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O'Driscoll: OpenAI Will Capture All Ad-Buying Value Natively Without Ad-Tech
“So I think for the paid ads, all the value that's going to be captured is going to be captured by OpenAI, and there's not going to be a optimization engine.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 57:40 Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
O'Driscoll: ChatGPT ended the 2022 VC market correction within a year
“In the context of anyone playing this business from 2010 on, there has never been a period of longer than a year where there's been a substantive correction or a curtailment of capital. The only year would have been 22, twenty-three-ish, and God bless ChatGPT …”
Rory O'Driscoll Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 1:10:20 Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
Lemkin: ChatGPT reached 800M users in 17 months
“ChatGPT is the fastest, even though Sam Lesson said he's not sure it's important, it's the fastest Gain of users in, in the history of the world. Zero to eight hundred million in 17 months. Okay. That's, it took Netflix 15 times longer. It took TikTok five tim…”
Jason Lemkin Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 38:49 Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
Mollick: ChatGPT adoption exceeds 70% in universities versus single digits elsewhere
“There's a reason why adoption rates are over 70% in universities for chat GPT. And while they're like at a few percent elsewhere in the world, we figure stuff out like this.”
Ethan Mollick Jul 31, 2024 ▶ 34:52 Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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