OpenAI

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18 statements across 15 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 15 people on the record · first statement Jul 22, 2024 by Shubham Mishra · said 122 times in 40 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jul 22, 2024
Insight
Products without moats inevitably plateau, even with strong go-to-market strategies
“There is a limit to which you can scale a product, which doesn't have a moat. GTM can be a moat, but product also has to have a moat. Otherwise, It can scale to a level, then it flattens out.”
Shubham Mishra Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 35:06 In 2019, he went all-in on AI, grew to $3M ARR in 2 years—then to $85M ARR in 5. | Shubham Mishra... · PMF Show
Sep 9, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Frosst: RLHF data efficiency surprised everyone in AI except OpenAI
“I think that caught pretty much everybody, but the people in OpenAI by surprise was that you can have a relatively small number of examples from people, fine tune the model on that, and then it's a lot easier to work with.”
Nick Frosst Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 4:14 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
May 8, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kuveke: Mira Murati raising $2B seed at a $10B valuation
“Mira, the other co-founder of OpenAI is raising a two billion dollar seed round at a ten billion dollar valuation. She's not offering the rules of the engagement are that she has more, more board votes than everyone combined on the board plus one.”
Jack Kuveke May 8, 2025 ▶ 28:18 Adam Neumann Returns, SV Spies, AI Robots Rise | April Startup News w/ Jack Kuveke · PMF Show
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Opinion
Dearsley: GPT-4o expanded voice AI awareness rather than displacing Vapi
“GPT-Foro just, like, Grew everyone's awareness that voice was important. It didn't really like displace us by any means. It just made it more popular.”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 31:27 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
Jul 17, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Maples: Avoided many AI investments due to competitor and OpenAI risks
“For that reason, I haven't made a lot of AI investments. And so I've seen a lot of AI ideas where I'm like, I totally see the inflection. I can totally see why people are going to love this product. I just don't know why there won't be 10 just like it, or I do…”
Mike Maples Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 48:42 Mike Maples: Your Startup Idea Isn’t Crazy Enough—And it's holding you back | Mike Maples, Founde... · PMF Show
Aug 18, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Lingelbach: OpenAI and Anthropic are expanding into vertical application providers
“It seems like OpenAI and, like, Anthropic especially are, like, Pushing out of just being model providers into being vertical providers.”
Michael Lingelbach Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 23:12 His Video AI app hit $10M+ ARR in Months—with 0 outbound sales. | Michael Lingelbach, Founder of ... · PMF Show
Oct 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2030
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…”
Alex Sherman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 39:58 He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex S... · PMF Show
Dec 4, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mashrabov: OpenAI free-to-paid conversion ratio is 5% to 6%
“When I look at like free to paid ratio for open AI, even outside of India and Southeast Asia, it is, we still talk about five, six percent. It's very similar to any B to C SaaS really.”
Alex Mashrabov Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 15:02 He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Found... · PMF Show
Dec 4, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Mashrabov: OpenAI is subsidizing media generation to win consumer AI
“Frankly speaking, is OpenAI clearly want to take these markets. There is no doubt about that. OpenAI want to be a winner. They are willing to subsidize rich generations.”
Alex Mashrabov Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 28:27 He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Found... · PMF Show
Dec 4, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Mashrabov: No startup besides OpenAI and Anthropic can win in foundation models
“I think it's very difficult for me to see Any other company than OpenAI and Anthropic are being competitive in the foundational model space. It's just very, very difficult for a startup to be a foundation model company. I don't want to say anything bad about c…”
Alex Mashrabov Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 43:42 He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Found... · PMF Show
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Parekh: Airflow Logged 300M+ Downloads and 80K+ Company Users Including OpenAI
“Airflow has downloaded over three hundred million times last year, and there's 80,000 plus companies using it. And that includes everyone from Siege State Startups to The biggest banks in the world to companies like OpenAI and Anthropic that are building incre…”
Viraj Parekh Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 40:26 He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Insight
Englander: Foundation models are not an existential risk to vertical AI startups
“Our risk is, as I mentioned just then, is like, we may not have product market fit tomorrow morning. And that's not based on, like, OpenAI or Anthropical. It's just based on the speed that Verticalize application is shipping great products. So really, our only…”
Chaz Englander Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 48:23 How I grew my AI startup to $3M ARR in 3 months. | Chaz Englander, Founder of ModelML · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Opinion
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…”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 50:37 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
d'Sa: OpenAI secretly built Voice Mode on LiveKit via a personal Gmail
“I get an email from open AI and it's like, Hey, so we signed up for a live kit cloud in secret with a personal Gmail address three weeks ago, and we've built this voice interface, like on top of you guys. And now we're like fans and we want to like talk commer…”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 38:19 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Mar 19, 2026
Assertion Supported
Haroun: Acquired legal services provider served OpenAI, Stripe, and Citibank
“It's a legal services company. They have legal professionals who are acting as an extension of the in-house teams of OpenAI, Stripe, Citibank.”
Omar Haroun Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 39:24 How he grew his AI startup from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months. | Omar Haroun, Co-Founder of Eudia · PMF Show
Apr 9, 2026 negative
Insight
Kuruvilla: AI startups are one OpenAI or Anthropic release away from dying
“I think that time or that phase of products probably is gone right now because now you have to find your relevancy every day. You know, you're like one deployment of open AI or like one anthropic release away from dying. So you cannot sit back at the laurels o…”
Maju Kuruvi Apr 9, 2026 ▶ 37:40 He ran Prime fulfillment for Amazon—then raised $20M to replace e-commerce with AI. | Maju Kuruvi... · PMF Show
Apr 20, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Granet: Bland AI avoids OpenAI and Anthropic, building proprietary stack
“We don't use open AI, Anthropic, anybody else. So we're entirely built from the ground up.”
Isaiah Granet Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 6:05 180 VCs rejected him—then a $60K billboard got him to $2M ARR in 4 months. | Isaiah Granet, CEO o... · PMF Show
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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 …”
Alex Halliday Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 24:55 He built for 2 years before raising a dollar—then hit $13M ARR and a $40M Series B. | Alex Hallid... · PMF Show
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