Jason Calacanis
Guest on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Host of All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Jason Calacanis is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, author, and podcaster best known as a co-host of the All-In podcast and host of This Week in Startups. He is the founder and CEO of Inside.com and LAUNCH, and previously co-founded and led the blog network Weblogs, Inc., which was acquired by AOL.
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All About Me👍 Recommends
…summer reading recommendations featuring mel brooks autobiography
“I love biographies. And I went biography crazy this summer. All About Me by Mel Brooks. Amazing. And he reads it. So a great audio book.”
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Blood on the Tracks👍 Recommends
…recommending bob dylan albums to listen to
“I want you to listen to Blood on the Tracks. Then, I want you to listen to Infidels, another- Which is like his best of the 80s. Infidels and Blood on the Tracks. Those are two- And Empire Burlesque, a third one. People consider Blood on the Tracks the seminal album.”
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Comedy Samurai👍 Recommends
…summer reading recommendations featuring larry charles memoir
“Comedy Samurai by Larry Charles I just finished a couple weeks ago. And that was the guy who did Borat. And what was the gay character that Sacha Baron Cohen did? Bruno.”
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Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense👍 Recommends
…senator joe manchin discussing his new autobiography about bipartisanship
“Alright everybody, welcome back to the All-In Podcast. We are super pleased to have with us today, Senator Joe Manchin is joining us today here on the All-In Interview and Chamath and I will be interviewing him on his new book, Dead Center in Defense of Common Sense. A great book, welcome to the program, Joe Manchin.”
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Empire Burlesque👍 Recommends
…recommending bob dylan albums from the 1980s
“Empire Burlesque and Infidels from the 80s. This is Dylan at the really interesting height of creativity. And then Blood on the Tracks, post his 60s, 70s faux rock stuff in that transition.”
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I Regret Almost Everything👍 Recommends
…summer reading recommendations featuring keith mcnally memoir about running iconic restaurants
“Finally, my fourth pick for Bios of the Summer, I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally, who is the restaurateur. He had a stroke. He has an Instagram where he's like pretty spicy. And he did Balthazar, Pastis, Odeon, all these incredibly iconic places.”
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Infidels👍 Recommends
…recommending bob dylan albums from the 1980s
“Infidels and Blood on the Tracks. Those are two- And Empire Burlesque, a third one. Empire Burlesque and Infidels from the 80s. This is Dylan at the really interesting height of creativity.”
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Mac Studio👍 Recommends
…running open source ai models locally on commodity hardware for cost efficiency
“We are ordering Mac Studios, the really powerful studios with like Mac's memory on them. And they're putting Kimmy. Is that the new open source one? Kimmy K2.5. Yeah, we're putting Kimmy on them. We're going to have free.”
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Mac Studio💬 Mentioned
…running local language models on personal computer hardware
“And how do you think about local models? I have started running Kimi 2.5 on a Mac Studio. It's not as good as Claude or Gemini or Grok. But you can probably do about 80% there for free. Yeah. Essentially.”
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Mac Studio👍 Recommends
…deploying apple hardware for running local ai models and agents
“We have also, to your point, Chamath, fired up Mac Studios. We are moving all of the work onto these. And then they'll use Kimmy for most of their easy jobs, which is free.”
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MacBook Pro with M5👍 Recommends
…discussing Apple hardware capabilities for running local AI models
“I just got this MacBook with 48 gigs of RAM on it with an M5. It is unbelievable. And the new ones with the studio coming out are going to have a terabyte of RAM.”
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Modern Poker Theory👍 Recommends
…recommendations for books to read over the weekend
“Anybody got big plans for the weekend and any recommendations for people? I did some books to read. You guys got any shows or books you're reading right now? Any albums you're listening to? Any things you're obsessed with? I'm reading Modern Poker Theory by Michael Acevedo. Oh, really? This goes into GTO and that kind of stuff?”
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Monocle magazine👍 Recommends
…summer reading recommendations featuring design and lifestyle magazine subscription
“I used to be in the magazine business. I haven't subscribed to a magazine in well over a decade, you know. And I just subscribed to monocle.com, which is a bunch of like designers. And they, you know, it's like literally they have a print newspaper they put out. Once over the summer. And then they actually have a bound magazine. But it's an incredible, incredibly curated look at the world of design, hotels, restaurants, art, fashion.”
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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses👍 Recommends
…discussing smart glasses product for recording and content creation
“I bought the Ray-Bans from Meta. And I used them on my recent trip to New York. And it was quite compelling to wear them and live stream or to wear them and take pictures of the kids. And video, we took the ferries. It's a really nice ferry system in New York now that they've kind of brought back. And we took the ferry around the island and did a couple of things. And it was just really nice to not have people pose when you're doing a video.”
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Running Down a Dream👍 Recommends
…promoting a new book by investor bill gurley about entrepreneurship and dreams
“Hey, can I give a plug to friend of the pod, Bill Gurley? He's got an amazing new book. Phenomenal book. Running Down a Dream. Please. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Before you start. There it is. Running Down a Dream. I just want everybody to stop, pause the podcast. I want you to buy three copies. Give it to two young people and a parent you know. This book is incredible. It's a great book. It's a great book. It really is inspiring for kids. And Bill Gurley, friend of the pod, he always shows up for us.”
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Running Down a Dream👍 Recommends
…bill gurley's new book and fellowship program for dream chasers
“You handed the baton over at Benchmark after a very successful couple of decades in venture capital. You wrote the book. You've now got a nonprofit. You're doing your own spin, I think, on maybe what Peter Thiel does with his fellowship. You started your own Running Down a Dream fellowship, I understand. It's called ourdad.org, runningdownadream.org. There's a website we can give a link to. We're going to do $5,000 grants to people who want to chase their dreams but need some help.”
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Shocks headphones👍 Recommends
…open-ear headphones alternative to traditional over-ear headphones for parental control
“By the way, I also have a tip for parents. You know this issue with kids in headphones where they want to be listening to stuff all the time and you have kids walking around like zombies with headphones? I replaced their headphones with over the... These brand called Shocks or something. It goes over your ear. But your ear is open so you can listen to an audiobook or music and still be able to talk.”
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Silent Running👍 Recommends
…recommending classic science fiction films
“Maybe Silent Running. You like Silent Running. That's a good one. Logan's Run. Silent Running. Those are good shows. What, 1967? Yeah. And I think 74 for-”
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Street Legal👍 Recommends
…recommending a bob dylan album with standout track
“I will also give you a deep pull of Street Legal with an incredible track, Changing of the Guard. This you'll love, Chamath, because you also like the War on Drugs.”
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The Bitter Lesson👍 Recommends
…explaining the foundational ai principle guiding xai and elon's approach to artificial intelligence development
“Chamath sent us a link to The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton in the group chat. That's the 2019 blog post. We'll pull it up here for people to take a look at and put it in the show notes. The Bitter Lesson basically says in a nutshell that you're always better off when you're trying to solve an AI problem, taking a general learning approach that can scale with computation.”
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What About Bob?💬 Mentioned
…jason discussing showing the film what about bob to children at a birthday party
“I had a bunch of seven and eight year olds over for my daughter's birthday party and we did a film so I said oh you guys should watch Bill Murray and what about Bob and this was like a loved film PG I thought this would be fine they're eight years old and in the film they use all these you know dick breath idiot you know they just do this thing and then I went to school the next day and three parents cornered me here in the Bay Area can we talk to you about your film selection my daughter came home and she said dick breath”
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Whisper Flow👍 Recommends
…tools for hands-free interaction with ai for productivity
“If you're intimidated about this and maybe think like I'm already too far behind, I encourage you to pop up, Claude, go into co-work and say, what can I do to be better at my job? And just start talking. And literally, the more you talk and you can use voice, you know, text to voice. I use Whisperflow is a really cool program for this. And I have a foot pedal to do it.”
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Who Knew👍 Recommends
…summer reading recommendations featuring barry diller's memoir
“I'm almost finished with Who Knew by Barry Diller, who at like 24 years old. Yeah, that's great. It's incredible.”
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