Brad Smith
person on 11 shows · 8 statements across 7 episodes · said 49 times in 26 episodes since 2017
Top Founders 15 
All-In 10 
Big Technology 7 
Acquired 6 
the a16z Podcast 4 
Invest Like the Best 2 
BG2 Pod 1 
American Optimist 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
TBPN 1 
20VC 1
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Top Founders 15All-In 10Big Technology 7Acquired 6the a16z Podcast 4Invest Like the Best 2American Optimist 1the Official SaaStr Podcast 13 more shows
2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs
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2025 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg
- AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking
- OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Trae Stephens talks Flock Safety, Anduril, and American Dynamism.
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2024 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- Jared Kushner - The Mechanic · Invest Like The Best
- 10 Cheat Codes I Learned While Scaling to $400M with Yext and Roam Founder Howard Lerman
- Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
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2023 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2018 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- 1240 Everlance Passes $150k in MRR, Saves 30,000 Customers Big Time Tax Dollars
- 1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ
- 1191 How Bootstrapped Time Tracking CEO Drives 100% yoy Growth, $3.8m in ARR
- 1056 DataStax CEO: "We're growing 40% yoy with 110% net revenue expansion"
- 894 SaaS: How Broadly Got SMB Churn Sub 2%, 5m+ ARR
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8 statements about Brad Smith, every show
Chamath: Every country in the world is developing a sovereign AI strategy
“After this UN commission that I joined with Benioff and Jensen and Brad Smith, there is not a single country in the world that. Is not trying to figure out its own sovereign AI strategy.”
Bender says Microsoft abandoned net-zero carbon goals because of generative AI
“I would say that we've got Brad Smith at Microsoft giving up on the plans to become a net zero carbon since the beginning of Microsoft, and he said this ridiculous thing about we had a moonshot to get there, and turns out with generative AI, the moon is five t…”
Kushner: Early US COVID testing was constrained to 1.2M swabs across 37 sites
“They said, we have 1.2 million swabs in the country. I said, okay, what does that mean? They said, that means we could do 37 testing sites.”
Chamath: Microsoft has successfully closed all major acquisition attempts under Brad Smith
“When you look at the track record of his ability post this consent decree to get deals done inside of Microsoft, it's truly incredible. There is nothing that they've really tried to buy, whether it's Nuance or whether it's Mojang or whether it's GitHub. Activi…”
Prioritize 'crystal' relationships over 'rubber' career obligations
“In life, you got to weigh the things that are rubber and those that are crystal. Things that are rubber bounce back. After some period of time, you'll, you'll never think about it again. Things that are crystal hit the ground, shatter, and you can't necessaril…”
Intuit Acquired TSheets for Almost 10x ARR at $30M Run Rate
“He positioned TSheets number one in the Intuit app
Change many years ago, grew basically to thirty million in ARR, and then recently Brad took him out, basically paid him almost 10 X ARR to acquire the company.”