Plumber

topic on 11 shows · 14 statements across 14 episodes · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2021

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a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Overtoom: Demand for dentists and plumbers is double current supply capacity
“If you just look at the dental practice, but the same applies to try to find a good plumber there's just like twice as much demand that currently can be supplied.”
Stein Overtoom Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 43:33 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
MAD Prediction Held up
Katti: Skilled labor shortages will become an increasing bottleneck for AI expansion
“No, I think there is definitely a shortage of electricians, plumbers, all kinds of trades, you name it. So anything we can do to train more folks to be able to do those, there are very well-paying jobs that a lot of us, all of the hyperscalers, all of the labs…”
Sachin Katti Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 39:55 OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti
MORE OR LESS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: Plumbers are set for life against automation
“Britt, plumbers are going to be great. They're set for life.”
Dave Morin May 22, 2026 ▶ 51:18 Google I/O Just Killed SEO? Agentic Search, Universal Cart, and the New Web · More or Less Podcast
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Osher: Plumbers outearned other trades in his Gurdjieff commune
“Even when I was a plumber in this Gurdjieff group, I was rich, you know, within the context of my life. I, you know, I had a house and a car and a wife, and I made much more money than everyone else in the group because I was in a business that you could charg…”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 13:02 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
MAD Assertion Supported
Patel: Electrician and plumber wages are skyrocketing from AI expansion
“Electricians wages are skyrocketing, you know, et cetera. Right. Like the plumbers wages are skyrocketing.”
Dylan Patel Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 1:03:30 Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
BIGDEAL Assertion Supported
Codie Sanchez: More plumbers make six figures than podcasters
“In fact, there's way more people that are plumbers. Making a hundred K than podcasters.”
Codie Sanchez Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 1:07:42 Stop People Pleasing: How To Set Boundaries (And Say No) | Charlamagne Tha God
WTF Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kamath: Manual trades like plumbing will outlast analytical jobs under AI
“I feel like the easiest of jobs will get replaced late. So I think if I were a plumber, my job would probably last longer than if I were above a plumber in the Maslow's law of hierarchy in a way.”
Nikhil Kamath Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 7:37 The Case for Youth in Politics | HE Omar Sultan Al Olama (One of the World's Youngest Ministers) · Nikhil Kamath
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sununu: Electricians, plumbers, and mechanics will be tomorrow's millionaires
“The challenge you're gonna have is the electricians, the plumbers the mechanics, these guys are making a fortune now, and I love it. These are tomorrow's millionaires.”
Chris Sununu Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 27:53 These Jobs Will Skyrocket in the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale
Parr: Podcasters are not safe from AI automation, but plumbers are
“11 Labs has, they use like a Stephen Fry voice, and they read the news. I listen to it. It's awesome. It's not safe. We're not safe. No one's safe. Maybe like a plumber. A plumber's safe.”
Sam Parr Jan 3, 2025 ▶ 1:03:43 Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Questions That Will Change Your Life
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: Tripling a plumber's hourly rate generated more customer leads
“They did it for a plumber, just a plumber, right? They tripled his rate and the variant with the three times the price, the hourly rate, Got more leads than the one that was cheaper, the cheapest, because people respected the higher cost.”
Oshree Cohen Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 46:26 He Raised His Price 3x and Got More Leads Than the Cheaper Version
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Socher: Plumbers will eventually earn more than marketers as AI automates knowledge work
“Probably at some point, your plumber might get more than your marketer because the marketer can use tools and be way, way more efficient, but the plumber AI is going to take a very long time because None of the plumbing companies are collecting data, having ro…”
Richard Socher Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 45:06 Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
CATALYST Assertion Contradicted
Bartholomew: Average age of HVAC installers and plumbers is 55
“You know, the average age is 55 right now for an HVAC installer or a plumber.”
Panama Bartholomew Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 14:10 The Carbon Copy: The great electrician shortage
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Contradicted
The Average US HVAC Installer and Plumber Is 55
“You know, the average age is 55 right now for an HVAC installer or a plumber.”
Panama Bartholomy Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 10:19 The great electrician shortage
MAD Opinion
Plumber provides more granular stream introspection than native Apache Kafka
“It essentially gives you the ability to introspect streams, and it's super, super granular, super detailed, and it gives you know, better, better information than what you would get natively from Kafka.”
DeVaris Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 23:54 Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

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