All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Triple H on WWE's Evolution, the Rise of the Antihero, and the Psychology of Stardom
03 Nov 2025
(0:00) Introducing Paul "Triple H" Levesque (0:56) The skills needed to be an effective professional wrestler, understanding the characteristics of President Trump and The Rock (5:41) The rise of the antihero / heel persona, and why modern wrestling is more morally grey (8:43) WWE vs UFC: Why they are opposites, star building (11:21) Physicality of the WWE and how they support wrestlers (14:13) The business of the WWE: using streaming and social as a funnel for live events, the magic of live WWE (21:28) Helping America's youth via physical fitness (23:35) How the internet forced wrestlers to blend their in ring personas with real-life Thanks to our partners for making this happen! Solana - Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Connect with investors, crypto founders, and entrepreneurs at Solana's global flagship event during Abu Dhabi Finance Week & F1: https://solana.com/breakpoint OKX - The new way to build your crypto portfolio and use it in daily life. We call it the new money app. https://www.okx.com/ Google Cloud - The next generation of unicorns is building on Google Cloud's industry-leading, fully integrated AI stack: infrastructure, platform, models, agents, and data. https://cloud.google.com/ IREN - IREN AI Cloud, powered by NVIDIA GPUs, provides the scale, performance, and reliability to accelerate your AI journey. https://iren.com/ Oracle - Step into the future of enterprise productivity at Oracle AI Experience Live. https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/data-ai-events/ Circle - The America-based company behind USDC ā a fully-reserved, enterprise-grade stablecoin at the core of the emerging internet financial system. https://www.circle.com/ BVNK - Building stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure that helps businesses send, store, and spend value instantly, anywhere in the world. https://www.bvnk.com/ Polymarket - The world's largest prediction market. https://www.polymarket.com/ Follow Triple H: https://x.com/TripleH Follow the besties: https://x.com/chamath https://x.com/Jason https://x.com/DavidSacks https://x.com/friedberg Follow on X: https://x.com/theallinpod Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theallinpod Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theallinpod Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allinpod Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://x.com/yung_spielburg
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14-time WWE World Champion, a two-time Royal Rumble winner, and now he's behind the scenes running World Wrestling Entertainment.
Triple A! Welcome to the Netflix era!
Whether it be a mentor, a leader, or an executive, his love and passion for this industry hasn't changed.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the WWE's Paul Levesque. All right.
Yeah. Thanks for coming. Welcome. So the audience may not know this, but I'm a big professional wrestling fan, going back to my childhood in Memphis, Tennessee. In Memphis, we didn't have any professional sports growing up. All we had was Memphis State Tigers basketball and professional wrestling at the Mid-South Coliseum on Monday nights. That was pretty much it.
Jerry Lawler was so popular in Memphis that he could have been elected mayor, and I think he almost was. So it was really a wrestling town. But so growing up, I watched you and WWE. And I would say that Triple H was the premier heel champion, the unstoppable force of the whole Attitude Era. And it's a thrill to have you here.
And since then, you've transitioned into being the chief creative officer at WWE and had a huge business career. So I think I want to talk to you about both those things. Maybe let's start with your career as a performer. And I don't know if people understand everything that goes into being a WWE superstar, but you've got to be, first of all, you've got to be a tremendous athlete.
You're a stunt man because you're doing tremendously dangerous things. You have to be able to cut promos, which means you're basically an actor, but you also have to write your own dialogue. And you've got to be a charismatic star to all the fans. There's a lot that goes into it.
How many people are cut out for this type of work?
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