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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 20:13 Matteo Franceschetti I was listening to an interview to Sam Allman recently, and he was saying that in the early days, to pay for one hour of electricity at night, you had to work five hours, just to give you a sense of how expensive electricity was in the…
- ▶ 26:45 Harry Stebbings Did you see the paper last night, or essay or post last night from someone at OpenAI, Sam promoted it, that basically said, we actually need to put a slight pause on this.
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 11:20 Harry Stebbings And I think Rory, you said that AGI will be declared by when Satya and Sam agree that AGI is here.
- ▶ 30:41 Harry Stebbings Sam retweeted it, clearly corroborating it.
- ▶ 32:44 Jason Lemkin Look, I think if the world was just the United States, it may have some merit, but the Chinese models and the Chinese vendors aren't going along with Sam's plan.
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings We then move to Sam Altman as they cut off
- ▶ 10:44 Harry Stebbings Next topic is, um, good old Sam and Elon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:38 Jason Lemkin And I think Sam Altman said the same thing in open, open AI hugging faces.
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
- ▶ 19:02 Eno Reyes Yeah, I mean, you know, there's gonna be a lot of, uh, of change if some people think that there's gonna be one company, and I think Sam Altman just did an interview where, yeah, and kudos to him, it's hard to go back and say I was wrong. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:19 Eno Reyes Uh, and I think that this is actually pretty aligned with how maybe the, that percentage is overweighted, but like how you listen to how Sam and Dario talk, the use cases that they're talking about their frontier models being used for are…
- ▶ 54:26 Harry Stebbings Sam knows that fully.
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 36:42 Jason Lemkin Um, I think Sam is a much more approachable CEO now. 3 times in the scene
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 49:16 Harry Stebbings Sam was like, hey, administration, take five percent of frontier models. 3 times in the scene
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 1:22 Harry Stebbings Open AI startup fund is a mega winner, uh, who invested six to eight million dollars very early, which Rory, I thought of you when you said before about Elon Musk, uh, giving Sam billions of dollars through gritted teeth.
- ▶ 46:11 Jason Lemkin I just think Sam and the opening I team have said, this is, this is our fate.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:15:59 Harry Stebbings Sam Altman, Demis included.
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 19:23 Harry Stebbings I think we will, because I just think Sam Altman is someone who I would never, ever bet against, and I think he's the best politician in the world, and I think when he says something, he says it with intent, and when he says we should give…
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings Sam at OpenAI then signed it. 5 times in the scene
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 25:52 Harry Stebbings Sam Altman said very clearly that they are doing cheaper and cheaper.
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 11:41 Jason Lemkin Here's Elon saying scam Altman every day to create distrust, right?
- ▶ 1:03:14 Jason Lemkin And all the early PayPal guys that did the pre-seed along with, uh, Sam Altman's two percent, they're gonna do pretty well in the end.
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 9:50 Harry Stebbings Can you help me understand, you know, as a podcaster, I specialize in asking basic questions, so forgive me, but why then do people like Dario, like Sam, like Larry and Sergey talk about AGI in the way that they do as an inevitable?
- ▶ 16:48 Harry Stebbings It is, or you see what Sam Altman's released in the last few days, which is just dramatically lower cost models.
- ▶ 28:38 Harry Stebbings When we think about the general intelligence part, just before we move kind of further into the stack of like multi-model, Sam proffered the five percent kind of gifting
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:04 Jason Lemkin This was one of Sam's initiatives that made sense when everything was working and OpenAI had an unassailable lead over, over its competitors, right?
- ▶ 54:01 Jason Lemkin Well, every five or seven years, you do have to accrue to Sam Altman or Gary Tan to run it.
Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:04 Harry Stebbings You know, I had Sam Altman on the show, and he said, you have to build for the model of tomorrow or next year.
- ▶ 38:02 Harry Stebbings Now you're like Sam Altman, dude.
Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:05 Harry Stebbings The alternative is that Sam and OpenAI give five percent to Trump, and then he puts regulatory, regulatory capture on Anthropic and OpenAI and puts attacks on open source. 4 times in the scene
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Whoa, Sam, baby.
- ▶ 3:44 unnamed speaker The world's changed to me, Sam Altman offering five percent of his company to the U S government was much more interesting in some ways.
- ▶ 4:00 Harry Stebbings And that was going to be my next point, which is like, if you take that one step further in terms of government intrusion or government, uh, opinion, uh, Sam saying, Hey, take five percent. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 unnamed speaker Sam's at nominally zero.
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:38 Harry Stebbings Sam Altman is suggesting so more and more in his kind of verbiage.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:00 Harry Stebbings You know, Rory, Jason is not only consistent, but he's also prescient in being ahead of the times because he's also cited his, I don't know if I could say disliking, but his favoring now, Sam and OpenAI over Anthropic and his kind of… 2 times in the scene
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:38 Ryan Petersen They stole, Sam stole my heart two months ago when he said you can have two months free. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:03 Ryan Petersen Pete, uh, Peter, you know, I met Peter, Sam Altman introduced me to Peter. 3 times in the scene
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:13 Harry Stebbings What did you think of Sam Altman giving two million dollars of tokens to YC companies?
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:37 Harry Stebbings When you look at a Zak or a Damas, they've always had a very different stance to Sam and Dario when it comes to labor displacement and jobs.
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Next, is the future of AI always on as Sam Altman thinks?
- ▶ 18:09 Harry Stebbings Gosh, I really want to touch on, on something kind of beneath on the product layer for OpenAI, which is, you know, Sam Altman's been driving towards kind of persistent and always on AI.
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:34 Brendan Foody Um, obviously Dario and Sam are incredible.
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:09 unnamed speaker What you're saying is, if you're on this exponential curve that, you know, Dario and Sam keep talking about, then the knowledge to be frontier keeps growing every year, and it's just super hard to keep up, right?
Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:40 Andrew Feldman One of the advantages that OpenAI has was that, uh, and I think one of Sam's brilliances 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:09 Andrew Feldman Look, I, I think, uh, what has happened, and Sam said this, he said, he said the first time people used GPT, I think it was what, four something, they said,
- ▶ 25:50 Andrew Feldman And by the way, that, that is exactly where, where I think Sam is the best in the world. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:26 Jason Lemkin Sam has been pushing the valuation to the absolute max since he, as long as he could on the thesis, he needed infinite capital, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:36 Harry Stebbings Sam Altman just offered two million dollars 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:29 Harry Stebbings But then Jason actually found one of the news stories that came off the back of this, which I didn't actually, which is that Elon spawns dozens of other investigations into Sam Altman's finances on the side, creating more problems for Sam. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:32 Rory O'Driscoll They're going to have Sam for lunch because he's lied to them as far as they're concerned, and they're going to have the AI industry as a whole in lunch because we're firing people left, right, and center, and the politics are going to be… 3 times in the scene
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28:13 Josh Browder Like, um, you bump into Sam Altman on the street. 3 times in the scene
The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:42 Harry Stebbings Well, obviously Sam Altman.
Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:04 Jason Lemkin It'll probably buy capacity from open AI if Sam lets them, uh, for some reason.
- ▶ 34:30 Jason Lemkin You know, Sam did hire Fiji to be the CEO of
- ▶ 1:03:30 Harry Stebbings Um, boys, uh, should we do some more, actually one final thing before, uh, Musk versus Altman. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:06 Jason Lemkin Unless I'm forced to, I mean, if, you know, I do it for Sam Altman, but otherwise I'm not gonna do, there's, the firesides are dead and speakers are dead.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:43:37 Cliff Weitzman I often will look at the founders, and though I get that Sam Maltman rubs a lot of people the wrong way and comes off slimy, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:57:24 Harry Stebbings I think Sam Altman said it very well when he said, you know, older people use it as a replacement to Google and younger people use it as their operating system for life. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And then finally, Sam Altman versus Elon Musk.
- ▶ 11:42 Jason Lemkin And, and when that open AI blew up and they fired Sam, Sacha kept saying that this is not such a huge bet for us back then.
- ▶ 1:07:39 Jason Lemkin And if arguably, and again, I've, I've become on, on Team Sam and OpenAI recently, um, with my agents, as my agents have taken control of my life, I've, I've changed my allegiances to some extent, but if OpenAI, OpenAI said today they… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:02 Rory O'Driscoll I think whatever's working, Mr.
- ▶ 1:19:30 Harry Stebbings In other news, Musk versus Altman trial week one. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:36 Jason Lemkin And it's not about what makes humans better, and our agents like OpenAI, and that's why I'm on one of the many reasons I've come back to Team Sam and Team OpenAI is not because I care, because my agents like OpenAI.
- ▶ 9:38 Jason Lemkin This is why Sam Altman, they're all like, you got to win the agent wars because if, if open AI wins the agent wars, then you have lock-in.
- ▶ 22:59 unnamed speaker It's going to be Sam.
- ▶ 24:23 Jason Lemkin If Sam's right, that, that really compute equals revenue one-to-one, if there's a perfect correlation, then it all kind of works out in the end, assuming that capital was available. 3 times in the scene
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:20 Jason Lemkin So Sam just said codex usage is up 50% in one month, ok?
- ▶ 1:07:52 Jason Lemkin If you're a relationship builder, if you drop by and meet with Dario, if you schmooze with Sam, there's room in the round.
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:34 Harry Stebbings Sitting down with Sam. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:01 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Sam. 8 times in the scene
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:25 unnamed speaker Like, I just can't, like, I'm, I'm, I'm, I've rotated back to, to Team Sam after all this, because I just can't take the, can't take the endless Boy Who Cries Wolf. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:39 unnamed speaker Then you'll be in the Jason happy bucket, and if not, then you'll be in the tragic value bucket, and you will have to do hard things that would make Dario and Sam cry if you're going to make this thing cash flow.
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:26 unnamed speaker I mean, literally everything Sam does gets covered. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:12 unnamed speaker And I think Sam Altman, maybe to tie it back to the start, I think Sam Altman said something this week that massive cybersecurity attacks will become from AI, right, are coming.
- ▶ 1:25:27 unnamed speaker Dario and Sam, to Rory's point, Dario and Sam are everywhere because marketing matters as much now as ever.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:39 unnamed speaker Um, then Sam had to constantly tell each of them that they were in charge, right? 8 times in the scene
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:29 unnamed speaker You could have unusual, a high, like the amount of drama with kicking Sam Altman out and then bringing him back in a dysfunctional board and like, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:42 unnamed speaker And Sam Altman is vilified and Dario gets a pass maybe because he gave away 80%, but, um, it's who wants to live, who the hell wants to live where you're vilified? 2 times in the scene
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:16 unnamed speaker I think if Sam Altman died tomorrow morning, we traded six hundred billion.
- ▶ 3:34 Harry Stebbings Because Sam has since swept in and done a deal, and we can get to that repercussions on the consumer side, but Sam has done a deal in replacement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:03 Harry Stebbings When you're talking about the power that labor holds, what you're suggesting with that given Sam sweeping in and taking it is that he does not face the same pressure from his employee base. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:33 Harry Stebbings The ultimate dealmaker that is Sam Altman, 6 times in the scene
Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:30 Eran Zinman So going back a year and a half ago, um, or even two years, you know, when some, Sam Altman wrote that famous tweet, this is Chet GPT.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:27 Harry Stebbings Do you think Sam is right to be as aggressive as he is being on all fronts, hardware, ads, discovery, codex, health, or will it be a better play being much more focused in the Dario mindset of enterprise coding, 4 times in the scene
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:08 Harry Stebbings When you think about, like, your metric of success, which you sit down with Sam or Brad or whoever it is, and say, hey, this is what we're optimizing for, what is the metric that you use as the defining North Star for your progression?
- ▶ 31:47 Harry Stebbings But I spoke to Anish Akaya, who's a GP at Andreessen, and he came out the other day, and he's like, no, no, no, this was created by Sam and Elon, and it works for very efficient people, but most of the planet want browser-based discovery,…
- ▶ 35:33 Harry Stebbings Um, I don't want Sam to kill me, but from another company, I was like, you've got, you ask him, ask him, how do you think about a coding data moat?
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:27 Harry Stebbings Today, because it's what the most productive people in the world find the most optimal UI, which is Sam, Elon, Dario.
- ▶ 1:04:40 Jason Lemkin And Sam Altman had another month and a half to think on it and said, this is a movement.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:36 Harry Stebbings How do you think about the current state of SBC stock based compensation for anyone, which is obviously how we dividend or give stocks to employees and you see aggressive from open AI argument being why does Sam give a shit if he doesn't…
- ▶ 59:45 Sebastian Siemiatkowski I was on a conference in Yellowstone, and I was on the stage, crazy enough, with Sam Altman and Eric Schmidt.
- ▶ 1:11:20 Harry Stebbings I would never dare to bet against is when you have two people you would never dare to bet against in the same market, and most people would never dare to bet against Sam. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:04 Harry Stebbings I'm sorry, we've got to finish on this, which got the essay back from Sam, and then the CMO of OpenAI being like, betrayal, treacherous, epic, disaster, whatever the kind of words were. 2 times in the scene
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:59 Anish Acharya Like Sam and Elon are the most high agency people in the world.
20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
- ▶ 13:26 Ariel Cohen And I think four years ago, three and a half years ago, I was in this conference in Napa, and Sam Altman actually presented the ChatGPT before it was released.
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 56:39 unnamed speaker On the other hand, this isn't the Sam Altman out of your ass statement.
- ▶ 1:05:02 Jason Lemkin Same with Sam Altman. 3 times in the scene
20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
- ▶ 50:28 Harry Stebbings Sam Altman said that young people use AI as an operating system for life.
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:56 Rory O'Driscoll Skeptical when Altman's talking about, we're going to need to raise a trillion dollars, they're like, yeah,
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