E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

(0:00) Bestie intros: Friedberg fills in as moderator!

(2:45) Wagner Group rebellion

(23:15) SCOTUS strikes down Affirmative Action

(51:03) Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B, Inflection raises $1.3B

(1:09:35) IRL shuts down after faking 95% of users, Byju's seeks to raise emergency $1B as founder control in jeopardy

(1:26:38) Science Corner: Understanding the NANOGrav findings

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Intro Music Credit:

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https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Intro Video Credit:

https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect

Referenced in the show:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-western-assessment/index.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-wagner-russia-treason-coup-b2363430.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia

https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings

https://twitter.com/MatreshkaRF/status/1673209794608365570

https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/la-vie-en-rose-why-kremlin-blacklisted-levada-center

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/world/africa/central-african-republic-wagner-africa-syria.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-rejects-affirmative-action-at-colleges-says-schools-cant-consider-race-in-admission.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1674426520100814848

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-percent-white-students-are-legacy-athletes-n1060361

https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-strikes-1-3-billion-deal-for-generative-ai-startup-mosaicml-fdcefc06

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-accelerate-search-in-the-data-cloud-through-generative-ai

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/06/29/inflection-ai-raises-1-billion-for-chatbot-pi

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/social-app-irl-which-raised-200-million-shuts-down-after-ceo-misconduct-probe

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-backed-messaging-app-irl-says-it-has-20-million-users-some-employees-have-doubts-about-that

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-27/byju-s-seeks-to-raise-1-billion-to-sidestep-shareholder-revolt

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/prosus-byjus-markdown

https://twitter.com/shaig/status/1673836979903950851

https://www.ft.com/content/b8a4214f-7f64-4d3a-97c4-4731f2effb0d

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1674469606746992651

https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/my-conversation-with-robert-f-kennedy

https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-enormous-gravity-hum-moves-through-the-universe-20230628

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/116

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(0:00) Bestie intros: Friedberg fills in as moderator!

(2:45) Wagner Group rebellion

(23:15) SCOTUS strikes down Affirmative Action

(51:03) Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B, Inflection raises $1.3B

(1:09:35) IRL shuts down after faking 95% of users, Byju's seeks to raise emergency $1B as founder control in jeopardy

(1:26:38) Science Corner: Understanding the NANOGrav findings

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks

https://twitter.com/friedberg

Follow the pod:

https://twitter.com/theallinpod

https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Intro Video Credit:

https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect

Referenced in the show:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-western-assessment/index.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-wagner-russia-treason-coup-b2363430.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia

https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings

https://twitter.com/MatreshkaRF/status/1673209794608365570

https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/la-vie-en-rose-why-kremlin-blacklisted-levada-center

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/world/africa/central-african-republic-wagner-africa-syria.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-rejects-affirmative-action-at-colleges-says-schools-cant-consider-race-in-admission.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1674426520100814848

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-percent-white-students-are-legacy-athletes-n1060361

https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-strikes-1-3-billion-deal-for-generative-ai-startup-mosaicml-fdcefc06

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-accelerate-search-in-the-data-cloud-through-generative-ai

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/06/29/inflection-ai-raises-1-billion-for-chatbot-pi

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/social-app-irl-which-raised-200-million-shuts-down-after-ceo-misconduct-probe

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-backed-messaging-app-irl-says-it-has-20-million-users-some-employees-have-doubts-about-that

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-27/byju-s-seeks-to-raise-1-billion-to-sidestep-shareholder-revolt

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/prosus-byjus-markdown

https://twitter.com/shaig/status/1673836979903950851

https://www.ft.com/content/b8a4214f-7f64-4d3a-97c4-4731f2effb0d

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1674469606746992651

https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/my-conversation-with-robert-f-kennedy

https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-enormous-gravity-hum-moves-through-the-universe-20230628

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/116

2023-07-01 96 min
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