Andrew Ross Sorkin
Co-Anchor, CNBC. On 5 shows, 8 appearances, plus 3 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin is a financial journalist who anchors CNBC’s morning show Squawk Box and founded The New York Times’ financial franchise DealBook. He is the author of Too Big to Fail and 1929, as well as a co-creator of the television drama series Billions.
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8appearances
72statements
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41said about them ↓ Everything Andrew Ross Sorkin said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sorkin: AMC CEO is selling shares at vastly overvalued prices
“And I don't want to say he's taking advantage of them, but if they're taking advantage, he's taking advantage by selling shares to them at prices that I think he knows full well are vastly overvalued.”
Sorkin: Large charitable stock transfers by billionaires should be taxed
“I very unpopularly would probably tax great philanthropy, meaning most philanthropists, including Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, effectively are transferring shares Typically founder shares into their foundations or to a charity, which means that those shares, …”
Sorkin: Justifying AI Valuations Requires Eliminating Human Labor Costs
“Meaning if you ever wanted to think about what would this country look like with 25% unemployment, how would you get there? And I think the answer is potentially if AI is as successful as I think we all hopefully want it to be to the extent you believe these v…”
Sorkin: Humans Will Not Code Their Own Software In The Future
“I just don't see how we're gonna be sitting around doing our own programming. I just don't see it.”
Sorkin: In Five Years, AI Will Co-Author Books And Articles
“But five years from now, do you really think that people are going to write books even by themselves? I assume you would be co-authoring a book with AI. I imagine people will be writing articles at minimum with AI if AI is not doing it in entirely”
Sorkin: AI wealth will concentrate in big tech and incumbents hiring agents
“I believe that the wealth and the great riches are going to go both to the model makers, some of the big tech companies, and probably the folks who already have had success because they will be at the top of these food chains, and instead of hiring more people…”
Sorkin: Private equity and credit both delay markdowns to preserve valuations
“There is a whole sort of universe that I'd put in the category of mark to make believe. And the incentive system is such that you want that mark to make believe to go on as long as possible, because if you are The equity owner, you don't want to mark your mark…”
Sorkin: AI Faces Potential Dot-Com-Style Bubble And Bust Timing Mismatch
“The bigger question is whether there's going to be like a timing mismatch, that there's going to be some period of time. Same way, by the way, we had a dot com bubble and bust where the economics didn't match the investments at that time. Now, Amazon is still …”
Sorkin: Post-WWII middle-class American dream was a historical aberration
“I actually think that was a historical aberration. That was not the way it used to be. If you look at the 19 twenties, it was not like that. You look at the 19 thirties, it wasn't like that. The leave it to be for American dream that I think this individual is…”
Sorkin: SpaceX IPO Will Likely Outpace OpenAI in Valuation
“Oh, I imagine it does. I mean, I, if we're talking, I think the numbers now, 1.75 trillion dollars with a T. I think right now OpenAI isn't, doesn't start with a T yet, but maybe.”
Paul Tudor Jones Believes Current Market Resembles October 1999 Dot-Com Bubble
“I was talking to Paul Tudor Jones about a week ago, and he said, I was asking him this question about bubbles. He said, ah, I think we're in maybe like October, 1999. Right now. And I said, oh, that's interesting. Okay. 99. He said, but there's still, if you s…”
Sorkin: SEC Chair Gary Gensler might target Elon Musk and SPAC promoters
“And so could he go after some individuals? I wouldn't be surprised if he weren't, and I wouldn't be surprised if he even went after an Elon Musk. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to go after some of the people some of the higher profile people involved in S…”
Sorkin: MicroStrategy has turned into a leveraged Bitcoin fund
“Michael Saylor at MicroStrategy. He's now effectively raising money from public investors in taking out loans. This is like a, his company's turned into a leveraged, basically a leveraged Bitcoin fund is effectively what it is.”
Sorkin: Every financial crisis is driven solely by excessive debt leverage
“Every financial crisis is really only a function of one thing. It's too much debt. It's too much credit leverage in the system.”
Sorkin: Proponents of 'democratizing finance' fail to protect everyday investors
“What I find so strange, what I find so strange is the people who are, who Say they're trying to democratize finance seem to do such a lousy job of actually trying to protect the people that they say they're democratizing it for.”
Sorkin: Economic growth has historical upper limits and is partly zero-sum
“Some of this is a zero sum game. It is not like that the pie can just grow exponentially. I know there are people who believe that it could, but invariably at least historically hasn't. There are sort of upper limits to even what growth could ultimately even l…”
Sorkin: AI Will Consolidate Into A Single Voice-Driven Consumer Interface
“I think I'll go with, there's gonna be one interface. I don't know if it's one bot, but one interface that you will interact with. I imagine likely talking rather than even typing.”
Sorkin: AI presents Google's best chance to take share from Apple
“I would imagine that this should be the greatest opportunity for Google and Alphabet Effect or Alphabet to truly take share because Gemini, if built the way I think it should be built, should be able to move you around their phone in shocking ways, right? It s…”
Sorkin: Private credit cannot collapse before private equity loses money
“The private credit business really can't fall apart before, frankly, the private equity industry falls apart. Meaning, if you think about it, who has taken on the biggest loans from private, from the private credit space? It's oftentimes the private equity pla…”
Sorkin: AI Threat To SaaS Recurring Revenue Could Trigger Credit Defaults
“Well, if you decide the software company is no longer a thing and may not have this recurring revenue, all of a sudden its value has to come down, and all of a sudden, therefore, they would have to lose all their money, and then if for the credit guys who loan…”
Sorkin: Data centers differ from railroads because chips require continuous upgrades
“The one other thing about data centers, which is a little bit more nerve-wracking, is it's not like putting, you know, people compare it to putting fiber in the ground or building the railroads. You put the tracks down. Because once you build a data center, yo…”
Sorkin: Prediction market speculation is driven by US wealth inequality
“One of the reasons why people are moving to prediction markets and moving to what I would describe as the sort of a lottery ticket approach to life. It's a little bit YOLO. Is a function of the inequality that we have in this country.”
Sorkin: Investor Losses Get Socialized When Individuals Cannot Afford Them
“The truth is, depending on how you run a country and a social safety net and a system, if you can't afford the loss, then the loss gets fully socialized.”
The other half of the tape: Andrew Ross Sorkin's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 40 times in 25 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
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All-In 23
TBPN 10
Big Technology 6
My First Million 1
2026 10 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN
- Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
- The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
- OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 13 mentions in 10 episodes 1 per episode
- Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
- OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- 60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
- Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
- DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Co-Anchor, CNBC | 2 | 39 | 67% 2/3 | full record on Big Technology → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Co-Anchor, CNBC | 2 +1 | 17 | 80% 8/10 | full record on TBPN → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | Co-Anchor, CNBC | 4 | 16 | 83% 5/6 | full record on All-In → |
 BIGDEALLEDGER | Co-Anchor, CNBC | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on BigDeal → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Co-Anchor, CNBC | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on My First Million → |