All-In Podcast -- Rank the 4 Besties

How would you rank the 4 besties on the all-in pod in terms of 1) quality of analysis & genuine insight (not boilerplate) and 2) relative accuracy of that analysis / insights if we look back on it? 

I think I'd put Freidberg as #1 / Sacks as #2 / Chamath as #3 / Jason as #4. Maybe Chamath and Sacks are tied since they have a lot of blind spots (though they are also the ones with the most contrarian takes vs. Jason who says the most generic stuff). Friedberg is consistently good with his analysis 

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I only just started watching them, but Friedberg seems level headed, prescient and a total cutie-patootie. Sacks seems blinded by his politics and Chamath has an asshole streak. Jason seems to me to be neutral.

That being said I have watched less than 10 hours of content, but looking forward to future shows

 
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Top 3 of the podcasts I follow and IMO one of the best tech/investing podcasts out there bar none, been listening to them since 2021.

Tie for first between Friedberg and Sacks - actual operators with amazing track records, level-headed, rationale to T, Friedberg is particularly insightful for big picture discussions/thinking about large scale political trends whereas Sacks leans a bit too hard into defending the current admin on some points IMO (understandable considering his position so don't fault him for it, but Friedberg just gives better objective analysis on those topics) 

Chamath - clearly very intelligent and wonderful insight into software/AI (could listen to him for hours on the nitty gritty of the operating side) but does tend to trend follow/hype some things up to unreasonable extremes (SPAC King after all), really enjoy when he takes the contrarian position and seeing how he lays out the opposite side of the argument before explaining how his counter makes more sense

Jason - the most humanitarian of the group which I appreciate, makes the podcast feel more approachable for non-technical folks despite being an amazing tech investor in his own right, like that he provides a counter-weight to Sacks but he does get unreasonably ideological over silly things at times, kind of whiny but I think he plays that up for the foil dynamic with Sacks, a much needed lightning rod for catching shade from the other 3 during certain debates, great closer on discussions

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 
  1. Friedberg: wholesome chungus science nerd
  2. Sacks: some decent stuff from him but spends way too much time and gets too many ideas from the X hivemind
  3. Scamath: terribly insecure huckster who talks nothing but his books and 'edgy' SV ideas from 3 years ago
  4. Jason: turbo lib moron who believes in nothing

Started listening when they started the show during COVID. My advice to young WSO'ers - turn off business podcasts for the most part. People are just trying to sell you something or are selling their brand. It's all bullshit.

 

I'm seeing a lot of hate for Jason ("turbo lib moron who believes in nothing", "whiny", and ranked 4th in almost every comment), but you have to admit he is almost guaranteed to have the most laugh out loud moments every podcast. Also, as much as he is very biased politically (as mentioned above), isn't it refreshing how he admits when his side is wrong? I feel like that is very rare in this hyper-political time we live in. 

There is more than one way to get there. I'd rather have 30 chapters than 3000 pages.
 

No you're right, but it's not "hate". I said I think he plays up the whiny liberal stuff because it triggers Sacks who's one of his best friends + the podcast NEEDS the foil since Sacks is obv right wing, Chamath is more right-leaning, and Friedberg presents himself as more politically neutral. He's a refreshing alternative voice with a great laugh & attitude + he moderates the rest of them so it doesn't devolve into technical gobbledygook and become unenjoyable for the laymen.  

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

He's gotten better at admitting he was wrong. That said, he always has the most generic possible takes (pretty much at the level of the average senior in high school which is disappointing to see in All-In)

He just gets really whiny too around stupid positions like around AI paying journalists. Yes Jason, let's go ahead and cripple our AI industry and let China win -- he has 0 response for this. He also doesn't recognize the MSM's biases

 

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