Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust

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What did the hosts discuss in the opening banter and introductions?

Jason Calacanis 0:00
All right, Sax, how you doing, brother? Wait, wait, what's this? Why are you wearing a tie?
Chamath Palihapitiya 0:03
I'm in D C today, so it's uh it's a government day.
Jason Calacanis 0:06
Ah, so you suited up with the ties. You suited up with the ties. Well, maybe I'll join you. Maybe I'll join you. Oh look. Oh, look. What is this box I just got? Oh, that's for my guy Tom. Oh, just for J Cal? Mr. Jason Calacanas. Let's see what's in the box here.
Chamath Palihapitiya 0:21
Tom Ford sent you something?
Jason Calacanis 0:22
Oh, Tom sent me a nice tie. Maybe I'll go all blue. Oh.
Chamath Palihapitiya 0:27
I uh I heard that Moose ate your invitation to the White House. He did. He did. Sorry about that.
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Jason Calacanis 0:52
All right, everybody. Welcome back to the number one podcast in the universe. In the universe, it's been proven time and time again. Oh fuck this. I'm not putting Ah, okay. It's just it's enough already. I I guess Friday We we moved the show to Friday. Sorry, you're getting this on Saturday. That's why you
Chamath Palihapitiya 1:10
can't come to the White House. You can't figure out a
Jason Calacanis 1:12
tie. Yeah. Well, maybe you could show me how to do this next time I'm in town. I've got to practice with you. Would you go in the mirror? You could that'd be a great bit. You behind me show me how to do a tie.

What happened behind the scenes at the White House Tech Dinner?

Jason Calacanis 1:22
We didn't have ties in Brooklyn. What do you want me to do? All right. Well, it was an eventful week. Some of our besties. Some, not all, were invited apparently to a uh a little soiree at the White House with the president. Sachs and Shabbat, here's a photo. Some pretty good seeing arrangement here. It looks like Zuckerberg got the uh pole position on the right hand of the father. Followed by Saxy Pooh and Shemouth and Amore. sitting right across from Sam Altman Tim Cook. What a crowd. What a crowd. What was the um What was the uh impetus for this dinner, Sax? Tell us.
Chamath Palihapitiya 2:02
Well, this was a tech dinner at the White House. I think it originally started with a group that Shamath organized in Silicon Valley and they were kind of the core nucleus of this and then more and more people just wanted to come and try to get in and The president invited some of the top tech leaders and Pretty soon it turned into the room that you saw there. I mean it's really pretty amazing. President Trump's ability to convene all of these people. You normally don't get these people in a room together. Many of them are competitors. And it's remarkable you pretty much had, I'd say like maybe half the tech industry was there. By market cap, certainly. By market cap for sure.
Jason Calacanis 2:39
Yeah. And uh Chamath, you obviously were involved here and uh you got a pretty good seat. Any uh great inside stories? Any inside baseball? What did they serve, by the way? I'm curious, what gets served at a dinner like this? That was
Chamath Palihapitiya 2:51
a very elegant menu. And they they try to keep it light so that it's not overwhelming, which I think can get in the way. So like So no
Jason Calacanis 3:00
prime rib, right?
Chamath Palihapitiya 3:01
It was a burrata salad and then there was a a filet and then a nice raspberry dessert. Okay. Here's what I'll tell you. Sack said it well. What was incredible? For me, just to frankly, be in the room felt very surreal. You're seeing the leaders of the most important companies in the world sitting together. And I just felt like there was a sense of alignment and cooperation. And that was really cool. I think none of those folks. have to really show up anywhere that they don't have to. I think they're at a place in their career and the importance of the businesses that they run. But the fact that the president can convene them, I think says a lot about him and the agenda. And then they 201 were incredibly supportive of what he has done and clearing the way and allowing them to build their businesses with a lot more clarity.
Chamath Palihapitiya 3:50
It was just very clear the juxtaposition of what it was like and the difficulty under Biden versus what it was now. And you saw some very truly hard-cast liberals who have now completely embraced President Trump, folks like Tim Cook, folks like Bill Gates. And I think that that's an incredible technical. And then the second thing, which is more personal,

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