The Office
topic on 20 shows · 17 statements across 17 episodes · said 73 times in 43 episodes since 2019
My First Million 23 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 14 
TBPN 9 
Lenny's Podcast 5 
All-In 5 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 3 
Invest Like the Best 3 
Sourcery 3 
Big Technology 3 
the Knowledge Project 2 
BigDeal 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
How I Built This 1 
We Live to Build 
American Optimist 
Masters of Scale 
the Neon Show 
Capital Allocators 
the a16z Podcast 
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2026 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
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- Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
- Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN
- Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
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2025 17 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Ari Emanuel’s "Anti-AI" Bet on Live Entertainment · Invest Like The Best
- The Genius Behind Severance’s Surreal World – Jeremy Hindle
- Make $1M+ in 2026 with this Trend (IRL is back)
- Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- if you didn't make progress in 2025, watch the first 10 minutes.
- AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment
- Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
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2024 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
- 3 Underdog Stories That’ll Get You Inspired This Week
- Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
- Rob Fraser: The Power of Focus
- We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
- Rich Roll: How to Reinvent Yourself (from Broke Alcoholic to Multi-Millionaire)
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2023 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Status Games, Fame, and the Truth about FIRE
- The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
- Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott
- Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 23 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- A Breakdown of Trendy New Businesses & Boring 9 Figure Businesses | My First Million #202
- The $5M Question, The Company You Would Build If You Had the Time, VR Therapy, and More
- The NSFW Framework & the Magic of Community-Product Fit with Amanda Goetz | Where It Happens
- Shaan Challenges Sam to Ignore His Limits, Michael Rubin is the Billy of the Week, and More
- The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash | My First Million #211 with Julian Shapiro
- The Playbook to Boosting Net Retention (Quickly) with Terminus's CEO | SaaStr Software Community
- Half-Baked TV Show Ideas, Miss Excel Making Millions, The Adventure Challenge, and More
- Reinventing Home Ownership and Concierge Businesses With Sam Parr | Where It Happens
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16 statements about The Office, every show
Boucai: Low capex enables multifamily to distribute cash more consistently than office
“Multifamily is a asset class that Has historically had low capex. It lends itself well to making distribution, whereas things like office or retail are tenant improvement heavy. Therefore, maybe more episodic in its ability to return capital to investors.”
Emanuel: Comcast paid $500M for The Office streaming window
“You're doing it at for the office. You're doing it at Comcast for that's the window. It's five hundred million dollars for the new window.”
Nadella: Microsoft gaming will follow Office strategy across all platforms
“Similar approach to what we did with Office. We, we're going to be everywhere in every platform. So we want to make sure whether it's consoles. Whether it's the PC, whether it's mobile, whether it's Cloud gaming. Or the TV. So we just want to make sure the gam…”
Welch argues employees generally must work in the office for promotions
“Yes, I think so. I mean, I see it all the time. I think in general, you're, you've got to be in the office if you want to be promoted.”
Hindle: Severance was originally budgeted to shoot on location like The Office
“It was budgeted exactly like the office shoot in the location.”
Alfred Lin argues all companies should require returning to the office
“So, I think all companies should go back to being in the office a certain number of days a week. It doesn't have to be five.”
Inside sales reps develop faster when working in person
“Any inside salesperson should recognize that by being in the office, they are going to get better faster. They're going to develop faster. They're going to be better at what they are doing faster.”
Samuel: Parents with young kids are most eager to return to offices
“It actually turned out that some of the people who are most eager to return to the office are people with young kids, because it's super annoying to try and get your work done when the kids are pestering you.”
Davidson: Average construction foreman spends eight hours weekly tracking materials
“Right now, your average foreman is spending eight hours a week just calling up the office trying to figure out when is stuff arriving? Has something been ordered? Can they actually place a change order? All of that really eats into the amount of time that they…”
Boyd: Office and retail properties currently require all-equity financing
“The good news for apartments is we can still get loans. We can get really nice loans still. But if you're in Retail or office. There's just no loan. You've got to do all your deals, all equity, which is pretty wild.”
Smith: Florence's Uffizi Gallery was the predecessor to the modern office
“In fifteen-sixty, we saw the predecessor to the office, which was Florence's Euphysi Gallery.”
Parrish: Remote workers will end up working for in-office colleagues
“Oh, I just said the people who don't go back to the office are going to end up working for the people that do.”
Weisbrot: Physical offices are dead, while AR and VR drive productivity and culture
“I think AR is really solid for productivity. VR is very solid for company culture and engagement, and I think offices are dead for multiple reasons.”
Future generations will view physical offices and factories as obsolete
“You know, the next generation, like our kids will wonder saying people used to go to something called a factory or an office. What does that mean? Because, you know, you bring the office into the home and you work wherever you are. I mean, you could live in Go…”
Chamath predicts workers will ultimately want to return to physical offices
“It's partially real, and I think the biggest implication is belongingness, community, feeling part of a group. And so, I think when we can go back to the office, we'll want to.”