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Who spends $7,500 to attend a two-day live event hosted by Silicon Valley's favorite podcasters? Zoë Bernard went to the All-In Summit recently to find out. While her resulting story is definitely worth reading in full, the short answer is: people looking for money. Not only is the founder dream alive and well—it's taken on near-apocalyptic terms: "The West was dying; it was actually killing itself. Still, it could be saved. The people here, in fact, would save it," Bernard writes, summing up the messaging presented to attendees from its host of high-profile headliners. "This is not an audience committing suicide," as Palantir CEO Alex Karp said from the main stage. "This is an audience fighting to win."
Elsewhere today: Dan Adler explains the very dark, very online D4vd saga; Rebecca Ford interviews Sean Penn on the eve of One Battle After Another's release; and Bess Levin has a bettor's guide to the Trump administration's TikTok deal. More tomorrow… |
The All-In Summit is the real-life extension of Silicon Valley's most popular podcast, All-In, overseen by the podcast's hosts, who are known more simply as "the Besties." The Besties do many things very well, including making vaguely uncool people—money managers and corporate shills—feel not only cool but like cultural necessities. Now in its fourth year, the summit is a clubby, real-world extension of the pod itself.
VF's Zoë Bernard goes inside the fever-dream capitalist bacchanal where the faithful can stop being "guilt-tripped by this woke mind virus" and get into "founder mode." |
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In conversation with VF, the two-time Oscar winner talks about playing a ruthless white supremacist in Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie, the killing of Charlie Kirk, and the directorial project he's brewing up with Tom Hardy. |
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The details surrounding Los Angeles musician D4vd and a 15-year-old girl found dead in a vehicle registered to him have prompted a combustible mixture of online speculation and criminal intrigue. VF's Dan Adler reports on the story that has the internet talking. |
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