Sam Altman
3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 24, 2023 by Kevin Scott · said 36 times in 25 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sarah Guo (8), Brian Halligan (7), Sal Khan (2), Kevin Scott (2), Eric Mitchell (2), Elad Gil (2), Brendan Foody (2), Tengyu Ma (1)
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2026 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong
- The Story Behind Cerebras’ $63 Billion IPO with Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman
- Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
- Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
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2025 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 113 | With OpenAI's Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie
- No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody
- No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
- No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
- No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
- No Priors Ep. 109 | With Sarah and Elad
- No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
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2024 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan
- No Priors Ep. 63 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
- No Priors Ep. 67 | With Voyage AI Co-Founder and CEO
- No Priors Ep. 46 | Best of 2023 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
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2023 16 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 36 | With Hubspot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan
- No Priors Ep. 18 | With Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft
- No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman
- No Priors Ep. 42 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 34 | With Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder and CEO Jason Kelly
- No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan (Japanese Version)
- No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan
- No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
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Everything said about Sam Altman, oldest first
May 24, 2023 bullish
Oct 12, 2023 negative
Halligan: Mass AI content creation won't work for LLM discovery
“One of the things that's not going to work is using AI to just create tons of content. I think Sam Altman and all the people building the other models are going to look at similar signals to Google. They're going to say how many links are into the site with th…”
May 1, 2025 positive
Mitchell: OpenAI plans to unify models and remove the ChatGPT switcher
“You know, I think for us, like unification of our models is something that, you know, Sam has talked about publicly that, you know, we have this big crazy model switcher in ChatGPT and there are a lot of choices and you know, we have a model that might be good…”