Loopt
company on 13 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes · said 45 times in 21 episodes since 2018
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 19 
How I Built This 9 
My First Million 6 
TBPN 3 
Acquired 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
Big Technology 1 
All-In 1 
20VC 1 
Masters of Scale
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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More
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- How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
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2024 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
- Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
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2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2021 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC
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6 statements about Loopt, every show
Sam Altman wrote an O-1 visa recommendation letter for Augusto Marietti
“Actually, Sam Altman was one of the guys that wrote me a letter of recommendation when he was CEO of Loopt.”
Altman: Loopt was the first company ever funded by Y Combinator
“We're actually the first company ever funded by YC.”
Altman: Location apps struggled because adults have far less spontaneity
“Even as the world has gotten very mobile, most people are sort of still at home or work all the time, and there's just, like, far less spontaneity than it felt like to, like, a, you know, twenty-year-old or whatever I was at the time.”
Altman: Angel investing paid orders of magnitude more than founding Loopt
“I made like orders of magnitude more money from angel investments that I made. That I spent no time on the thing I poured my life into.”
Sam Altman invested his entire $5M Loopt payout into startups
“He also talks about basically he sold his company and he goes, he profited five million and he invested all of it in startups, which I thought was pretty crazy because we're talking about like crazy freaks.”