OpenAI

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10 statements across 7 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Nov 2, 2023 by Guillermo Rauch · said 63 times in 18 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Brett Berson (15), Krithika Muthukumar (13), Ryan Glasgow (8), Amjad Masad (6), Steve Blank (4), Dan Siroker (4), Parag Agrawal (2), Gorkem Yurtseven (2)

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Nov 2, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
OpenAI built the ChatGPT web interface using the Next.js framework
“ChatGPT itself is built on Next.js.”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 37:11 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
Nov 30, 2023 positive
Opinion
Jack Krawczyk credits ChatGPT for proving consumer excitement for generative AI
“I have to give credit to ChatGPT going out into the world and showing people there's more than just the risk of this technology. There's excitement that exists.”
Jack Krawczyk Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 12:02 The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
Dec 21, 2023 neutral
Insight
Blank: Generative AI innovation will die if big tech stops competing
“So I sure hope OpenAI, Google and Facebook, and even Apple continue to slug it out at some point. Because if they don't, innovation will die in the browser or like the browser did, it will die in generative AI.”
Steve Blank Dec 21, 2023 ▶ 59:12 Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Managers should encourage employees to leave Slack once they outgrow it
“And here's a controversial one. There's times we spent a year. I'm like, you don't need to be here anymore. You have learned everything that you're going to learn here at Slack. It's time to go somewhere else. And I wouldn't say it like that, but there's truly…”
Michael Lopp Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 41:46 The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
Feb 15, 2024
Assertion Supported
Masad: Replit launched 'Explain Code' with OpenAI in 2021
“I think the first feature we launched in partnership with OpenAI was in twenty-twenty-one was explain code. And I think it was like one of the first coding applications of GPT that went into production.”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 33:25 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Aug 1, 2024
Insight
Muthukumar: Enterprise AI buyers copy vertical peers rather than first-principles reasoning
“What we found is that people tend to be much more Following the leader in the space. And so they would rather do something that another fintech company or another healthcare company is doing rather than thinking from first principles on, oh, we have a customer…”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 41:48 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Muthukumar used ChatGPT to build OpenAI's first lead scoring script
“In my early weeks at OpenAI, we launched ChatGPT Enterprise for the first time and our lead volume went through the roof. And so I worked with ChatGPT to create a Python script that was our first lead scoring module that we put into production for the sales te…”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 56:25 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Muthukumar: OpenAI operates as a branded house, not a family of brands
“We want that imbued with the same kind of underlying investments that we're making around privacy, safety, data security, the sort of responsibility and approach that we take towards model development and AI development and the future AGI development. It's rea…”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 55:39 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Muthukumar: ChatGPT has over 100 million weekly active users
“And in ChatGPT, we see more than a hundred million active users on a weekly basis.”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 47:46 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Sager: Plaid signed hundreds of AI firms including OpenAI, Perplexity, and Replit
“Now we've had, you know, hundreds of AI companies signing up and we just announced, you know, OpenAI, we announced Perplexity, we announced Replit.”
Eric Sager Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 25:43 Why great leaders make themselves obsolete | Eric Sager (COO, Plaid)
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