🚨David Sacks on pre-product AI startups turning down billion-dollar acquisition offers: “There's a lot of people who've never been through a bust cycle before. And if they think that this is the normal state of the world, they're going to be sorely mistaken.” Sacks: “You are seeing founders turning down multi-billion dollar acquisition offers for startups that haven’t even released a product yet.” “As if those types of offers grow on trees. And they don't.” Jason: “You think Mira should have taken the billion dollar offer from Zuck, or Ilya should have taken the $30B, Sacks? I mean, these things never happen.” Sacks: “I guess it depends how much they have in the bank account. They're both OpenAI co-founders, so…” Chamath: “They probably sold a bunch of OpenAI equity at $300B and $500B. They seem like they're free rolling, so they have no incentive to sell.” Sacks: “Which is fine, it's just that there's a lot of people who've never been through a bust cycle before.” “And if they think that this is the normal state of the world, they're going to be sorely mistaken.” “Right now, we're in a part of the cycle where you can justify that valuation based on its strategic value to a multi-trillion dollar market cap company.” “But that only lasts while those companies are in the market for strategic acceleration.” “And if you turn that down, then you have to make your company work on its own as an actual business.” “And to get to a $30B valuation based on fundamentals, that is extraordinarily difficult.” “That implies multiple billions of revenue. Actual revenue.”

The All-In Interview is BACK!🚨 Sacks and Jason sit down with Senator Eric Schmitt to discuss the biggest censorship scandal in US history... and much more! This one is spicy🌶️ (0:00) Sacks and Jason welcome Senator Eric Schmitt (2:34) Biden v. Missouri, uncovering government censorship as Missouri AG (6:06) Section 230 and social media, the legacy of Russiagate, big tech censorship in the age of AI (18:44) Behind the Hunter Biden laptop story and COVID censorship (30:17) The NGO "Leviathan" and how censorship requests were laundered, Hamilton 68 (36:38) Russiagate and the Obama intel report on the 2016 Election (47:15) Russia-Ukraine War, possible peace deal, and US foreign policy @Jason @DavidSacks @Eric_Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt

🚨 All-In Summit Speaker Announcement: Anatoly Yakovenko -- Co-Founder and CEO, Solana Labs -- ~$100B market cap for $SOL Anatoly will join the Besties on stage at the 2025 All-In Summit! Tickets: 2024 Recap: