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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sam Altman comes up
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 35:28 Anish Acharya Like chat makes sense if you're the highest agency person in the world, which is Elon and Sam.
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 24:40 Sherwin Wu I think, I actually think Sam may have keyed it, or like, uh, Sam, Sam may have been the first one to say it, but it's fascinating to think about, right?
- ▶ 59:17 Sherwin Wu The other thing, like, I also think is important to remember, uh, at least from an open AI perspective, one thing that, that, that we've always held very near and dear, which both Sam and Greg helped, you know, reinforce from the top as…
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- ▶ 39:15 Lenny Rachitsky When ChatGPT just came out, if like, I remember Sal Mottman just tweeted, it's like, here's a cool thing we're playing with, check it out.
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- ▶ 31:56 Ben Horowitz Um, and you know, I've spent enough time with like everybody from like Mark Zuckerberg to Sam Altman and so forth that
- ▶ 56:31 Lenny Rachitsky Sam Altman said we're in a big bubble, which is, you know, that's saying a lot. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:35 Ben Horowitz I, Sam is really trying to build that, um, now a Stargate, and so I think that's going to be a very important layer of value. 3 times in the scene
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 0:21 Lenny Rachitsky And then Sam Altman's just like, hey, let me tweet about it.
- ▶ 14:06 Lenny Rachitsky And then Sam Altman's just like, hey, let me tweet about it.
- ▶ 31:54 Lenny Rachitsky You said that that it was something like 10 days from hackathon to Sam tweeting about ChatGPT being live.
- ▶ 49:40 Lenny Rachitsky And it feels like a quarter there is Sam had a big following, and everyone would pay attention to something you launched.
Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- ▶ 24:58 Ben Mann Uh, one weird thing about OpenAI is that while I was there, Sam talked about having three tribes that needed to be kept in check with each other, which was the safety tribe, the research tribe, and the startup tribe.
- ▶ 36:09 Ben Mann I only knew about them because my friend knew Greg Brockman, who's, uh, who was the CTO at the time, and, uh, Elon was there, and Sam wasn't really there, and it was, it was a very different organization, but over time, uh, I think the,…
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 57:24 Andrew Wilkinson I mean, if you trust Sam Altman and Dario Amadei, I mean, Dario Amadei said by 20, 27, our models will be smarter than all PhDs.
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
- ▶ 1:15:24 Sander Schulhoff But very notably, recently, Sam Altman at a private event, although this is, that is when public information, said that he thought they could get to 95 to 99%, you know, security against prompt injections.
- ▶ 1:17:45 Lenny Rachitsky It feels really scary that essentially as AI becomes more and more integrated into our lives physically with robots and cars and all these things, and to your point, Sam Altman saying AI will never
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 8:37 Lenny Rachitsky I remember there's a video of Sam Altman being asked, how do you make money with something like this? 4 times in the scene
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 1:30:46 Nabeel S. Qureshi Like when you think about the current administration, you think Trump, Elon, or like when you think about AI, you think of Sam, Dario, right?
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 12:25 Kevin Weil And then, you know, Sam and I had known each other lightly for a bunch of years and 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:59 Kevin Weil It's one of the things I really appreciate about Sam. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:01 Kevin Weil But just like Sam in his role would be making mistakes if he made every single decision in every meeting that he was in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:31 Lenny Rachitsky I know Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 57:30 Mike Maples, Jr. She had a laser tag idea and a few other things, but then she decided to go follow Sam Altman for a year and be as chief of staff. 2 times in the scene
The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
- ▶ 1:20:24 Jessica Livingston When we invited people to participate in the Summer Founders Program, which is what it was called, and remember that first summer had Sam Altman, Emmett Sheeran, Justin Kahn, Alexis and Steve of Reddit,
Brian Chesky’s new playbook
- ▶ 58:52 Brian Chesky I was, I was with Sam Altman probably a few weeks ago at dinner 6 times in the scene
What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- ▶ 24:25 Paul Adams And then very soon after that, Sam Altman, who's the, you know, founder of, uh, head of OpenAI said,
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
- ▶ 59:25 Gustaf Alströmer First request for startup was actually Sam Altman and a few other folks that was kind of the one who drove that.
How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary
- ▶ 6:49 Matt Mochary And eventually I met folks like Naval Ravikant and Sam Altman and Brian Armstrong, and they recommended me around to