Sam Altman
8 statements across 7 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 14, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 123 times in 35 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sam Parr (53), Shaan Puri (51), Dharmesh Shah (5), Jeremy Giffon (4), Jason Lemkin (4), Matt Mazzeo (2), Jess Mah (2), Greg Isenberg (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 29 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok
- What’s truly going on inside DOGE?
- How the smartest founders are winning in AI
- How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets
- 60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
- 5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 41 mentions in 13 episodes 3 per episode
- Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman
- Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
- Data Backed Businesses Guaranteed To Make +$1M From Day 1
- 10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- $100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
- How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell
- 3 Niche Business Ideas We Thought Would Fail… But Actually Crushed It
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 28 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
- Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
- From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526)
- If I Could Start Over Again, This Is What I’d Do To Get Rich - Scott Galloway
- Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- 3 Business Ideas You Should Start in 2024 (ft. Pomp) (#524)
- My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522)
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2022 11 mentions in 1 episode
2021 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
Everything said about Sam Altman, oldest first
Jul 14, 2021 positive
Jul 14, 2021 neutral
Dec 29, 2022 positive
Mar 30, 2023 positive
Shah: GPT-3 and GPT-4 are reasoning engines, not knowledge bases
“GPT three and now four is, is a reasoning engine. And Sam Altman has talked about this. It's not a knowledge base where it's like, and so people kind of latch on to this fact that, oh, the data that it has is from September, 20, 21, then I'm going to teach you…”
Dec 4, 2023 positive
Paul Graham predicted Sam Altman's massive success to Jess Mah in 2010
“Yeah, I actually, I mean, this was probably 13 years ago now, but I had a one-on-one with Polygram and I asked him to share, like, who do you think the most you know, successful people you've ever met? Like, who will that end up being 30 years from now if we h…”
Nov 26, 2024 bullish
Rydhan: Future billion-dollar companies will be built by 1 to 3 people
“I feel like we're going to get to a world where, and I think Sam Altman said this, which is like the one person doing dollar company, like this is happening. Like we're already experiencing another 10 X decrease in how many people you need and the abilities th…”
May 2, 2025 positive