this up because I got barbecued in them. But we have three polls we need to share with the audience from Twitter. The first is, if you can have just one of the all-in pod besties to mentor you and your startup growth, who would it be and why? Looks like Rain Man, you ran away with that one with 39 percent, The Dictator with 34, Queen of Quinoa coming in at 17, and Uber's their fourth investor came in with a measly 8 percent.

David Friedberg (2:15)

I will tell you, this is why 83 percent of startups fail. They choose the wrong mentor.

David Sacks (2:24)

So I was, I was proud to win this one, but the truth is, so Chamath was slightly ahead.

And then I put my thumb on the scale by retweeting the poll, because obviously my followers are more likely to vote for me. So then I shot ahead and I kept real quiet because I didn't want Chamath retweeting it to his 1.2 million followers. And if he had done that, he probably would have blown me out of the water, but I kept real quiet till the time elapsed. And then I, and then I shared it with the group.

Chamath Palihapitiya (2:51)

Nobody keeps a track of followers, but it's actually closer to 1.5.

Jason Calacanis (2:55)

The only person who knows your follower count better than you, Chamath, is Phil Hellmuth.

Phil Hellmuth actually, every morning Phil Hellmuth subscribes, subtracts his number of subscribers from yours to know the net. Alright, second poll came up. Thanks, Matt, for this, by the way, Matt Yarger, no friend of mine. Alright, per request, let's do another poll and see the other side of this story. If you could have just one of the All-In pod besties moderate your podcast, who would you choose?

And it turns out the dictator 31% to my 30.6%, a full 1% more than me. I came in second, world's best wingman and Rain Man, 21%, Queen of King-Wa, 16%. And then most importantly, which bestie would you want on your side in a bar fight?

David Friedberg (3:47)

I will say Chamath's smooth, velvety voice that ran away for him here.

David Sacks (3:53)

Thank you. I think the audience is just trying to hurt Jason.

They're just trying to hurt Jason. That was it.

Chamath Palihapitiya (4:01)

Jason has heard he's inadequate by more than 1% for a long time. Usually it's measured in inches, not percentages.

Jason Calacanis (4:10)

Somebody was dunking on me on Twitter and they're like, you're the poorest of all your friends. I was like, that's the strategy. Always have more powerful and richer friends than you. Then you don't have to worry about picking up the check.

Then there was another interesting AI breakthrough this week.

Chamath Palihapitiya (4:28)

Wait, did you talk about the bar fight? I'm curious.

Jason Calacanis (4:30)

The bar fight won. Hold on. You're right. I didn't get to that one.

The bar fight was... Here we go. For some reason, these morons seem to think that your stick legs are going to help them in a fight.

Chamath Palihapitiya (4:44)

Bro, that's a bad... Honestly, I need to correct this. That was maybe bad lighting or a bad camera angle.

Honestly, they're not... Guys, guys, guys, guys. Honestly, come on. They are not as skinny as people seem to be railing. And honestly, I'm happy to... Prove it. If there's a standard way of measuring...

Okay, you know what, Jason? If there's a standard way, if somebody can tell us, what is the standard way of measuring leg circumference, I'm happy to submit my measurements. I don't think they're that skinny.