Jack Altman
14 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 3, 2017 by Jack Altman · said 63 times in 20 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (42), Max Altman (5), Justin Fishner-Wolfson (3), Peter Lacaillade (2), Mark Goldberg (1), Jeffrey Wu (1), Jason Lemkin (1), Casey Winters (1)
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2026 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 18 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- 20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best Sales Reps with Kyle Norton, CRO @ Owner
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2021 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2018 14 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Jack Altman, oldest first
Nov 3, 2017 positive
Nov 3, 2017 negative
Startup Employees Get the Worst Equity Terms and Need Reforms
“I would love to see ways for employee equity to continue to get friendlier. So employees are the true absolute champions in the ecosystem of VCs, founders, and employees. They have the worst type of equity between the fact that it's options, it's common, there…”
Nov 3, 2017 negative
Raising Huge Early-Stage Rounds at Peak Valuations Harms Founders
“At the very early stage of a company, you don't need that much capital and you don't need that high of a valuation. I think it can become very tempting to raise all the money at the highest valuation when all you've got is a pitch jack. And I think in most cas…”
Nov 3, 2017 negative
Seed Investments From Multi-Stage VC Funds Carry Major Signaling Risk
“One thing we did do that has a trade-off is we took on some signaling risk by including large funds like Thrive, And Coastal and our seed round that can cause an issue down the line where if they don't end up supporting you, it makes it challenging for a new i…”
Nov 3, 2017 positive
Lattice's Pivot to Performance Reviews Sparked Initial Traction
“And then a year after starting the company is when we released our performance reviews product, and that was a really important night and day flip for us. That became something that companies really, really cared about, and it became really important, and we s…”
Nov 3, 2017
Lattice Reached Product-Market Fit With a Six-Person Team
“In our case, there was about six of us. So it was me, my co-founder, two other engineers, a marketer, and a sales rep. And the six of us were able to basically take us from not having product market fit to, you know, now in hindsight, what was the beginning of…”
Nov 3, 2017
True Product-Market Fit Manifests as Urgent Customer Demand
“What we heard once we launched a product that people really wanted was instead of sounds cool, I'll check it out. We heard people say, Hey, I need that by Monday and I need you guys to ship feature X, Y, and Z. And if you don't ship it, I'm not going to be abl…”
Nov 3, 2023
Nov 3, 2023 neutral
Jack Altman: Working over 50 hours yields diminishing returns at scale
“My experience with it was that once we got to a certain size, I found that incremental hours on Lattice were not that valuable past a certain number of reasonable hours past, let's say, 50 hours at some point. It just doesn't, more hours doesn't do you good th…”
Nov 3, 2023 positive
Nov 3, 2023 positive
Altman: Long-term employee retention outperforms squeezing extra work hours
“What I've also seen, though, is things like employee retention for long periods of time is extremely valuable. And so a company that retains employees for five years instead of one and a half on average, those employees are going to be so valuable in years thr…”
Nov 3, 2023 negative
Altman: Early founders shouldn't invest until business can run without them
“I think it does when time constraints are the dominant force. And for that reason, I think early stage founders spending real time investing is it's just too expensive. And so when, like, there are definitely things to be learned from your investing that poure…”
Nov 3, 2023 positive