Sam Altman
24 statements across 12 episodes · 9 bullish · 7 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 7, 2024 by Brad Gerstner · said 132 times in 32 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Brad Gerstner (57), Bill Gurley (50), Satya Nadella (6), Rene Haas (4), Sundeep Madra (3), Sherwin Wu (3), Jensen Huang (3), Sunny Madra (1)
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 53 mentions in 14 episodes 4 per episode
- Stargate, Executive Orders, TikTok, DOGE, Public Valuations | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
- DeepSeek, Open Source, Tariffs, DOGE, Market Impact | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
- Coatue Pt2. Open AI’s Kevin Weil Dives into All Things ChatGPT | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- China Open-Source, Compute Arms Race, Reordering Global Trade | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- China, China, China. Breaking Down China’s Tech Surge | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 75 mentions in 16 episodes 5 per episode
- Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Ep8. AI Models, Data Scaling, Enterprise & Personal AI | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Ep6. AI Demand / Supply - Models, Agents, the $2T Compute Build Out, Need for More Nuclear & More · Bg2 Pod
- Ep16. Nuclear Update, AI Fast & Furious, State of VC | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Ep12. Tech Stocks vs the Rest; AI VC Bubble, Calcium CT Scan | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Ep10. Pre-IPO Market, AI Hype Cycle, Is Software Dead? | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner | NVDA, Chips, AI Compute Build Out, AI Impact on Big Tech | E03 · Bg2 Pod
- Ep11. Coatue Conference Recap, Tesla & ISS Controversy | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Sam Altman, oldest first
Mar 7, 2024 bearish
Gerstner: OpenAI Should Rename to ChatGPT and Focus on Google
“If I was Sam Altman running OpenAI, I think I might rename the company ChatGPT and just focused on the multi-trillion dollar opportunity to replace Google, right? Because I think winning at both, beating Google at consumer and beating Microsoft at enterprise y…”
Apr 4, 2024 negative
Gurley: Sam Altman's Energy Compute Framing Is Jobsian-Level Promotion
“I want to, there's two things Sam did this in this recent Interview that I think put him in the promotion hall of fame. And one of them was he juxtapositioned AI versus the smartphone market and then on the smartphone market is being small. He said, well, that…”
Apr 29, 2024 positive
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Gurley: NVIDIA customer concentration may increase as AI training costs escalate
“And there may be, if that trajectory remains true, you could have an evolution where customer concentration increases for NVIDIA over time rather than going the other way, depending on how, you know, if Sam's right that they're gonna spend a hundred, Billion o…”
Dec 12, 2024 neutral
Nadella: OpenAI Briefly Used GCP Before Returning to Microsoft for Transformers
“The first time yeah, actually, Elon and Sam, they were looking for, obviously, Azure credits, and what have you, and we gave them some credits, and that time, they were more into RL, and Dota II, and what have you, and that was interesting and then we stopped …”
Jan 23, 2025 neutral
Gurley: Microsoft refused to build massive AI cluster Altman wanted
“I think my own interpretation is Microsoft didn't want to build this big, you know, open AI playground or one as big as maybe Sam wanted to build. And so he went somewhere else and everybody, But everyone at the surface behaving like they're okay with that.”
Jan 23, 2025 neutral
Feb 5, 2025 bullish
Mar 2, 2025 negative
May 22, 2025 bullish
Gerstner Predicts OpenAI Will Release an Open-Source Model by Summer 2025
“I do think you're going to see the open AI open source model. I mean, Sam's talked about it many times. I think you're going to see that in the next 30 days or so, certainly by the end of summer, but I would guess sooner rather than later.”
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Gerstner: Massive divergence remains between tech CEOs and Wall Street on AI
“And what it shows me is still, even though we're two and a half years into the age of AI, a massive divergence of belief between what we hear Sam Altman saying, you saying, Sundar saying, Satya saying, and what Wall Street still believes.”
Oct 31, 2025 bullish
Oct 31, 2025 bullish
Altman: A 100x drop in compute cost would trigger >100x demand surge
“If the price of compute per like unit of intelligence or whatever, however you want to think about it. Fell by a factor of a hundred tomorrow, you would see usage go up by much more than a hundred. And there'd be a lot of things that people would love to do wi…”
Oct 31, 2025 neutral
Oct 31, 2025 neutral
Altman: OpenAI has no IPO date or formal decision to go public
“No, no, no, we don't have anything that specific. I'm a realist. I assume it will happen someday, but that was I don't know why people write these reports. We don't have like a date in mind. We don't have a decision to do this or anything like that. I just ass…”
Oct 31, 2025 neutral
Nadella: Microsoft refused OpenAI requests for dedicated multi-gigawatt compute clusters
“Sometimes you may have to say no to some of the demand, including some of the open AI demand, right? Because sometimes, you know, Sam may say, hey, build me a dedicated, you know, big, you know, whatever, multi-gigawatt data center in one location for training…”
Oct 31, 2025 bearish
Oct 31, 2025 bullish
Altman: Customers will pay premium rates for breakthrough-level AI models
“Now, on the other hand, as the models get even smarter and you can use these models to cure cancer or discover novel physics or drive a bunch of humanoid robots to construct a space station or whatever crazy thing you want, then maybe there's huge willingness …”
Oct 31, 2025 positive
Oct 31, 2025 negative
Altman: OpenAI Does Not Know How to Comply with Colorado AI Act
“I don't know how we're supposed to comply with that California, sorry, Colorado law. I would love them to tell us you know, we'd like to be able to do it, but that's just, from what I've read of that, that's like I literally don't know what we're supposed to d…”
Oct 31, 2025 positive
Oct 31, 2025 negative