Elites And Experts with David Sacks (S3 Ep.40)

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.5 • 625 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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My guest today is David Sacks. David is an entrepreneur, tech investor, film producer, and the co-host of the All-In podcast, which I highly recommend. He's General Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture capital firm he co-founded. David was the founding CEO of PayPal, which makes him a part of the so-called PayPal Mafia, which includes folks like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. He was an angel investor in Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Airbnb, and many other successful companies. He also produced the film "Thank You for Smoking", which was nominated for several Golden Globes. David and I talk about his background as an entrepreneur and investor. We discuss his critique of what he calls the "expert class" as well as the "professional class". We talk about the problems with elite colleges and universities. We discussed the attributes that made the PayPal Mafia so successful. We talk about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and his controversial leadership style. Finally, we also go on to talk about our mutual hobby - Chess. #Ad Cancel your unnecessary subscriptions right now at ROCKETMONEY.COM/COLEMAN. Sign up today at butcherbox.com/COLEMAN and use code COLEMAN to get 10% off your first box and ground beef for the life of your membership. Go to ro.co/coleman to get 20% off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.6	Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is David Sacks.
1:09.0	David is an entrepreneur, tech investor, film producer, and the co-host of the All-In
1:13.7	podcast, which I highly recommend.
1:15.8	He's general partner at Kraft Ventures, a venture capital firm he co-founded.
1:19.9	He was the founding CEO of PayPal, which makes him a part of the so-called PayPal Mafia,
1:24.3	which includes folks like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
1:29.4	He was an angel investor in Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Airbnb, and many other successful companies. And he produced the film
1:34.5	Thank You for Smoking, which was nominated for several Golden Globes. David and I talk about his
1:39.9	background as an entrepreneur and investor. We discuss his critique of what he calls the expert class,
1:45.3	as well as the professional class. We talk about the problems with elite colleges and universities.
1:50.5	We discuss the attributes that made the PayPal Mafia so successful. We talk about Elon Musk's
1:55.5	takeover of Twitter and his controversial leadership style. And finally, we talk about our mutual
2:00.2	hobby, chess. So without further ado,
2:03.4	David Sacks. David Sacks, thanks so much for coming on my show. Yeah, good to be here.
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