OpenAI, every mention
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every year anyone Sam Altman 25Scott Wu 4Tobi Lütke 2Micky Malka 2Michael Ovitz 2Marc Andreessen 1Jonathan Ross 1Eric Glyman 1David Senra 1Brian Armstrong 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where OpenAI comes up
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 4:54 David Senra When you were just talking, I wasn't even thinking about open AI and AI and Sam Altman.
- ▶ 6:29 Sam Altman A magic thing called codex. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:06 Sam Altman We have great people thinking about the product here, but the most important thing that we can do is to create smart models and to be able to run them efficiently and abundantly for a lot of people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:25 Sam Altman In late, late, when we were starting OpenAI, there were very few AGI efforts in the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:32 Sam Altman set of learnings and pattern matching if you really study and watch companies as an investor that has been super helpful to me running openai
- ▶ 33:42 Sam Altman If you go back to the beginning of OpenAI, um, I think there would have been two widely held opinions.
- ▶ 44:05 Sam Altman Now, for some reason, the field including us has not talked about that enough, even though we see all these signs of it and it's, it's great 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:04 Sam Altman OpenAI is an example of that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:47 Sam Altman When I've had something really work, when I understand like what parts of Y Combinator really worked or what parts of OpenAI really worked, trying to apply those lessons going forward has been much more helpful to me than trying to apply…
- ▶ 1:09:55 Sam Altman And the thing that was really different about OpenAI than anything that I had pattern matching before is it was four and a half years from when we started the company to when we launched our first product. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:34 Sam Altman And it had been, you know, OpenAI started as sort of a time when everybody in Silicon Valley, as their vanity project, including me, wanted to start a research lab. 3 times in the scene
Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 16:01 Michael Ovitz It's insane how many times I go to my phone and go to Claude or OpenAI or Google to get answers on things and get a deep dive in a nanosecond.
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 12:14 Micky Malka If we start with, with Ryan from Visa, the word he defines token is different than the word that Sundar has for token at Google, or the different word that OpenAI has for token, or Antropic.
- ▶ 46:28 Micky Malka And, ah, in 2019, through Sarah Fryer, who's now OpenAI, but she was, ah, she was on the board, she's on the board of Walmart, she organized a dinner where I had a chance to meet Doug McMillan, the CEO at the time.
The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
- ▶ 44:07 Eric Glyman And if you play out what they and OpenAI, just the two labs, are on track to do in revenue and call it a year's time, uh, I think it'd be reasonably conservative at this point to say they're gonna pass more than three hundred billion…
Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- ▶ 40:32 Jonathan Ross I mean, how much better off would we have been had we been the original thing running LLMs at Microsoft for OpenAI?
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
- ▶ 35:07 Scott Wu Yeah, I mean, so, so, so for us, by the way, you know, if, if you kind of think about this overall AI ecosystem, I mean, a simple way to put it, it's like, dude, we were late by a lot, you know, it's like OpenAI started. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:51 Scott Wu And so Devin, rather than being pegged to one model and saying, oh, we're only going to serve you GPT for this, or we're only going to serve you OPFIS for this, Devin can use any of the different models it has in its arsenal, which include…
- ▶ 56:04 Scott Wu And it's like, it's a very reasonable thing to say in some sense, because, you know, they did have all, you know, they did own all of GitHub, and they did have a partnership with OpenAI, and they did have like VS Code and so on.
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 47:07 Marc Andreessen They were like, whatever, Google or OpenAI or whatever, you know, comp you want to make.
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 1:43:45 Brian Armstrong Well, I've been using Claude and Codex a little bit just to, like, learn the develop, the current development tools.
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 31:21 Tobi Lütke But no other discipline really had that.
- ▶ 46:13 Tobi Lütke You know, are trying to use the word of technology, use the word of, uh, retail, um, through their own work, then, um, self-actualize, and that is a worthy goal and worthy job, and so, like, you know, AI comes out, and I'm like, people are…
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 50:22 Michael Ovitz Probably 20 notes about things that I have seen on the internet, on Instagram, on, ah, perplexity, on OpenAI, on Google, that have come up in other searches, so I saw a new set of headphones that were wildly differently designed.