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Jason Calacanis

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

Here's Zuckerberg for 36.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

Okay, so what Zuckerberg did at the same time, concurrently he told everybody, we're laying off these 8,000 people.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

A lot of those people are incredibly talented.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

Some of them are on H-1B visas, creates all kinds of chaos for them in their personal lives, and obviously they're having record profits there as well.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

At the same time, he was laying off those 8,000 people.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

This is after tens of thousands of layoffs before, which were obviously because of bloating.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

He said, we're putting recording software on every single person in the company's computers to study and train our model.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

And people were like, oh.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

And previous people said, I built during the AI hackathons they had months ago.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

I...

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

built all this AI tools to make my job more efficient.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

And then Zuckerberg laid me off.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

So the now for the perception people have now, and it's quite correct, I think, is the most you can hope for here is you keep this job for some amount of time and train your way out of it.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

And hopefully there's some more work for you.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

But they're studying you and Zuckerberg just said it plainly there, hey, we're going to study everybody here.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

And that's going to lead to more replacements.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

This is scaring the bejesus out of people.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

And we need to have an answer for it.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

Yeah.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

I thought the Matthew Prince note was horrible.