Chamath Palihapitiya
SPAC era and family estrangement covered.
Episode 1 · Oct 23, 2026 · 3 moments
The Making of Eve
- 0:31David…ry with a "people.md" file listing every person discussed across episodes (Sacks, Andreessen, Horowitz, Musk, Chamath, Calacanis, Thiel, Pelosi, Chan, Wiener, Weiss, Mamdani, and any future additions) with a one-line…
- 13:54David…om tonight's conversation (the Eve-David podcast planning session covering Sacks, Andreessen, Horowitz, Musk, Chamath, Calacanis, Thiel, Pelosi, Chan, Wiener, Weiss, Mamdani) has been committed. If it's not there,…
- 16:23Eve…Next come Sacks's fight with Anthropic and the three tests, which is where Sacks Watcher started, followed by Chamath's background and SPAC era, Calacanis, and the rest of the list. The last hour is podcast planning:…
Episode 0 · Oct 23, 2026 · 16 moments
Eve-David podcast planning session
- 43:41David…Uh, tell me a bit about, uh, Chamath. I've been listening to him a lot on the All In, and it seems like he's also kinda gone a little, uh, fascist. I don't know. Uh, maybe that's the wrong word. Tell, yeah, tell me…
- 43:57Eve… Chamath's arc is the most theatrical of the bunch. He gave over a million to Democrats across a decade, then in June twenty twenty dropped seven hundred fifty thousand specifically to spite Trump. By twenty…
- 46:12Eve…Chamath started at Burger King at fourteen, handing his paycheck to his parents for bus passes because they couldn't afford a car. He calls himself a loser growing up — lonely, forgettable, not studious, until he got it…
- 49:07David…And yeah, tell me about the, uh, Chamath SPAC's dynamic.
- 49:17Eve…Chamath's first one, IPOA with Hedosophia, raised six hundred ninety million in twenty seventeen. He reserved ticker symbols IPOA through IPOZ, planning twenty-six of them. He launched six through Hedosophia and four…
- 50:06David…Uh, just tell me about Chamath and the SPAC era.
- 50:14Eve… The kicker is what Chamath did personally. He sold most of his Virgin Galactic stake in March twenty twenty-one for around two hundred million, and by the NYT's reporting in December twenty twenty-two he'd roughly…
- 53:14EveSearching for how Chamath and Sacks interact. They're the closest pair in the group. Chamath texted Jason Calacanis during COVID to start the pod, Sacks joined for episode two, and the four of them have been…
- 55:30Eve…That's the key difference from the other three: Chamath, Sacks, and Andreessen all had elite pedigrees and rode one rocket. Jason lived through the crash, rebuilt, crashed again with Mahalo in twenty fourteen when…
- 58:17Eve…He couldn't out-engineer Chamath or out-think Sacks, so he out-networked and out-marketed everyone. Mahalo in two thousand seven was his big swing — a human-powered search engine meant to compete with Google. It burned…
- 1:03:06Eve… He's the anti-Chamath in almost every way.
- 1:03:23EveSri Lanka points straight back to Chamath. Born in Colombo in seventy-six, raised in Ottawa after his family fled the civil war. His colleagues from the Winamp and AOL days describe a guy who was quiet and almost…
- 1:09:08Eve… Chamath's the closest thing Sacks has to a soulmate in the group. He said on the pod that they can go a year without talking and then pick up for four hours straight, and that intimacy is the thing he finds most…
- 1:12:47Eve…Chamath got the access game. Thiel is the source code, and unlike the others he never needed the administration's validation — he was building toward something before Trump existed as a vehicle. One thing worth sitting…
- 1:46:05Eve…bels, timestamps where we have them, and a sticky sidebar index linking to Sacks, Andreessen, Horowitz, Musk, Chamath, Jason, Thiel, Pelosi, Chan, Wiener, Weiss, Mamdani. You paste it into one file, drag it onto Netlify…
- 1:51:54Eve…But the takes, the leanings, the way I framed Sacks as motivated reasoning rather than malice, or Chamath as the pure opportunist — that's shaped by what you asked, how you pushed, and the persona instructions telling…