OpenAI

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2023 by Chris Sacca · said 30 times in 13 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Rajiv Jain (9), Josh Wolfe (6), Alex Sacerdote (3), Dave Thornton (2), Sean Warrington (1), Ryan Lovell (1), Richard Craib (1), Mike Maples, Jr. (1)

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Everything said about OpenAI, oldest first

Jun 12, 2023 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sacca: GPT-5 will train in 2023 and be 6-8x better than GPT-4
“GPT five will be trained this year, and it'll be six to eight times better than four, maybe, maybe more.”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 1:12:10 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Nov 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Late-stage unicorns run internal tender offers, bypassing external secondary markets
“Series F plus, those are the companies that are more likely to have proper secondary markets that OpenAI, Stripe, and SpaceX, and they will do tenders for their employees, and so it really is few and far between that those deals make their way into our portfol…”
Dave Thornton Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 29:24 Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
Dec 8, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Wolfe: OpenAI Generates Roughly $13B, 70% from $20/Month Subscribers
“Today, roughly, thirteen billion of revenue at OpenAI. 70% of that revenue is from 20 dollar a month paying subscribers like me.”
Josh Wolfe Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 39:43 Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Chainlink uses OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models to reach data consensus
“Through our technology, we were able to have the AI models reach consensus on that single piece of data that is the share split 10 to one. OpenAI, yes. Anthropic, yes. Google, yes. We posted that on a blockchain as a unified golden record.”
Ryan Lovell Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 25:10 Ryan Lovell – Chainlink: The Infrastructure Pipes for Multi-Chain Finance (EP.491)
Jun 8, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jain: Over half of hyperscaler backlog stems from OpenAI and Anthropic
“Now we're getting more clarity that more than half of the backlog, hence probably the revenue too, Is coming from basically anthropic slash open AI. If you look at Google and Microsoft is more than half open AI. Amazon is more than half. So they invest with op…”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 35:48 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
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