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Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger's Greatest Lessons · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:36 Molly O'Shea I have a weird personality, and sometimes I'm, like, super sarcastic, and then I pretend I don't know that Jack Altman is related to Sam Altman, and it goes viral.

Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 27, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 8:14 Michael Mignano I think the difference of what we're seeing here is kind of the ambition of Sam Altman and the speed and the kind of ruthlessness, and that's a, that's a compliment to which his organization can move and can move fast.
  • ▶ 26:08 Michael Mignano Sam actually even hinted to this in his blog post, sort of hinted that there's going to be a new model where they're compensating creators for their likeness, their name and likeness. 7 times in the scene

Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:16 Philip Clark I think Sam and Ilya and Greg and everyone else at the company worked on this project for seven, eight years before others realized how valuable it was. 2 times in the scene

How Ryan Serhant Sold $20B in Real Estate with Media & AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:28 Ryan Serhant So it was like me and Sam Altman and all these other people at Open.ai only who were making, and Jake Paul randomly, um, and making these random videos.

Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:43 Jonathan Siddharth You gotta solve energy, and you gotta build data centers, and you see what Elon's doing with his projects, you see what Sam Altman and OpenAI are doing, you see what Meta's doing.

Inside Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 12, 2025 · 12 mentions

Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 8, 2025 · 1 mention

Meme Lord CEO Raises $22.5M Series A for Hello Patient · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 4, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:47 Alex Cohen And the latest video to have gone viral with a bit of that, like, cringe element is the Sam Altman, Johnny Ive, IO announcement video, and so we, we originally were not going to do it. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:55 Alex Cohen Um, we have a pretty deep partnership with OpenAI, like they, at their core, um, I guess I'm Sam right now, but we have a partnership with ourselves.
  • ▶ 52:58 Molly O'Shea Okay, what device do you think that Johnny Ive and Sam Altman will announce?

Apple in China: Tim Cook’s $275B Pledge | Patrick McGee · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 1, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:09 Patrick McGee Um, so let me first just say something, um, nice before I, I maybe go the other way, which is just that Sam Altman in terms of his products over the last three, four years have blown my mind and probably blown your mind and everyone's mind. 3 times in the scene

Understanding OpenAI’s $500B Valuation · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 27, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 14:25 Molly O'Shea Turned off GPT-IV, and that caused a lot of unrest with users, and there was a story that really came to surface, and Sam wrote a tweet about this, but it was really clear people had parasocial relationships with the chat itself, and so…
  • ▶ 24:25 Molly O'Shea But my biggest observation, what I thought was pretty interesting out of this was Sam actually took action really fast. 5 times in the scene

Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | AIUC · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:04 Rune Kvist You might have seen OpenAI launch their chat GPT agent, and Sam Oldman on the stage puts out a big caveat, like, don't use it for anything important.
  • ▶ 2:51 Rune Kvist You might have seen actually yesterday, OpenAI launched their chat GPT agent, and Sam Oldman on the stage puts out a big caveat, like, don't use it for anything important.

How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 27, 2025 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 0:32 Molly O'Shea You recently had Sam Altman on your pod. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:59 Molly O'Shea You've had Aaron Levy of Box, Adam Guild of Owner, and then you've also had someone named Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:04 Molly O'Shea OpenAI just started one, Stripe just started one, you have one, I think Sam started one, Mark has one, Turpentine.
  • ▶ 22:33 Jack Altman My instinct is that I want to be really optimistic right now, because I do believe that we're in a super cycle, and I do believe that this is like, you know, Sam called it a scientific discovery, and I do believe that, and that this like a…
  • ▶ 33:53 Molly O'Shea You recently had Sam Altman on your pod. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:47 Molly O'Shea From your conversation with Sam, like more seriously, you guys were talking about AI and its impact and what, what were the biggest impacts that you guys pulled?
  • ▶ 38:22 Molly O'Shea It sounded like Sam was also really excited about the scientific impact of it all.

Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:29 Roy Lee Me versus Elon versus Sam.
  • ▶ 8:01 Roy Lee All companies will converge into one, two, maybe three super companies, and end of the line in maybe 50 years, it'll be me versus Elon versus Sam, and we're all going to be competing for the title of, uh, conqueror of the universe.
  • ▶ 28:33 Roy Lee They say all these things, and when you fail, you become Sam Bankman Freed, and when you win, you become Elon Musk, Sam Altman. 3 times in the scene

How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:31 Packy McCormick Uh, but having studied fusion, I was still kind of like, I'm so glad that Sam Altman and Bill Gates and, like, billionaires are burning their own money on fire trying to get us to fusion because, like, this is not an investable

How Emergence Capital Bet Early on Zoom, Salesforce, Veeva—& Now Together.ai · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:52 Yaz El-Baba And I think this, this new trend that people are talking about, like, I forget what it was, Sam Altman saying like, oh, there's gonna be a billion dollar company with one person.
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