{"slug": "who-would-win-a-game-of-mafia-between-sam-altman-palmer-luckey-bryan-johnson-and", "title": "Who would win a game of 'Mafia' between Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson, and other 'tech legends'? Now we know.", "summary": "Founders Fund launched a new YouTube and X show Thursday featuring 12 Silicon Valley figures, including Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and Bryan Johnson, playing the deception game Mafia at San Francisco's Tosca Cafe. The 33-minute first episode, filmed at the site of the famous 2007 PayPal Mafia photo, pits the tech leaders against each other in a murder-mystery game of trust and betrayal. The show marks the latest example of the tech industry expanding into media ventures, with two additional episodes scheduled for release over the following weeks.", "body_md": "Twelve \"tech legends\" walk into a bar and start getting picked off one** **by** **one — who would you trust to suss out the killer?\n\nYou can get a glimpse into that scenario thanks to a new show that gathered a group of Silicon Valley elite — including OpenAI founder [Sam Altman](https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman), Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, and biohacker Bryan Johnson — to play Mafia, a murder-mystery game of deception.\n\nThe show, which launched Thursday on YouTube and X, is from [Founders Fund](https://youtu.be/EDCwQe7P8T0?si=35Q9H3dzN2QX0qwH), the San Francisco-based venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel.\n\nFor viewers unfamiliar with Mafia, the purpose of the game is \"to deceive and to detect deception,\" the show explains, adding, \"For years, everyone in Silicon Valley has played.\"\n\nThe game involves each player being randomly assigned a role, one of which is mafia. The mafia's goal is to kill off the rest of the players, while everyone else is trying to identify and kill off the mafia.\n\nThe first episode was filmed at Tosca Cafe, an iconic San Francisco bar and restaurant that served as the location of the famous [PayPal Mafia](https://www.businessinsider.com/paypal-mafia-members-elon-musk-peter-thiel-reid-hoffman-companies) photo published in [Fortune](https://fortune.com/article/paypal-mafia/) in 2007.\n\nThe group of 12 players included: Altman; Luckey; Johnson; biohacker Josie Zayner; Wait But Why writer Tim Urban; professional poker player Liv Boeree; AI policy expert Ryan Beiermeister; Figma founder Dylan Field; Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike; angel investor Cyan Banister; Flexport founder Ryan Petersen; and Founders Fund partner Trae Stephens.\n\nWe won't give any spoilers, but the game played out over a 33-minute episode in which accusations were thrown left and right.\n\nLuckey was quick to make jokes during the game, which made him a target to some. Some players joked about how others' real-world jobs could influence their role in the game.\n\n\"Whatever Bryan says we should go with because he can't die,\" Stephens said of Johnson, who founded the app [Don't Die](https://www.businessinsider.com/longevity-hacks-bryan-johnson-health-tips-2026-5) and is famous for his quest to conquer aging.\n\nThere were also some accusations thrown around between Altman and Beiermeister, who, according to [The Wall Street Journal,](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-executive-who-opposed-adult-mode-fired-for-sexual-discrimination-3159c61b?) was fired from OpenAI in January.\n\nMike Solana, the CMO of Founders Fund and host of the game, said in an X post that the next two episodes of the show will be released on Thursdays over the next couple of weeks.\n\nThe show is the latest example of Silicon Valley embracing new media ventures, with one of the most prominent being OpenAI's acquisition of the [tech talk show TBPN](https://www.businessinsider.com/why-openai-bought-tbpn-2026-4).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-would-win-a-game-of-mafia-between-sam-altman-palmer-luckey-bryan-johnson-and", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-palmer-luckey-bryan-johnson-tech-play-mafia-show-2026-6", "published_at": "2026-06-04 23:15:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-04 23:45:20.207375+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-startups"], "entities": ["Sam Altman", "Palmer Luckey", "Bryan Johnson", "Founders Fund", "Peter Thiel", "Tosca Cafe", "PayPal Mafia", "Fortune"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-would-win-a-game-of-mafia-between-sam-altman-palmer-luckey-bryan-johnson-and", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-would-win-a-game-of-mafia-between-sam-altman-palmer-luckey-bryan-johnson-and.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-would-win-a-game-of-mafia-between-sam-altman-palmer-luckey-bryan-johnson-and.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-would-win-a-game-of-mafia-between-sam-altman-palmer-luckey-bryan-johnson-and.jsonld"}}