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Altman: VCs are very unlikely to actually help with company or product
“It's also a big part of what informs my view that it's very unlikely for VCs to help in ways that have to do with the actual company or, like, the product.”
Altman: AI will do tens of millions of US jobs by 2030
“I think AI will be doing tens of millions of jobs in the US by then that are currently being done by a person.”
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,…”
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…”
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…”
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…”
Altman: Companies are adopting AI and slowing hiring rather than firing workers
“I think a lot of what's happening right now is people are buying AI and then just hiring less.”
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…”
Altman: Fusion will have a bigger grid impact than fission
“On the nuclear side for that, you know, fusion and that getting properly figured out, I think is going to be the bigger impact for like grid level power.”
Altman: Running a company is dramatically harder than being an investor
“Like running a company is like dramatically harder than being an investor.”
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…”
Altman: Alt Capital is not investing in AI foundation model companies
“Well, I think the model companies will be like ridiculously big, but I don't, you know, from an alt perspective, you know, we're not investing in them.”
Altman: AI applications are the best venture investment opportunity in 2025
“Applications are just like the
Obvious place for me, both because of my background, but it's also what I think is like the best place for venture in 20, 25 to be investing because you're basically investing behind the fundamental belief that like AI is going t…”
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…”
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…”
Altman: Vertical AI enables low-tech industries to leapfrog software adoption
“We really like AI for sort of verticals that we think don't have, you know, as much technology in the first place where you can actually kind of leapfrog and get into, you know, a whole new echelon of productivity for like law firms, like we invested in Lagora…”
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…”
Altman: Middle-ground preparation for public speaking is the worst approach
“There's some people who, when they like do public speaking, they need to like prepare every word and practice. Sometimes there's some people who don't prepare at all. I actually think the worst is like the middle ground.”