Ranjan Roy
11 statements across 8 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 19, 2025 by Ranjan Roy · said 77 times in 45 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2026 8 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
- Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
- OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
- OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
- AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
- The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
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2025 34 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
- Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- 2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
- Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
- OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
- Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
- The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
- Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 29 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
- Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us
- Spotify Co-President Gustav Söderström on their future with Generative AI
- What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
- Neuralink's First Patient Controls Computers With His Mind — With Noland Arbaugh
- AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
- Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
- Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Ranjan Roy, oldest first
Apr 19, 2025 negative
Roy: OpenAI o3 Repeated Walmart 23 Times in Top Retailers Query
“However, this morning I asked, and I asked from the deep, deep research side, what are the top 150 retailers in the U.S. By revenue in 2024? Seemingly straightforward query. It returned Walmart 23 times and Amazon 36 times In this list.”
Apr 19, 2025 bearish
May 27, 2025 bearish
Ranjan Roy: One-person billion-dollar company by 2026 is pure hype
“Hype. Absolute hype. I, I'm actually so tired of this. I'm coming around even more than it's the product, not the model. I'm coming around more. It's people. It's not technology. That's my new one. It's P it. This is more of a people challenge than a technolog…”
May 27, 2025 bullish
Ranjan Roy: Software coding is the most automatable part of building companies
“I'm gonna go more true on that one. I really think, again, that's my whole thing, that it's not about coding, that the coding, coding is the most AI-able part of this entire thing, so yes. I'm gonna say a little bit true.”
Aug 6, 2025 bearish
Dec 29, 2025 bullish
Jan 12, 2026 positive
Roy argues system architecture, not foundation models, drives agentic AI progress.
“Like the architecture side of how people are approaching these kinds of agentic workflows is getting solved. I think that's the big thing. And It's not at the model level that models are helping, but it, and it's, yeah, it's the, it's not the product actually.…”
Jan 19, 2026 bearish
Roy: Top talent will refuse to work at companies resisting AI in 2026
“And it'll force people because also people, if you're at an organization that doesn't adopt it, you don't want to work there and it's going to be the most talented people. So I think that all that kind of culture clashing will really come to a head this year.”
Feb 9, 2026 positive
Feb 9, 2026 positive
Roy: Working with AI agents makes managerial skills more important than ever
“Like, to me, I actually, like, what it feels like when you're working in this way is that you're basically a manager. You're managing all these different agents to do different type of work. So, like, you start to realize managerial skills become more importan…”
Sep 7, 2026 neutral
Roy: The industry will adopt recursive AI if it proves cheaper
“If it starts to show that this is actually a much cheaper way, a more compute efficient way to approach any kind of workflow, like, people will probably start leaning towards it more or pushing for it. Or if OpenAI does not do it, then others will, which I do …”