John Carmack
person on 11 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 79 times in 30 episodes since 2019
Acquired 23 
the a16z Podcast 17 
Latent Space 7 
20VC 7 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 6 
My First Million 5 
TBPN 5 
Another Podcast 4 
the Knowledge Project 2 
Big Technology 2 
How I Built This 1
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Acquired 23the a16z Podcast 1720VC 7Latent Space 7WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 6My First Million 5TBPN 5Another Podcast 43 more shows
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2024 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2023 37 mentions in 10 episodes 4 per episode
- #1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath
- Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
- The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- Palmer Luckey - Future of Virtual Reality, AI War, Autonomous Killing Machines, Militarized Policing
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2022 21 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
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3 statements about John Carmack, every show
Masad: Watching AI agents code is like John Carmack on cocaine
“It's like watching John Carmack on cocaine.”
Ball: Engineers lacking business and product taste will lose value
“Like as an engineer, you cannot see yourself as the person anymore who types out a spec or turns a product PRD into code. I think you need to be aware of business. You need to be aware of a product. You need to know and have some taste for software. Otherwise,…”
Huang: Quake and Unreal were the first two killer consumer 3D apps
“If he hadn't decided to go to OpenGL and accelerate, accelerate for Quake frankly, you know, what would be the killer app that put us here? And so Carmack and Sweeney, both between Unreal and Quake, created the first two killer applications for consumer three …”