Tim O'Reilly
person on 12 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes · said 35 times in 15 episodes since 2016
Acquired 8 
Big Technology 6 
Another Podcast 5 
My First Million 5 
Lenny's Podcast 3 
Sourcery 2 
20VC 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
BG2 Pod 1 
How I Built This 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
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Acquired 8Big Technology 6Another Podcast 5My First Million 5Lenny's Podcast 320VC 2Sourcery 2the a16z Podcast 13 more shows
2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 6 mentions in 1 episode
2024 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
2021 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
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4 statements about Tim O'Reilly, every show
Sam Lessin: OpenAI obviously stole O'Reilly Safari books to train models
“I think I saw this thing about Tim O'Reilly saying like, it's pretty obvious that like they stole all the proprietary information from Safari and like their books to like build it. And it's like, it's total. I'm sure it's true. We all know that they stole ever…”
O'Reilly: Amazon Echo succeeded by designing hardware around having no screen
“I think the reason that they got it right where other people weren't was they basically built a device that literally assumed there was no screen.”
O'Reilly: The next major computing platform will be cross-device AI agents
“And when you talk about what's that next platform, I think it may be in the level of what is the software that's running in your car and in your watch and in your, you know, Phone and in your computer. And I can just talk to this agent, for example, or I can i…”
O'Reilly: Extractive platform control, not technology, causes income inequality
“We have built an economy where a small number of people own and control platforms, and many of them are using those platforms extractively and competing with the ecosystem as a whole. That's why we see this vast income inequality, why we see you know, the holl…”