E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind's AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
All-In Podcast, LLC
4.0 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Referenced in the show:
NYT - The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/style/trust-fund-activism-resouce-generation.html
Coinbase - An upcoming story about Coinbase
https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012afc25d27
NYT - 'Tokenized': Inside Black Workers' Struggles at the King of Crypto Start-Ups
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-cryptocurrency-black-employees.html
Show Notes:
0:00 Besties intro, fashion talk & the All-In Syndicate
3:47 Insights on Slack being acquired by Salesforce for $27.7B - why did they sell, are there any nitpicks, was this a home run for Salesforce?
19:14 Sacks on going up against Marc Benioff and Salesforce Chatter while at Yammer, importance of holding onto winners as long as possible
27:26 Why is DeepMind's AlphaFold a major breakthrough? When will it begin impacting drug discovery? Dangers of AI at scale
47:07 Republican party misfires, Georgia runoff implications, can Trump pre-pardon his family, Biden's effective strategy so far
59:21 Trump's Section 230 gambit, will Trumpism fade away?
1:05:23 Trust Fund socialists
1:26:14 Coinbase vs. NYT round 2, https://www.thesyndicate.com/allin
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, besties are back besties are back going around the horn rainman david sacks calling in from an undisclosed location |
| 0:08.0 | Suffering through two code thirteens in one lifetime and david freedberg is here the queen of kinhwa |
| 0:15.8 | Spacking everything in sight living the life calling in from a |
| 0:21.8 | Non-descript rich callton room. It's appears to be |
| 0:24.7 | a |
| 0:26.7 | course the dictator himself |
| 0:29.1 | Jamoth polyhopatia cacling like a fool |
| 0:33.6 | Welcome back everybody. This is what you pay for with your subscription to the all-in podcast brought to you by slack |
| 0:41.2 | If you didn't own slack shares |
| 0:44.7 | raise your hand |
| 0:46.8 | It's been an incredible |
| 0:49.1 | week |
| 0:50.5 | On a number of levels we're going to talk this week about |
| 0:53.1 | uh salesforce buying slack |
| 0:55.9 | Trump and section 230 |
| 0:57.9 | uh the coin base the ongoing coin base saga |
| 1:02.0 | uh |
| 1:03.1 | Freeberg found some interesting science that could save humanity |
| 1:07.3 | And of course the trust fund socialists in the new york times who hate their parents for giving the money |
| 1:14.0 | uh |
| 1:15.1 | Let's start off |
| 1:17.1 | The most important thing what is that |
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