E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signa...

(0:00) Bestie intros: Happy Fourth of July! (0:21) Palantir-Nvidia open source deal, Alex Karp's CNBC "Crashout" (33:52) Update on the AI jobs debate (50:24) Anthropic's Fable 5 available after export restrictions lifted (59:06) SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship, striking Tru ...  Show more

(0:00) Nate Silver joins the pod! (10:02) California's ballot counting problem: Raman's late-mail surge, ballot harvesting claims, and why the US counts slower than India (25:18) Democrats' three-way civil war: The left, the abundance libs, and Newsom's "resistance lib" base (34: ...  Show more

Agenda:

00:00 – Why "Fund Returners" Are a Myth in Late-Stage VC

05:02 – Builder.ai Implodes: $500M Gone & Fraud Allegations Begin

11:40 – The Dirty Truth About Late-Stage Venture Math

15:57 – The Hi ...

Carl Quintanilla, Sara Eisen and David Faber began the show with stocks in the red as higher yields continued to bite. Sara broke down the morning’s data – ADP & Jobless Claims – ahead of a big interview with Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and the team discussed the ...

* Gold and silver shellacked. * Jobs report worse than anyone expected. * Elon Musk becomes richest man in the world. * Chamath Palihapitiya’s poorly chosen quote may be an omen for things to come. * Bitcoin bubble brings bizarre bedfellows. * Biden vows to put low-skilled worker ...  Show more

Vinny and Sunny are BACK with Jason for another roundtable! First, they cover the aftermath of the bank shutdowns (2:54) before breaking down the impact on startups and the overall economy. (14:14) They also cover Zuckerberg announcing more cuts at Meta (1:05:49) and OpenAI la ...