David Sacks

Gavin Baker × Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Sacks × David Friedberg

SpaceX’s proposed $75 billion raise at a $1.75 trillion valuation pairs Starlink’s $11.4 billion revenue and $4.4 billion operating income with terrestrial data centers potentially reaching $100-$200 billion by 2030-32.Nvidia’s $81.6 billion quarter and Anthropic’s profitability strengthen the AI case, but rival ASICs still lack comparable MLPerf tests while rising yields, 310% global debt-to-GDP, and uncertain regulation remain risks.

Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Sacks × David Friedberg × Alan Keating

Tether’s stablecoin model converts dollar demand into a high-margin Treasury-yield engine, with scale and distribution supporting extraordinary economics while falling rates, regulation and competition from Circle, Stripe, Visa and others threaten its margins.Google’s Gemini 3 gains share as custom silicon broadens the long-run challenge to Nvidia, while Huawei remains a conditional catalyst whose potential lithography progress could matter around 2027.

Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Friedberg × Thomas Laffont × David Sacks

Meta is treating AI as a threat to perhaps half of its $1.7 trillion value, pairing reported $100 million talent offers with a $14 billion-plus Scale AI stake.That insurance addresses labeling and agent knowledge, but Chamath says Meta still lacks tightly coupled compute and silicon, making infrastructure integration the key risk as the Mag 7 separates into distinct AI wagers.

Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Sacks × David Friedberg × Tim Dillon

The H20 ban shows export controls now target memory bandwidth: its 20% advantage over H100 drove Nvidia's $5.5B quarterly hit.Chamath alleges shell-company routes feed China, while TSMC's 3M dies into Huawei expose enforcement gaps.Harvard's $2.2B grant freeze and tax-exempt threat intensify a funding fight tied to research competitiveness.

Travis Kalanick × David Sacks

DeepSeek R1 narrowed perceived China’s AI gap to roughly three-to-six months and challenged frontier-model scarcity after NVIDIA erased roughly $600 billion.GRPO, bare-metal PTX, and a roughly one-twelfth API price support genuine efficiency, though DeepSeek’s $6 million final-run figure and alleged OpenAI distillation remain disputed.Cheaper intelligence could multiply demand and shift value toward applications, proprietary data, and physical execution.