ChatGPT
also referred to as: chat gpt
includes ChatGPT Voice Mode
22 statements across 18 episodes · 10 bullish · 6 bearish · 17 people on the record · first statement Apr 8, 2024 by Dylan Fox · said 272 times in 65 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Pablo Srugo (104), Russ d’Sa (17), Jay Madheswaran (11), Alex Halliday (11), Soham Ganatra (9), Nick Frosst (9), Jon Noronha (8), Mark Hughes (7)
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2026 97 mentions in 19 episodes 5 per episode
- His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
- He built for 2 years before raising a dollar—then hit $13M ARR and a $40M Series B. | Alex Hallid... · PMF Show
- How I grew to $3M ARR in 6 months—& to a $1B valuation in 2 years. | Jay, Founder of Eve Legal · PMF Show
- He hit $1M ARR by sending 500,000 cold emails—then raised a $25M Series A in 6 days. | Mark Hughe... · PMF Show
- He churned 100% of his revenue on purpose—then grew 10x to $2M ARR in under 12 months. | Ali Khok... · PMF Show
- Fired almost everyone, kept 2 engineers—grew 12x, raised $30M Series A | Notch
- He ran Prime fulfillment for Amazon—then raised $20M to replace e-commerce with AI. | Maju Kuruvi... · PMF Show
- How he grew his AI startup from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months. | Omar Haroun, Co-Founder of Eudia · PMF Show
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 142 mentions in 38 episodes 4 per episode
- He quit his job, went all-in on AI agents—then grew to 100K users & a $30M Series A in a year. | ... · PMF Show
- He got rejected by 40 VCs & had 6 months of runway—2 years later, he raised $100M from a16z. | Ed... · PMF Show
- Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show
- He "kind of" had PMF for 8 years—until, after a rebuild, he raised $100M | Ben Alarie, Founder of... · PMF Show
- His Video AI app hit $10M+ ARR in Months—with 0 outbound sales. | Michael Lingelbach, Founder of ... · PMF Show
- He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex S... · PMF Show
- He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tana... · PMF Show
- At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza... · PMF Show
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 33 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
- He built Cohere into a $5.5B AI startup; How to Win in AI; & Why LLMs won't lead to AGI. | Nick F... · PMF Show
- YC said his idea "would never work". So he lived in his office for months—then raised $17M from a... · PMF Show
- He bet on voice AI when no one else did. Now he has $1M+ customers & $100M raised. | Ankit Jain, ... · PMF Show
- He sold AI robots to Walmart & raised $150M. His #1 advice to founders? "Trust your gut." | Danie... · PMF Show
- This solo founder bet on AI 7 years ago. Now he has 5,000 customers & $115M raised. | Dylan, Foun... · PMF Show
- For 5 years he struggled to get traction. Then with AI he grew 12x— in 1 year | Scott Stevenson, ... · PMF Show
- He quit his cozy Google job & ignored lean startup advice— then grew to $3M in 1 year. | Arvind J... · PMF Show
- Marty Krátký-Katz, Founder of Blockthrough (Bootstrapped to ~$100M exit) | How Never Giving Up Le... · PMF Show
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Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first
Apr 8, 2024 positive
Fox: RLHF and dialogue crossed the capability threshold that triggered LLM adoption
“It was the RLHF and the dialogue component of ChatGBT that triggered the takeoff. And that was the capability threshold. Like it was at that time that this capability threshold passed where now it is a prior, like LLMs are a priority for every organization.”
Apr 29, 2024 bullish
Jain: ChatGPT turned workplace search from a vitamin into a painkiller
“And this is where, you know, the transition happened from the vitamin to the painkiller. When people saw that if only I had something like ChatGPT inside my company or all of my company knowledge, people realized that, whoa, like that, no, this is something I …”
Aug 12, 2024 bearish
Theobald: Modern AI systems like ChatGPT possess literally zero intelligence
“These modern AI systems, there's no intelligence at all. I mean, which is why we call them artificial intelligence, but I think artificial intelligence is even a misnomer. It's confusing to people because they think that implies that there's actually some inte…”
Aug 12, 2024 bearish
Sep 9, 2024 neutral
Frosst: ChatGPT's capabilities were already possible with earlier LLMs
“Everything that you can do with a language model right after ChatGPT, you could pretty much do with a language model before. It just sucked. Sucked in that it was, like, really hard to do. You had to spend a lot of time prompt engineering, and it was, like, re…”
Dec 19, 2024
Dec 23, 2024 neutral
Jain: Narrow AI tasks fail to capture imaginations like open interfaces
“If you go after things that are extremely narrow, then people don't have their imaginations working
On Overdrive, right? I think when Google said we can automate reservations, it didn't spur everyone to go, how do I go apply this everywhere in the world? But …”
Feb 24, 2025 positive
Aug 18, 2025 negative
Aug 21, 2025 positive
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Soham Ganatra uploaded VC meeting transcripts to ChatGPT to refine his pitch
“I ended up, like practicing it with Chachapiti, which is, like, I don't know, like, something, like at least, like, most of my friends now do. It's, like, I had all my transcripts with all the VCs, In a single job jeopardy session. And I used to say, like, wha…”
Oct 6, 2025 bullish
Sherman: AI platforms like ChatGPT will inevitably introduce pay-to-play ads
“As soon as your brand and you recognize that their transaction has moved into the AI funnel and that a consumer can go to ChatGPT and say, Hey, I'm training for a marathon and 10 minutes later can buy a pair of sneakers within that same conversation on ChatGPT…”
Oct 20, 2025 negative
Alarie: Horizontal LLMs generate flawed tax answers from stale web sources
“More commonly, there will be some of the materials that those systems find even on the open web are at a date anachronistic. The law has changed. There's been some statutory amendment or there's some new case law or, you know, some law firm wrote some guidance…”
Nov 27, 2025 negative
Walker: Startup categories crowd far faster post-ChatGPT than pre-pandemic
“All of these categories are getting so crowded so quickly. And I think that is a real step change from what was going on certainly pre-pandemic, but even just pre-ChatGPT. It just feels very difficult to find a truly novel idea.”
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
d'Sa: B2B telephony AI market is several times larger than ChatGPT Voice
“If you take all of those different pockets of use cases together, It's like several, several times bigger than like chat GPT voice mode. So yeah, open AI is like a big customer and like has a lot of traffic, but at the same time, like the pie is a lot bigger t…”
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
Halliday: ChatGPT will select specialized tools over general web scraping for queries
“If Chaggy BT wants to know about congestion in Barcelona or the best restaurant to go in Copenhagen, they are going to start to form an opinion of which tool is the best for the job to answer that, which can give The model, the best quality response and allow …”
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Halliday: Brands must audit and participate in offsite platforms influencing ChatGPT
“And I think if you were a brand in that same situation, you would really think about what are the offsite, like not, not on your own domain. What are all the pages that influence the chat GPT for those priority questions as well? So we do a full audit of that.…”
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Halliday: Effective AEO requires structuring content to spoon-feed answers directly to LLMs
“There's best practices around structuring that content to make sure you're basically spoon feeding those answers to the models and preparing them for citation. Cause ultimately you want to be quoted a nice big paragraph in a chat GPT response saying on the pro…”
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Halliday: Sam Altman Convinced Him to Explore LLMs Pre-ChatGPT
“So I was Talking to Sam Altman before ChatGPT was a thing. And I said, like, hey, what's got you excited at the moment? Or some like vague question like that. And he, he's like, the AI stuff's getting really good. And I had no frame of reference for LLMs.”
Jun 1, 2026 neutral
Jul 6, 2026
Nicolaescu: Multi-player workflow software has far higher switching costs than single-player AI
“I think the single use scenario, like a single player scenario where I'm doing some work with some tools is very different when I'm working as part of a collection of people throughout the workflow and all of us use the same tool. And I think the latter is way…”