Shawn Wen

Jason Calacanis, the guy who called Kevin Benedicto an evil, incompetent fool, is one of the four hosts of the All In podcast.

The show has nearly 900,000 subscribers on YouTube.

And I want to talk about All In for a moment, specifically because of who those hosts are.

All four are powerful tech leaders.

All four are venture capitalists with connections to PayPal, Facebook, and Uber, among other companies.

They're powerful businessmen who've built up a very successful podcast.

Also, they've been some of the loudest critics of San Francisco politics since 2020.

Here's Calacanis.

The next voice is a guy named David Friedberg.

I used to live two blocks from where the event happened.

I'll zoom out.

It's in Soma at Rincon Center.

No, not necessarily.

It's just a nice area.

Look, here's the thing.

If you park at a parking meter in San Francisco for eight minutes too long, you get a $60 to $100 parking ticket.

And San Francisco has become an upside-down town.

What I mean by that is I think that like so much of the response to concerns about the powerful having too much influence over those who are less powerful, the response has been to turn things upside down, which is to give those who are lacking in the power structure everything and to try and take everything away from those who are at the top of the power structure.

Look, there are clearly differences between the all-in guys and right-wing pundits like Dave Rubin or the outright conspiracy theorists like Luke Rutkowski.

People listen to all-in because the hosts are incredibly successful investors offering business insights.