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The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of Jan 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:28 Shaan Puri Demis is maybe that guy now, him and Sam Altman.
  • ▶ 45:11 Sam Parr I think when Larry, I don't pay attention to the news too much, but when Larry Ellison and, um, Masa Sun and Trump and, uh, uh, Altman did this thing where it was like, you know, you know, a hundred trillion dollars or something like…

60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA) Dec 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:41 Sam Parr That other people, I think you even said, I saw another interview about Zuck and I think you referenced Sam Altman.

5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time) Oct 21, 2025 · 1 mention

How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B Oct 13, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 53:36 Shaan Puri like, you know, Elon, or, you know, you guys were pre-YC, so like, you know, Paul Graham, Sam Albin, whoever, the players who have gone on to do, like, really interesting things, Zuck, early on, you know, um, 3 times in the scene

The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok Oct 3, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:02 Shaan Puri He goes, uh, Sam Altman, you know, open AI, we're going to cure brain cancer. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:44 Shaan Puri And, um, it's all quite powerful, um, and some people don't trust Sam Altman, so I think there's that dystopian of like,
  • ▶ 14:15 Sam Parr Sam Altman's gonna be throwing stuff at us, uh, like our slop that we have to eat in a cage, and this is just how it's going to be.

How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing Sep 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:20 Shaan Puri Like publicly feuding with the president and Sam Altman and others, right?

3 Wild Stories to Get You Hyped This Week Aug 18, 2025 · 1 mention

How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents) Jun 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:12 Matt Mazzeo I mean, Sam Altman's got like the initiation point for basically every new business that's getting built, right? 2 times in the scene

How the smartest founders are winning in AI Jun 4, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 51:33 Jason Lemkin So I just invested in the five best guys that came by the office the first year, but they're all worth, ended up being worth a billion dollars.
  • ▶ 57:07 Jason Lemkin Even Sam Altman does that, doesn't he? 3 times in the scene

Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000 May 2, 2025 · 1 mention

7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier Apr 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:00 Shaan Puri Uh, but now Sam Altman and, and, and Elon and, um, and, and Palmer again with Andrew have had a new status moment.

What’s truly going on inside DOGE? Feb 17, 2025 · 6 mentions

The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets Feb 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025 Nov 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:02 Furqan Rydhan You could do a few different things here, but 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.
  • ▶ 1:15:23 Shaan Puri So hardware being hard, but it's like maybe hardware is not as hard as it used to be that, uh, like Sam calls these inflections where, you know, um, something changes.

3 Stories Of People Making Millions In Weird Ways Nov 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:35 Shaan Puri In his gap year, he created a one million dollar nonprofit and ran the most viral tech conference of the year that had Sam Altman and others come.

How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview Oct 8, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:59 Sam Parr And Sam Altman has this, or I don't know who said it. 2 times in the scene

10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024 Sep 13, 2024 · 3 mentions

The Top 0.1% Of Ideas I've Stumbled Upon On The Internet Aug 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:35 Shaan Puri You know, impressive, or if you had to bet on five people in YC, it would have been like Sam Altman, the Collison's, and like Jess Maul was one of the five.

10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo Jul 24, 2024 · 1 mention

Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman Jun 28, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 33:40 Shaan Puri I don't know if you remember this, but when the open AI drama was going on, when they fired Sam Altman, one of the things that came out was maybe they have AGI internally and everyone's like, no, they probably don't have AGI internally,… 4 times in the scene

This $50M/Yr Side Hustle Is On Track To Make $1 Billion By 2030 Jun 3, 2024 · 1 mention

How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell May 24, 2024 · 2 mentions

The 5 Most Interesting Billionaires Alive... May 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:55 Shaan Puri And in an interview, Zuck was talking to Sam Altman and he even said, he's like,

Data Backed Businesses Guaranteed To Make +$1M From Day 1 Apr 17, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 18:01 Jeremy Giffon Um, uh, you know, Sam Altman was this to Paul Graham.
  • ▶ 33:00 Jeremy Giffon I, I, another, like, archetype I have of this is, like, you can divide the world into the, um, into the, you know, the Arnold Schwarzenegger kind of type, and then maybe the, the Sam Altman type, and it's not to say that Sam Altman doesn't… 3 times in the scene

Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman Mar 8, 2024 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Shaan Puri Versus Sam Altman lawsuit.
  • ▶ 22:55 Sam Parr and I was like, wait, why is Sam Altman advocating for UBI? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:44 Shaan Puri So Elon Musk sued Sam Altman, and there's probably, there's a good analysis out there about this lawsuit, but I want to point out a couple of things. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:17 Shaan Puri And so it was like, okay, well, uh, Sam and Greg email Elon saying, hey, it's getting really hard to recruit.
  • ▶ 57:46 Sam Parr And him saying that in a calm, like, fatherly voice to me, that's, like, been the one thing that I've, I've been thinking about of, like, Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene

3 Niche Business Ideas We Thought Would Fail… But Actually Crushed It Feb 16, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:59 Sam Parr And also Sam Altman raised the equivalent of America's GDP, like five trillion dollars for whatever, like whenever I see this, these numbers, I'm like, that just means nothing to me. 2 times in the scene

From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526) Dec 4, 2023 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:40 Shaan Puri and she was at YC, put her on the very short list of a couple of people with Sam Altman and a few others as the most impressive people, the people that he thought 30 years from now will have done, done the most and gone the furthest.
  • ▶ 8:13 Shaan Puri And then, you know, then you have AI and Sam Altman and that's like, you know, the kind of cutting edge science do hard stuff movement. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:06:38 Jess Mah And I have, you know, Drew from Dropbox and Sam Altman coming to speak to me and these like,
  • ▶ 1:07:14 Shaan Puri Uh, Sam Altman is now like this extremely interesting public character. 4 times in the scene

3 Business Ideas You Should Start in 2024 (ft. Pomp) (#524) Nov 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:54 Shaan Puri I had a good, uh, joke that I didn't get to do the other day when Sam Altman was in the news, and then, like, it's like Jack Altman comes out and says something, and then Max Altman comes out and says something, and then his sister Annie…

My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522) Nov 24, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:24 Shaan Puri And those two things are not going to line up and you need, um, like Sam Altman, uh, you know, he's, he's on the news right now and he said something great about negotiation.

If I Could Start Over Again, This Is What I’d Do To Get Rich - Scott Galloway Oct 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:10 Sam Parr I always think it's interesting when people like Sam Altman, like these geniuses who like see everything, take it, and he's been like, this is the drug I take. 2 times in the scene

Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508) Oct 17, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:03:46 Shaan Puri Like, and I just remembered the open AI example, by the way, Sam Altman, president of YC, right? 2 times in the scene

Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438) Mar 30, 2023 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 1:43 Sam Parr Did, did you see, I want to talk about your topics, but really quick, did you see, did you guys see this, that, so Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:16 Dharmesh Shah And Sam Altman has talked about this.
  • ▶ 19:17 Sam Parr Or are you, um, like, you know, it's, it's easy to read the articles where they, where people are freaking out and Sam Altman like was on Lex Friedman's podcast recently 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:40 Dharmesh Shah Um, so one of the big announcements that happened while I was there at the Sequoia event that Sam Altman dropped is that, you know, ChatGPT has taken off in a big way.
  • ▶ 57:43 Dharmesh Shah He tells the entire story of how he came across Elm Altman and open AI and the challenge he put the

The 2022 Milly Awards (#401) Dec 29, 2022 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 24:17 Sam Parr You're going to tell me that, that dude, when you have Elon Musk and Sam Altman and ten billion dollars, that's not a breakout company. 11 times in the scene

The Secret to Being Great | My First Million #199 Jul 14, 2021 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 28:51 Sam Parr There's this New Yorker article written in 2014 about Sam Altman. 10 times in the scene

Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197 Jul 7, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:39 Dharmesh Shah And I talked to, you know, Sal Maltman, the CEO, Brian, I had a, he's gracious enough to give us some time to, it's like, okay, well, like, where is this headed? 2 times in the scene
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