Sam Altman
8 statements across 8 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2024 by David Luan · said 120 times in 49 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (34), Alessio Fanelli (22), Bret Taylor (11), Dharmesh Shah (3), Deedy Das (3), Steve Yegge (2), Justine Moore (2), George Hotz (2)
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2026 18 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
- Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
- 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
- Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
- ⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- ⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 63 mentions in 22 episodes 3 per episode
- The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 27 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
- The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about Sam Altman, oldest first
Mar 27, 2024
Altman and Luan pitched Microsoft's top leadership before the OpenAI investment
“The last meeting we did with Microsoft, Before Microsoft invested in OpenAI, Sam Altman, myself, and our CFO flew up to Seattle to do the final pitch meeting. And I'd been a founder before, so I always had like a tremendous amount of anxiety about partner meet…”
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Altman: AI will dynamically render custom real-time interfaces for any request
“At some point in not that many years in the future, you'll walk up to a piece of glass, you will say whatever you want they will have, like, there will be incredible reasoning models, agents connected to everything, there will be a video model streaming back t…”
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Polu: Sam Altman mastered technical ML details within two years at OpenAI
“One thing about Sam Altman, he really impressed me, because when I joined, he had joined not that long ago. And it felt like he was kind of a very high level CEO. And I was mind blown by how deep he was able to go into the subjects within a year or something, …”
Jul 9, 2025 bullish
Justine Moore: X algorithm currently drives massive reach for video clips
“I also used to think that clips would never do well, but I feel like, especially in the X algorithm right now, it's like a clipping era. Everyone, for some reason, video is, like, doing super well in the algorithm, and especially if you're, it's a video of, li…”
Oct 1, 2025 positive
Feldman: Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever invested in Cerebras' early rounds
“In 2016, we met with Sam Altman and Ilya Suskovard at OpenAI and they were an idea and we were PowerPoint, right? That's amazing. And what AI was doing was identifying cats in pictures. And I think they ended up investing in us, both of them and many of their …”
Nov 14, 2025
Dec 28, 2025 bullish
Altman, Nadella, and Pichai publicly committed to adopting MCP around April
“And then like, you had this like inflection point around April with like Sam Altman and Satya and Sundar and all posting about like MCP and that they're going to adopt MCP at Microsoft, at Google. At OpenAI and that was really like the big inflection point.”