Jack Altman
11 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 27, 2025 by Jack Altman · said 16 times in 11 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop.. · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- "Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- CEO Vlad Tenev on Robinhood's Record Year (+200%, ~$100B Market Cap) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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2025 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger's Greatest Lessons · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Why a16z Bet $15 Million on THIS Controversial Startup · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Why Bucky Moore Joined $30 Billion AUM Megafund Lightspeed · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Jun 27, 2025 bullish
Altman: Tech will see more acquisitions and high-value talent acqui-hires
“I just think, you know, and some of these acquisitions are for talent. And, you know, people paying whatever it takes to get the people that they think can unlock. You know, if you think that if you're meta and you think another trillion dollars can be unlocke…”
Jun 27, 2025 neutral
Altman: VC strategy matters less than backing special companies with meaningful ownership
“I'd also say that in general, I think in some ways, all of this strategy stuff is a little bit over determined. And on some level, you either invested in a great company with a meaningful size or you didn't. And I think that, you know, it's easy to get lost in…”
Jun 27, 2025 negative
Altman: Podcasts are not trustworthy and audiences should not trust individual hosts
“Podcasts aren't trustworthy, you know, I'm not trustworthy, I'm not claiming, I'm not, and I'm not, I'm also not, I'm just, but even a journalist, you know, even an individual Who is approaching podcasting in a more journalistic way? Like there's no reason to,…”
Jun 27, 2025 negative
Jun 27, 2025 neutral
Altman: Founders pick specific partners over fund size, saving mid-sized VCs
“The part I'm least sure about with the framing is that the middle shouldn't exist. That I don't know if I have clarity on that yet. The reason is I still think that a series A or B or C founder, for the most part, is going to pick a partner that they really li…”
Jun 27, 2025
Jack Altman: Board members outlast employees and hear things staff cannot
“It turns out though that what you're picking is somebody who's going to be there with you longer than most of your employees are going to be with you. And you're going to talk to them about stuff that you're not going to talk to your employees about because yo…”
Jun 27, 2025 bearish
Altman: Government is unlikely to pass national UBI before major problems emerge
“I think it will be very difficult to get the government to go to national UBI. So I don't expect that to happen sort of like in time, relatively speaking. Imagine tomorrow that getting put in place. Like, it's like, good luck. Like, it's extremely hard to make…”
Jun 27, 2025 bullish
Jun 27, 2025 neutral
Altman: Corporate employment of unproductive workers is already a form of UBI
“My hot take is there's already a reasonable amount of UBI, and it's just in the form of, you know, companies employing people that the job is either zero productive or counterproductive. And so like, that's actually like a form of it that, that already happens…”
Jun 27, 2025 positive
Altman: Podcasting allows questions that would be too awkward for coffee
“This is like a good excuse to get to learn from people who do venture, and I'll be able to ask them a bunch of questions that would be, Super awkward for me to ask them if I was like seeing them for coffee, but now because the cameras are on, I get to just lik…”
Jun 27, 2025 bullish
Altman: Mid-sized VC funds can succeed despite Andreessen's barbell theory
“Marc Andreessen mentioned that There's basically this barbell where you can either be really small, you can be really big. The middle is not there, but I had a guest recently that I haven't posted yet who, you know, we didn't talk numbers, but I would say is i…”