[ The Podcast ]
About.
The All-In Podcast delivers conversations worth having. Hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, the show features insider takes on business, technology, and society and interviews with the world's most influential thinkers.
[ Latest Episode ]
Daniel Ek: Life After Spotify, Broken Healthcare Incentives, Catching Disease Early & AI's Potential
The episode opens with Daniel Ek’s Spotify origin story, from music piracy and tense label negotiations to the company’s U.S. launch and early scaling. The conversation then shifts to his move into healthcare and the founding of NECO, with a focus on chronic disease, prevention, and using smartphones, sensors, and AI for predictive care. They dig into NECO’s end-to-end checkups, early results, dermatology use cases, wearables, and the challenge of funding preventive care in the U.S. The back half covers AI’s impact on healthcare and music, open source and compute, Spotify’s podcasting strategy, and lessons from Ek’s early startup years in Sweden.
[ 9/25/2026 ]
The episode opens with All-In Summit highlights, a surprise Trump call, and early sponsor chatter before turning to AI panic and the question of whether AI firms should be treated like ordinary corporations with real liability and governance. The group debates free-market competition, cybersecurity, rapid model releases, open-weight proliferation, and the shrinking moat around AI products. They also cover pricing pressure, IPO challenges, Anthropic’s safety messaging, open-source and Chinese competition, enterprise hedging, and regulatory risk. The back half moves to political reactions from Sanders, Trump, and Obama, plus AI agents, app store disruption, Amazon’s response, privacy concerns, alignment, data center bottlenecks, and Anthropic’s research labs.
[ 9/11/2026 ]
The episode opens with controversy around Anthropic, including a researcher resignation, political backlash, and criticism of the company’s internal contradictions. The discussion moves through media coverage, a canceled podcast appearance, IPO and SEC disclosure risks, and the legal complications facing AI firms. From there, the group digs into AI doomerism, regulatory motives, recursive self-improvement, open source models, and decentralization risks. They then cover an OpenAI math breakthrough, data leakage, enterprise trust, and the case for on-prem AI under privacy laws. The episode closes with Nike’s brand troubles, lessons on excellence, and All-In name history plus Summit updates.
[ 9/4/2026 ]
The episode opens with a birthday celebration, a presidential letter, and fresh ChatGPT/AGI chatter before moving into the race between OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, and Gemini. The group weighs soaring startup valuations, Instinct’s rise, and dot-com bubble parallels, then shifts to founder advice on selling shares, raising capital, and timing. They cover San Francisco real estate, the All-In Summit, and an OpenAI/Hugging Face security incident involving exposed keys and agentic code. The discussion turns to AI regulation, cyber defense, media hype, open vs. closed models, data centers, school bans, AI tutoring, and Venezuela oil politics.