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What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 24:14 John Collison Uh, like, you know, maybe the prior generation of companies were very heavily ad dominant, whereas if you look at, you know, ChatGPT or Claude or something like that, they have to have the various tiers of, uh, you know, subscriptions, 20…
The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash
- ▶ 1:21:35 John Collison Other thing that we're thinking about a lot is just how does commerce change now that people's expectations are increasingly, they ask their AI for stuff, and so it feels like you should be able to ask your AI, whether that's, you know,…
The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
- ▶ 12:43 John Collison We're talking a bit about, kind of, products here, and one thing I note is that LLMs are amazing, and, you know, you have the usage stats of CheckGPT and Gemini and all the popular LLMs where they're working and people use them a ton.
- ▶ 18:05 John Collison I will claim it's not working yet, so Siri doesn't have the intelligence, and then on Gemini and ChatGPT and those apps, I mean, I want to use the voice mode, but I don't know about you, it just doesn't work, and so, like, sometimes I'll…
The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 0:18 John Collison A bit of history that people talk about a lot in the context of Google and AI is the fact that Transformers were invented at Google, but then productized outside of Google, uh, with, uh, mostly ChatGPT and kind of that style of product. 3 times in the scene
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
- ▶ 42:35 Christina Cacioppo And I mean, like, how many chat GPT-written emails do you get, you know, in your inbox a day?
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 1:25 John Collison But isn't that, okay, the thing that seems to me is funny, is if you look at the landscape, still in twenty-twenty-six, if you open a new Gemini chat, or if you open a new ChatGPG chat, it's basically a blank slate.
- ▶ 4:50 Bret Taylor And I, I use memory in chat TVT
- ▶ 1:40:13 Bret Taylor And then you already see in chat TPT growth, you know, uh, really unprecedented levels, and things like OpenClaw, you can sort of see
Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
- ▶ 9:06 Reiner Pope Um, and so back in 22, before ChatGPT was released, uh, there was this idea that LLMs were going to be a big thing, but, um, not conviction and really hard, uh, to, to make a big bet on that.
Stripe’s 2024 annual letter
- ▶ 7:05 John Collison We started with ChatGPT, but are now seeing a proliferation of industry-specific tools.
Stripe’s 2025 annual letter
- ▶ 6:52 John Collison ChatGPT, Claude, Replit, Lovable, Base-Forty-Four, Vercel, Cursor, Mid-Journey, and many more launched globally by default.
- ▶ 23:18 John Collison And we partnered with OpenAI to power the first shopping experience inside ChatGPT.
Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
- ▶ 24:00 Alex Rampell Because he used to sell this document, or like, you know, he used to sell a subscription to Kirkland, Nellis, and Latham Watkins, and all these big law firms, and they would take, a paralegal would take that, they would turn it into like a…
- ▶ 34:17 Patrick Collison As in, they subscribe to ChatGPT or Anthropic or something like that.
- ▶ 54:01 Alex Rampell It's just like, I mean, I, I, my wife got into an argument with some company and it's like she used ChatGPT to argue with them.
Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
- ▶ 6:20 Ben Thompson Actually, OpenAI could stop making models and be one of the most valuable companies in the world just because of ChatGPT.
- ▶ 11:21 John Collison Like, you know, ChatGPT just announced that they're doing ads. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:13 John Collison And so imagine you find the winter jacket you like, and you copy the URL into ChatGPT and just say, please buy this for me. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:35 Ben Thompson I do, not always, but I will sometimes ask it to, and this is where I like ChatGPT, like I type in BBEdit as an integration.
- ▶ 1:09:59 Ben Thompson ChatGPT comes out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:40 Ben Thompson Hours spent in ChatGPT, hours not spent on Instagram, are not spent, and I think that, that's an underrated,