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**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:00)
Chamath, did you go down to the breakthrough thing this weekend?
The breakthrough prize was amazing. It's like observing exotic animals in their natural habitat. Well, a friend of mine, who you hung out with down there, called me last night to give me the breakdown on all the individuals he saw and what was going on with them. I mean, I don't even know how Nat and I keep getting invited to this. But to say we were outclassed is an understatement. The people at that thing were.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:24)
What is this, the breakthrough prize? Yeah, I couldn't make it. I got invited to shout out to Yuri.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:30)
First of all, shout out to Yuri and Julia. It is incredible. There were two moments where I cried.
This woman goes up on stage to give an award to the people that had made this investment in cystic fibrosis.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:44)
Yeah.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:45)
She says, my child was born with cystic fibrosis, and then my second child was born with cystic fibrosis, and then my second child died. She said that, I just burst into tears. Then you present an award to the person that actually is helping them stamp out the disease. We celebrated the people that found the gene that caused Parkinson's.
The people at that is pretty incredible.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:09)
It's in LA, right? They did it in Los Angeles?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:12)
Yeah. Look, Yuri Milner and Julia Milner, Zuck and Priscilla Chan, and Anne Wojcik and Sergey Brin. Those six people are the ones that organize this Breakthrough Prize, and I think it's just a modern version of the Nobel, which tries to really shine a spotlight on people doing really groundbreaking work in physics and math and life sciences. You get people that have just done things that are just very practical and are very real.
I think what they do is they make, frankly, these kinds of achievements much more high level in the sense that you're bringing together people from Hollywood and people from Silicon Valley and the awareness is up and it's just incredibly well-produced. Yeah, it's really a cool thing to be a part of. But I mean, seeing some of these people are very intimidating. I sat beside Vin Diesel. That was super cool. He is a super nice guy.
And on the other side of me was someone that actually Sacks knows, Toby Emmerich, who was the chairman of Warner Brothers. So just talking to these guys was super cool.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:24)
Moving it to Los Angeles was a great move.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:26)
Great idea.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:27)
Yeah, it's just I was invited. I couldn't make it. So sorry. Thank you to Julia and Yuri for inviting us again.
But it's really great that they're giving it the celebration it deserves and making it, you know, like dare I say, sexy and cool and hip to be a scientist and solve the world's biggest problems. I think it's just so awesome. And you're right, Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki, Sack & Priscilla and Julia and Yuri are the founders of the Breakthrough Prize.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:58)
The craziest thing is they give a youth Breakthrough Award. So the Breakthrough Prize is this beautiful globe. And then the junior winner gets like a smaller version, very appropriate. And it was a video of this kid in India who had won it a few years ago, and then went off to MIT and then graduated.
And then the video is of him coming back to Bangalore, because his sister had won it this year. And he presented to the sister. And all I could think of was, this is an incredible achievement by a 16-year-old.
And literally at the same time, my 16-year-old was like, dad, the chicken tenders from DoorTash have got around.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:59)
Dad, I said, get me the spicy fries, not the regular Cajun fries.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (4:05)
The girl that won it, Friedberg, did something with Yamanaka Factors.
So it's really incredible and inspiring. But fortunately, don't worry, my 16-year-old was able to get the chicken tenders and everything was fine.

**Jason Calacanis** (4:19)
You called s*** and rerouted it?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (4:22)
I called s*** and you can't get his chicken tenders. What do we do?
By the way, the other thing I'll say is, the person that performed is really amazing, Charlie Puth. The reason I say it is, if you Google Charlie Puth, this guy, he's a young guy in his early 20s, I'm guessing. He is so talented. There's all these videos of Charlie Puth where he'll make a random noise, like he'll clink a Coke bottle with a fork, and then he'll record it, and then he'll put it into these digital editing tools, and then he'll make an entire five-minute song using that as the bass, like as the basic building block.