david friedberg

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Very amazing email to get:

“Hi JCal, Chamath,

55 days ago you two had a 4 minute conversation about EAs and Athena.

Since then we have:
closed $29M in new revenue 🤯
seen a -53% decrease in blended CaC, placed 683 Athena executive partners ❤️  683 new jobs!!”

If you are looking for an EA, try Athena - they are excellent, only cost $3k/mo and you are helping some amazing people around the world upgrade their quality of life.

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[david friedberg @friedberg]

in conversation with @spencerpratt …

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

🚨 BIG INTERVIEW: SPENCER PRATT JOINS ALL-IN

David Friedberg sits down with Spencer Pratt to discuss his fight to save Los Angeles.

(0:00) Spencer Pratt vs. the Machine

(3:01) Inside the Palisades Fire: Drained Reservoirs, No Sirens & Watching His House Burn on His Phone

(14:03) Why He's Running for Mayor: FireAid's $100M Scandal & the NGO Corruption Nobody Talks About

(28:10) Karen Bass at 20% & the Real State of LA: Crime, Homelessness & a City in Free Fall

(38:23) Spencer's Plan to Fix LA: Enforcing Laws, Auditing Everyone & the Billionaires Ready to Rebuild

(52:22) Hollywood, LAUSD & Small Business: What It Actually Takes to Make LA #1 Again

(56:25) The Permitting Nightmare Killing Small Business & How AI Fixes It Overnight

(1:04:22) His 8-Year Vision

@friedberg @spencerpratt

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[david friedberg @friedberg]

long form with @ChrisWillx …

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

What will the future actually look like?
@friedberg and I sat down to discuss.

0:00 Why we fear the future
0:39 The fertilizer crisis solved
2:01 Life is getting better
4:04 East vs. West mindset
6:20 AI centralizes power differently
7:08 Technology always diffuses outward
9:30 CAR-T therapy case study
11:31 Token costs falling 1000x
12:25 The moon explained
13:50 Everyone owning a robot
16:11 Which jobs AI hits first
17:47 Who buys the robots?
19:20 TikTok proves latent entrepreneurship
21:30 Moon as staging ground
23:54 The 9km rail gun
25:46 Self-replicating robots on Mars
27:06 Fusion energy explained
29:04 How the sun works
32:13 AI cracking plasma stability
37:20 Who owns the moon?
44:33 How far is age reversal?
48:38 Yamanaka factors discovered
54:11 Longevity escape velocity
56:15 Careers in a 120-year life
1:00:07 Transhumanism and brain interfaces
1:05:05 Embryo selection and CRISPR
1:10:53 Making X-Men: transgenic humans
1:26:30 David's seed company explained
1:36:25 California's collapse
1:40:47 Unfunded pension crisis
1:41:08 The billionaire tax threat
1:42:59 Origin of the income tax
1:46:17 Wealth tax kills property rights
1:52:29 Why people vote socialist
1:54:43 Government vs. free market prices
2:02:38 The food stamp explosion
2:05:23 AOC as 2028 frontrunner
2:07:02 Tomorrowland's optimism shift

Includes paid partnerships.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

@Jason your best tweet ever

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Unstoppable. New episode now live with @friedberg

[david friedberg @friedberg]

@anondeguerre thanks for sharing. is there anything published on this i can read?

[david friedberg @friedberg]

at @ohalo, we got the nuts ..

[Ohalo @ohalo]

Last week, we completed the first harvest of Ohalo's Fruition One almond trees with our partner Sierra Gold Nurseries.

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Below is Sierra Gold's CEO, Reid Robinson, sharing a video of the result. Contact Sierra Gold to place your order today.

As the poker saying goes - looks like we got the nuts!

[david friedberg @friedberg]

@LukeMcD16529556 @theallinpod i’m against all taxes if the tax capital flows through some inefficient kleptocratic government

[Suffiyan Malik @suffiyanmalikk]

Special Episode of We The Builders from @HillValleyForum 2026: Conversation with David Friedberg (@friedberg) on rise and fall of empires, the state of US economy, robots as an economic platform, what has changed since the Winning AI Race Summit featuring President Trump, reindustrialization, the end of institutional education and of course the California bankruptcy.

Timestamps:

01:21 - Shifting landscape between Silicon Valley and DC
02:51 - AI has become a political attack vector
04:46 - Late-stage empires and the impact of national debt
07:03 - Potential for AI to rewrite the story of US economy
08:26 - AI’s recent performance and productivity gains
10:03 - Bullish outlook on humanoid robots
11:16 - Robots as a platform for economic mobility
13:41 - Reindustrialization and energy production challenges
15:15 - The “functionally bankrupt” status of California
16:50 - The declining value of institutional education
18:46 - Personalized AI-driven tutoring as the future
20:01 - Emerging private sector models for education

[david friedberg @friedberg]

it’s not political and should
not be partisan to ask “where did all the money go?”
California’s functional bankruptcy threatens the nation and should be a front-and-center state and national discussion.
ignore the bs. this is what matters.

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

BREAKING: David @friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt"

"People don't realize how screwed California is, & I worry that if California falls, so does the union.

"$250 billion to $1 trillion short."

"This is because for California to get rescued would be a big cost to red states, & I think it creates in the years ahead a lot of tension."

"California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country. & I think we need to figure out what we can change to fix it."

How we got here:
"California has a public pension system, & that public pension system retirees have paid into it & they get some benefits out, & the amount that they're owed back out is somewhere between $250 billion - $1 trillion dollars more than has been paid in.

$250 billion to $1 trillion short.

If it was the federal government, it would be like, okay, we'll just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits.

There is a Supreme Court case in California that said that once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits.

It has to stay forever, and the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it. No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California.

So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services."

Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum)

[david friedberg @friedberg]

@dallin_stagg we spend a bunch of money on camera crew and editing and travel etc. so we decided to do ads only on some interview shows to cover costs. and we try to make sure they’re minimally invasive.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

crazy/interesting/fun chat w Bryan...

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

🚨INTERVIEW: Bryan Johnson just took the world's biggest dose of psychedelics... here are his reactions 48 hours later.

@friedberg sits down with @bryan_johnson

(0:00) Friedberg intros Bryan Johnson

(0:54) Why Bryan Johnson did 5-MeO-DMT

(12:56) What brain scans actually show

(18:36) Psychosis, bad trips, and life-altering decisions

(26:23) The next frontier: organoids and gene therapy

(33:26) GLP-1s, abundance, and human optimization

(35:35) The longevity drug nobody's talking about?

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[Aaron Levie @levie]

Jevons paradox is happening in real time. Companies, especially outside of tech, are realizing that they can now afford to take on software projects that they wouldn’t have been able to tackle before because now AI lets them do so.

We’re going to start to use software for all new things in the economy because it’s incrementally cheaper to produce. Marketing teams at big companies will have engineers helping to automate workflows. Engineers in life sciences and healthcare will automate research. Small businesses will hire engineers for the first to build better digital experiences.

And as long as AI agents still require a human who understands what to prompt, how to review when an agent goes off the rails, how it guide back, how to maintain the system that was built, how to fix the ongoing bugs, and more, we will still have humans managing these agents.

This is why all the advice you get of not going into engineering is wrong. The world is going to increasingly be made up of software, and the people that understand it best will be in a strong economic position. This will happen in other roles as well where output goes up and demand increases.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

@ernopp it’s a formal affair. i am wearing a tie too

[david friedberg @friedberg]

Since the first Presidential scientific advisory board, established by FDR in 1933, Presidential science and technology councils have supported policies that advanced research goals, enabled breakthrough scientific discoveries, drove the development of new technologies, and unleashed the industrialization of those technologies to advance American prosperity and global scientific and technological leadership.

Appreciative of PCAST Chairs @MichaelKratsios and @davidsacks47 for their leadership and honored to serve as an advisor on PCAST.

[White House OSTP 47 @WHOSTP47]

https://t.co/G7Id0q27RU

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California 🚨

San Jose Mayor and California Gov Candidate @MattMahanSJ joins @friedberg to talk:

-- State of California

-- Impact of public sector unions in CA politics

-- Pension time bomb

-- CA housing, energy crises

(0:00) Matt Mahan: Why He's Running for Governor

(1:51) How California Went From Bad to Worse

(12:05) Public Sector Unions & Lobbying in Sacramento

(19:05) California's Housing Crisis: Regulation & Fees

(34:52) California Energy Crisis: Gas Taxes & Green Policy

(43:57) The $1 Trillion Pension Time Bomb

(1:02:37) Trump, Tariffs & the Rise of Dangerous Populism

(1:09:14) Immigration Reform: ICE & the Path to Legal Status

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

🚨 Interview!: Friedberg sits down with Sen. John Fetterman

-- The broken Democratic Party

-- SAVE Act moves through Senate, election fraud

-- Iran exit strategy, NATO allies bail

-- Israel's influence, AIPAC, growing anti-Israel sentiment

-- National wealth tax, anti-AI sentiment

-- Government fraud, debt spiral

(0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Senator John Fetterman; SAVE Act thoughts

(1:08) The broken Democratic Party: TDS, what he stands for, why the party changed, losing bipartisanship, popularity with Republicans

(11:42) Iran exit strategy, NATO allies bail on the US

(17:42) Israel's influence, AIPAC, growing anti-Israel sentiment

(20:16) SAVE Act, why he supports voter ID but not this bill, election fraud

(26:41) Government shutdown, red lines with ICE and immigration, birthright citizenship, why Biden opened the border

(32:49) Debt death spiral, government fraud

(37:38) Why he's still a Democrat, national wealth tax, anti-AI sentiment, state of agriculture

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Fun conversation with @Jason and @friedberg on why Austin and Texas have been a great place to grow @delltech into a $113.5B company, the accelerating demand for AI infrastructure. Plus @altcap on what @InvestAmerica24 @TrumpAccounts means for the next generation. Thanks for having me on @theallinpod
https://t.co/A5xs79Ye3c

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

California Democrat breaks ranks with his own party and exposes the “sad truth” about the proposed “wealth tax” on billionaires.

“This may be the message people need to hear…”

“I don’t think it will be the billionaires and the wealthiest who pay this tax.”

“What that means is as wealthier individuals, people who own companies leave the state, it will be the MIDDLE CLASS WHO ARE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG and asked to pay more to cover the existing services and infrastructure maintenance that the state needs.”

— San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan

[david friedberg @friedberg]

thanks @RayDalio for the conversation - DOGE’s failure, gold’s rise, tariffs, and what’s ahead for the US…

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

ALL-IN INTERVIEW 🚨

Ray Dalio joins David Friedberg for another classic 🔥

-- The cycle that destroyed Rome
-- Why DOGE failed
-- Gold vs. Bitcoin
-- What economists got wrong about tariffs
-- The forces that will decide America's future

(0:00) Friedberg Introduces Ray Dalio

(1:29) Five Forces That Will Decide America’s Future

(7:26) Why Government Reform Is Nearly Impossible

(11:19) Gold vs. Bitcoin

(28:16) What Economists Got Wrong About Tariffs

(41:11) Is America Heading For Collapse?

@RayDalio @friedberg