Steph Smith
Creator, Internet Pipes. On 3 shows, 52 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Steph Smith is a technology commentator, writer, and former host of The a16z Podcast who previously scaled Trends at The Hustle and led HubSpot's creator network. She is widely recognized for dissecting online data and AI trends, creating the data tool directory Internet Pipes, and authoring the guide Doing Content Right.
3shows
52appearances
84statements
46resolved
37supported
2contradicted
80%fully supported
50said about them ↓ Everything Steph Smith said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Smith: US Longevity Gap with G7 Is Driven Primarily by Diseases of Despair
“America is falling behind some of the other, like, G-seven nations around longevity, but I thought it was because generally people were dying earlier but it's actually due to these things called diseases of despair. So just like alcoholism drugs, etc. But if y…”
Gas app's exclusive Today Show segment generated only 1,000 downloads
“Prior to the acquisition, Nikita, the founder went on the today show and had this big exclusive segment, which in the past would have been like, Huge for an application or a company. And he said he thinks it generated a thousand downloads.”
Smith: Half of for-profit US assisted living facilities generate 20%+ returns
“There are 31,000 assisted living facilities in the United States. Four out of every five are run as for profits and half of all the operators in the industry are clearing annual returns of 20% or more.”
Smith: eVTOL is the first new FAA aircraft category in nearly 80 years
“They started approving these electric Vertical takeoff and landing companies, the EV tool companies, and again, that was in the news, but what wasn't covered as much was the fact that this was the first new category of aircraft in nearly 80 years”
Smith: Waymo already accounts for 20% of Austin Uber rides
“Waymo's are already taking up 20% of Uber rides in Austin”
Smith: Target AI software at labor-starved industries to ease sales friction
“Those are exactly the industries that people should be looking at for building AI products, right? If you think about even just the selling motion that you need to do for any new product, if you're going to a company and they have ample demand, and there's lik…”
Steph Smith: AI vibe coding tools are currently significantly underpriced
“I think these different products are so underpriced given the products that people are able to create in terms of, you know, they literally could not create something in the past, and now they can create something of immense value in their life.”
Smith: An AI-written book will top NYT bestseller list in her lifetime
“I wouldn't be surprised if that happens within my lifetime, certainly”
Smith: RPA Software Cannot Replace In-Person Human Workflow Shadowing
“There's always going to be things that a human can spot more easily by just like literally shadowing someone, like sitting next to them for a day on zoom or in person. That I think there still is this gap that RPA, there's always going to be a delta between wh…”
Smith: Keeping a day job enables better creative risk-taking
“I actually think that the hybrid approach is possibly the best approach because you have the complete financial stability through your job. Right. And so you don't need to worry about that, which means you can go and be really risky, really creative and really…”
Smith: Tech giants build kid apps for decades-long user retention
“Why do you think YouTube and Instagram want to create versions for kids? I mean, it's so that they can acquire users easily and then kind of stick with those users for the next five, 10, 2050 years.”
Smith: US spends 0.8% of federal budget and $50B+ on kidney dialysis
“It was basically that .8% of the US budget is spent on kidney dialysis, which was basically three times NASA. So all these people need dialysis. It's like, I think Medicare spends over fifty billion dollars annually on dialysis and other related treatments, wh…”
Smith: Founders ignore eldercare because they have never experienced aging
“Problems that people face at this point in their life most entrepreneurs have not experienced, right? So, like, they are not thinking about what an eighty-year-old might need because they've never been 80, right?”
Steph Smith: Socialization and Strava-like features will emerge for CGMs
“I think there should be a Strava for CGMs. Now that more people are using it, even during just that trial period of a month of learning, like, I think being able to kind of socialize what you're learning, but also compete in a way that's what Strava is. Like, …”
Smith: Niche sports succeed by being either radically accessible or extremely difficult
“If you take an existing sport and you make it more, make it less agile so more people can participate, that's one direction. And then techball is the opposite. The same way that in, like, fashion. You have fast fashion, and then you have the premium brands, an…”
Smith: Human happiness follows a U-shaped smile curve across age
“People tend to be happy early in life. And then in mid, mid years, there's this like, they call it the smile curve. Cause like generally they become a little less happy. And then that curve goes like up and up and up as people get older, which is really intere…”
Smith: AI tools like Cursor make creating custom digital pages effortless
“And we're now at a point where actually you can create just about anything Through a tool like cursor, right? Where you can actually code and dictate like your creative vision on a digital page and it not being hard at all. And you can actually differentiate i…”
Smith: Wearables like Oura fail to make user health data actionable
“And I think that's actually been a limitation of many of these products too, where people wear an aura ring and they're like, it's good. Cause I can see the data, but I don't know how to relate this to my life and actually take action on it.”
Smith: Custom GPTs require specialized proprietary data to monetize
“In order for a custom GPT to, I think, be able to monetize, you do need some sort of, ah, specialized data that other people don't have. Because if that same thing can be done through ChatGPT or Claude, right, you don't have a business.”
Smith: Scraping public job postings can usurp Glassdoor's salary database
“All, every time a company is posting a job posting, they are saying how much they pay. And I have not seen anyone aggregate this information in a meaningful way, where if I'm again, if I'm trying to join a new company or if I'm trying to negotiate, I'm still g…”
Steph Smith: People Spend More Time Organizing Second Brains Than Using Them
“Some people spend more time organizing their second brain than actually using it.”
a16z Offers Employees Q-Bio Health Scans and Five-Week Firm Shutdowns
“I just wanted to share that this episode was actually inspired by some of the unique perks that I had never seen before until I joined A-Suite C. That includes a full body health scan that we get from Q-Bio or five weeks of full firm shutdown. Yes, that's righ…”
Anduril's Palmer Luckey Funds Employee Side Projects to Attract Ambitious Talent
“One that I like is Andrew Palmer Luckey says that he offers his employees, tools and technology for all of their side projects, not just their work projects, because he thinks that'll attract ambitious people.”
The other half of the tape: Steph Smith's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 48 times in 24 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sam Parr 28Shaan Puri 12Greg Isenberg 3Andrew Wilkinson 3Julie Yoo 1April MacLean 1
Statements about Steph Smith, by other people (2)
Shaan Puri: Internet personalities must amplify eccentricities instead of fitting in
“Most people are basically taking their own little volume knob and turning it down all the time because they want to fit in. And so the best thing you could do if you want to be a personality on the internet is like, you can't have that. I'm trying to fit in, t…”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
My First Million 42
the Startup Ideas Podcast 5
the a16z Podcast 1
2025 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2024 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- How I Went From Intern To CEO In 6 Months (My First Startup Gig)
- 6 startup ideas from the Tech Warren Buffett (make $120k/mo)
- Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
- Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Trung Phan on The Hustle, ChatGPT, and TikTok
- From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
- CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505)
- Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month
- 3 Community-Based Products Doing It Right with April MacLean
- 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 23 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- How Celebrities Have Made Billions off Their Names | My First Million #210
- MFM #162: Why Clubhouse Will Fail
- MFM #163: How Chrome Plugins Are Making Millions & How A Studying App is Going Viral
- Holiday Special: Great Finds (Products, Apps, Media)
- The Milly Awards 2021
- Half-Baked TV Show Ideas, Miss Excel Making Millions, The Adventure Challenge, and More
- Why You Shouldn't Be A Slave to a 40 Hour Work Week | My First Million #212
- Why You Should Spend 5x Your Budget on an Engagement Ring | My First Million #201
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2021 →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Steph's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Creator, Internet Pipes | 6 | 43 | 73% 16/22 | full record on My First Million → |
| a16zLEDGER | Creator, Internet Pipeshost | 45 | 37 | 88% 21/24 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Creator, Internet Pipes | 1 | 4 | — | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |