Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? — With Saagar Enjeti

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Saagar Enjeti is the co-host of Breaking Points. He joins Big Technology podcast to asses whether the Big Tech CEOs will win their Trump bet, assessing the stakes involved, the positioning, and the likely outcomes. We talk about Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, and, of course, Elon Musk. Stay tuned as we discuss how the U.S. and China will handle the AI battle, especially after DeepSeek. And we end with a fun back and forth on Apple Intelligence and The Vision Pro, of which Enjeti was an early buyer. Hit play for a fun, thought provoking discussion on tech's high stakes gamble.

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0:00.0	Let's check in on Silicon Valley's Trump embrace, the U.S.-China AI War, Apple products,
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1:01.5	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool edit, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
1:07.1	We are joined today once again by Sagar and Jetty.
1:09.6	He's the co-host of Breaking Points, which you can find in your podcast app of choice or on YouTube, highly recommend it.
1:16.0	I've been looking forward to this conversation for a while.
1:18.0	We're going to talk all about how the tech CEO's Trump bet is going to pay off, or maybe it won't. talk about US and China fighting over AI and then a bunch of other issues that Sagar and I have been texting back and forth on including how bad Apple intelligence is.
1:32.3	So Sagar, great to see you. Welcome to the show.
1:34.3	Good to see you, man. Thanks for having me. It's good to be back.
1:37.3	Great to have you back. All right. Let's start with the tech CEOs and Trump. We saw them all at the inauguration sitting like peas in a pod, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Sundar,
1:47.1	Elon, all together. And then I listened to your reaction right afterwards on the Realignment
1:53.2	podcast, which is another great show that I recommend. And I was sort of surprised to hear you talk
1:58.9	about how this might not be the wisest bet for them
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