All-In

Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Sacks × David Friedberg

Demis Hassabis’s FINRA-style SRO emerged as the least-bad AI oversight option, but startup and open-source representation, catastrophic-risk limits, voluntary proof and preemption remain essential.A reported $53 billion Stripe-led PayPal bid could combine 439 million consumer accounts with Stripe’s merchants, Braintree, Venmo, Cash App and stablecoin infrastructure to challenge Visa and Mastercard.Electricity is the binding constraint: a 7-8 GW PGM auction drew roughly 156 MW, while New York’s moratorium makes energizable sites scarcer and deployment a catalyst to monitor.

Brad Gerstner × Gavin Baker × Kelly Rodriques × Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Sacks × David Friedberg

Private-company secondaries have become a third exit market, with 2025 volume roughly twice the 2021 peak and activity equal to 31% of primary venture activity.Forge’s Schwab partnership could distribute private equity to millions of investors through regulated products, while longer private lifecycles, double-fee SPVs and valuation compression make governance, pricing and liquidity worth monitoring.

Bill Ackman

Ackman now prioritizes long-term, durable, protected, non-disruptable growth as AI makes disruption the first underwriting question.He sees Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon as undervalued amid enthusiasm for chips and energy, while SaaS requires company-by-company analysis of pricing power and platform value.Howard Hughes is his 50-year compounding project, combining below-liquidation-value real estate with insurance float and a potential path toward “a trillion-dollar thing over time.”

Adena Friedman

Nasdaq is expanding from an exchange into market infrastructure, serving technology to 17 markets and 135 others while its index business supports roughly $700 billion in assets tied to major innovators.Tokenized equities will enter the core market, with 24/5 trading ahead of possible 24/7 access; regulatory clarity, public-market reform, private-share control, and leverage outside banks remain the catalysts and risks.

Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Sacks × David Friedberg

“AI psychosis” may scale an older loneliness crisis by replacing fragile social ties with infinitely responsive synthetic companions, while marathon chats can reinforce errors through feedback loops and “context poisoning.”Falling marriage and homeownership among 30-year-olds, student debt and housing inflation create a connected social and balance-sheet problem, making education reform, housing supply and D.C.’s crime intervention important tests of policy execution.