Rick Caruso on California's Collapse: Broken Leadership, LA Wildfire Failures & the Fix
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
All-In Podcast, LLC
4.2 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
(0:00) Introducing Rick Caruso
(1:03) Reflecting on the disastrous LA Wildfires: Karen Bass failure, saving the Palisades Village, failure to rebuild
(11:20) California's incompetence, running for CA Governor vs LA Mayor
(14:21) Attention to detail
(17:04) State of California: What it should be, homelessness, National Guard, policing
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| 0:00.0 | For people to know who Rick Caruso is, he's a great developer. |
| 0:03.0 | You walk into one of Caruso's places and it's safe, it's clean, you want to bring your kids. |
| 0:08.0 | Ideology did not save the palisades. |
| 0:11.0 | Competency, whatever. |
| 0:13.0 | Running this city is running a business for the benefit of the residents. |
| 0:17.0 | You've got to make good business decisions. |
| 0:20.0 | It was predictable, Bill. What's predictable |
| 0:22.2 | is preventable. Rick Caruso now has a golden road in the governor's race if he wants it. |
| 0:28.8 | What's happened to L.A. over the last decade is just tragic. It's sad to watch. |
| 0:34.8 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Rick Caruso. |
| 0:38.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:43.7 | This is, man. |
| 0:48.8 | Great to see it, brother. |
| 0:50.2 | Thank you for coming. |
| 0:51.6 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:52.8 | All right. |
| 0:53.7 | Make my rounds. Thank you. Good to see you. Good seeing you for coming. Thank you very much. All right. Make my rounds. |
| 0:55.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:55.9 | Good seeing you. |
| 0:58.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:59.8 | All right. |
| 1:01.3 | Rick, we're nine months out from the tragic fires. |
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