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Dec 2024
1h 28m

Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, ...

All-In Podcast, LLC
About this episode

(0:00) The Besties welcome Keith Rabois!

(4:01) Keith explains why he returned to Khosla Ventures, the differences between Founders Fund and Khosla, and his husband Jacob Helberg's role in Trump Admin

(13:09) Business acumen of Trump's cabinet and appointees, diversity of opinion

(25:59) Google's new quantum chip: potential impact on encryption, cryptography, and more

(43:50) Apple developing new server chip for AI inference, iOS flop, why its product culture is failing

(54:30) TikTok panics after appeals court upholds the "divest-or-ban" law, with a January 19th deadline

(1:03:55) State of Venture Capital, why Stripe is still private, thoughts on crypto

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Referenced in the show:

https://www.tiktok.com/@frankielapenna/video/7010077215576575238

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/06/trump-billionaires-cabinet-elon-musk

https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08449-y

https://research.google/blog/suppressing-quantum-errors-by-scaling-a-surface-code-logical-qubit

https://quantumai.google/roadmap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut_Neven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

https://www.discovery.com/science/Double-Slit-Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-is-working-on-ai-chip-with-broadcom?rc=pxkrxo

https://x.com/rabois/status/870673635375104000

https://www.amazon.com/Company-Giants-Conversations-Visionaries-Digital/dp/0070329656

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/09/tech/bytedance-tiktok-halt-us-ban-intl/index.html

https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-us-ban-sale-china-congress-de12b4d22aa8095e62cb0982a6e62235

https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-congress-bill-1c48466df82f3684bd6eb21e61ebcb8d

https://pitchbook.com/news/reports/q3-2024-pitchbook-nvca-venture-monitor

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/12/servicetitan-starts-trading-on-nasdaq-after-ipo.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/business/dealbook/ftc-trump-ferguson-khan.html

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/6/15/antitrust

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-05/convertible-bond-arbs-are-making-microstrategy-wall-street-s-hottest-trade

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