Jason Calacanis: The Silicon Valley Vibes Are Still Pro-Trump
6/9/20261 hr 15 min
Trump's approval rating may be near record lows, but tech tycoons and powerhouse CEOs are still all-in with bending the knee to Trump and bearing him gifts. If he turned America into an oligarchy, they'd be OK with that too. Anything to gut regulations and keep their taxes low—even if regular Americans might soon be looking for a pitchfork. Jason tries to explain the view from the tech world to the rest of us. Plus, AI job displacement, Elon's IPO grift, and a counterfactual had Kamala been president.
Jason Calacanis joins Tim Miller
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- Jason's "All-In" podcast
- Jason's company, Launch
- Get 20% off when you go to trustandwill.com /BULWARK
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Tim Miller· Host0:12
Hey, everybody. A few notes, uh, before the pod today. I taped yesterday afternoon with Jason Calacanis 'cause I'm about to hit a plane to my father's retirement party, which we're excited about. For the newbies, Jason is a little bit of a departure from our usual material, uh, here on the Bulwark podcast. Uh, he has a podcast of his own called "The All-In Podcast," and his colleagues, two of them were very active Donald Trump supporters. One of them, David Balsax, ended up going into the administration, uh, and then another one is kind of a-- was Trump curious. Jason was the most middle of the road of the crew, [lip smack] and, um, we did our first interview, God, a couple years ago now before the twenty twenty-four election, and have done a check-in every, you know, six, nine, twelve months. So, um, we did one of those check-ins today. We talked a bunch about the stuff that he really knows about, which is Silicon Valley and VC world, and then talked about what the vibe shift is looking like on Trump. It's not shifting as much as we would like. A little spoiler alert. So that's what's on this podcast. We also have the Next Level podcast, so if you're looking for just a politics fix, you can just pop on over to the Next Level feed, me, Sarah, and JVL, as we do every