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Oct 3, 2023 • 40min

All-In Summit: Alexandra Botez takes on the Besties in a 1v4 simultaneous chess match

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Alexandra Botez to All-In Summit ‘23! (1:35) Rules and ratings (5:46) Chess match (17:55) Results (21:00) Q&A with Alexandra (22:34) Conversations with fans and the creator economy (27:30) Expanding distribution (30:11) Live events (31:04) Poker (32:15) Growing up with chess (36:10) Chess scandals
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Oct 2, 2023 • 32min

All-In Summit: "Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols" with Rob Henderson

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Rob Henderson to All-In Summit ‘23! (1:45) Luxury beliefs are status symbols (3:25) Thorstein Veblen’s theory of the leisure class (6:18) Dueling (9:27) Defund the police (10:55) Torching your own social capital (11:52) The nuclear family (16:48) Q&A with the besties (18:44) Economic incentive to not get married (22:09) The Two-Parent Privilege (24:06) Cancel culture (27:57) Populist movements (29:50) Promiscuity
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Sep 28, 2023 • 11min

All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Caleb Ward to All-In Summit ‘23! (1:47) The future of film (2:30) Star Wars by Wes Anderson in 20 hours (5:55) Barbenheimer (6:48) All-In AI film presentation (9:35) Biggest technical challenges to full personalized AI film
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Sep 28, 2023 • 29min

All-In Summit: Jenny Just on Peak6, the female market correction, poker, and risk

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Jenny Just to All-In Summit ‘23! (2:20) APEX Fintech Solutions (4:48) PEAK6 returns and investment philosophy (07:36) Managing risk (09:22) The female market correction and Poker Power (14:22) Repetition of risk (18:15) Gender differences as third rail (20:40) Expected value and probability (24:17) Safe spaces, risk and loss
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Sep 26, 2023 • 32min

All-In Summit: Tobi Lutke on consumer spending, teams, Amazon, AI, and more

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke! (2:00) Consumer Spending (6:00) Teams vs family (10:36) Deliverr (12:42) Amazon (19:00) Shop Pay (22:30) Shipping features and AI (27:22) “Tobi’s Shopify”
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Sep 26, 2023 • 35min

All-In Summit: In conversation with Larry Summers

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Larry Summers to AIS! (2:14) Consumer spending, inflation, and the likelihood of a soft landing (7:24) What would Larry do as Federal Reserve Chair? (10:29) Inflation, interest rates, and political motivations (14:09) Regulation to create “frameworks in which freedom can flourish” (16:29) American resilience and self-denying prophets (20:46) Educational reform, self-esteem, and achievement (25:35) Affirmative action and legacy admissions (30:30) Free speech and academic freedom
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Sep 26, 2023 • 34min

All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Jimmy Donaldson to AIS! (2:24) Jimmy's story and elements of success (8:21) The mission (12:10) MrBeast as a new kind of studio (15:06) Beast Philanthropy (15:48) The business model (26:17) The content creator community (30:48) Audience Q&A
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Sep 26, 2023 • 28min

All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Brian Armstrong to All-In Summit ‘23! (0:27) Regulation (1:42) Crypto innovation in America (3:53) “Weaponizing the SEC” (5:49) Consumer protection vs government overreach (9:15) “Using the judicial system to beat back the administrative state” (11:07) Decentralized identity and other use cases (16:10) Accredited investor laws (17:50) Crossing the crypto chasm (21:01) User demographics and product utility (23:21) Research Hub and other interests (24:50) Pro-crypto candidates (25:24) Sam Bankman-Fried
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Sep 26, 2023 • 45min

All-In Summit: Nuclear fusion and the potential for energy abundance

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Commonwealth Fusion Energy CEO Robert Mumgaard and Helion Energy CEO David Kirtley to All-In Summit ‘23! (2:20) Robert Mumgaard presentation: Commonwealth Fusion Systems (13:00) David Kirtley presentation: Helion Energy (22:31) Bestie Q&A: Price per kilowatt hour at scale (24:55) A Tesla-Edison rivalry? (27:38) Does fusion’s potential minimize global warming fears? (30:03) Would government investment accelerate fusion scaleup? (34:58) Rate-limiting technical challenges (38:51) Political and social acceptance
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Sep 26, 2023 • 31min

All-In Summit: Gene therapy and a new era of medicine with Dr. Nicole Paulk

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles. (0:00) Besties welcome Dr. Nicole Paulk to All-In Summit ‘23! (0:59) An introduction to Gene Therapy (2:18) Three eras of modern medicine (4:49) Living medicines (6:35) Congenital blindness and other rare diseases (9:37) Gene therapy applications for broad use, including cancer (12:00) Immunosurveillance and immunotherapy (14:44) Brain cancer test (16:34) DEC2 mutation to reduce the need for sleep (17:45) Gene therapy for people living on Mars (18:40) Bestie Q&A: FDA hurdles and aging as a disease state (21:16) Biotech’s valley of death (23:52) Night vision and other human enhancements (26:32) Fundraising

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