ChatGPT
also referred to as: chat gpt
includes ChatGPT Operator, ChatGPT Pro, ChatGPT Atlas, ChatGPT 4o, ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Voice, ChatGPT O1
99 statements across 66 episodes · 67 bullish · 20 bearish · 37 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2022 by Michael Karnjanaprakorn · said 796 times in 191 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Greg Isenberg (293), Jonathan Courtney (20), Riley Brown (18), Cody Schneider (16), Samuel Thompson (13), Nicolas Cole (12), Guillermo Rauch (12), James (The Boring Marketer) (11)
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2026 139 mentions in 45 episodes 3 per episode
- I Spent $289 So AI Could Build My Business
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- The $1,000/hour Solo AI business (Full Course)
- WebMCP: Let AI Agents pay you money
- How I Use Clawdbot to Run My Business and Life 24/7
- 37 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 403 mentions in 79 episodes 5 per episode
- I built an AI startup in 65 minutes (using ChatGPT, Leonardo AI, Kling AI, ElevenLabs)
- The Golden Age of AI is happening right now (Here's Why)
- How I use Google Veo3 to create viral videos (3M views in 48 hrs)
- Making $2,800/day with AI Design Agents (Runway + Midjourney)
- I Built an Entire App with OpenAI's Codex and 8 AI Agent Employees
- How I Use AI & Reddit to Find $1M+ Startup Ideas (FULL Blueprint)
- How I Design Apps 10x Better (Free Course)
- Vercel's CEO Shares 5 AI Startup Ideas So Good You’ll Quit Your Job
- 71 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 152 mentions in 45 episodes 3 per episode
- Inside the Brain of a 17-Year-Old $1M/Month AI Founder
- 5 game-changing startup ideas from a life hacking genius
- Build a high traffic startup using AI, Webflow and Zapier
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- Cursor AI tutorial for beginners
- How this viral AI App is making $190,000/month
- "Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 22-Year-Old who built Multiple Viral Products
- How To Create Ai Agents From Scratch (CrewAI, Zapier, Cursor)
- 37 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 98 mentions in 20 episodes 5 per episode
- Trung Phan on The Hustle, ChatGPT, and TikTok
- From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
- Everything I learned this week
- The Secret Strategies of Top DTC Brands with Nik Sharma
- The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
- How To Make MILLIONS As A Faceless YouTuber | Dru Riley
- Roberto Nickson Grew 400K+ Followers In 100 Days: Here's How
- Building a YouTube Empire: Unveiling the Ultimate Growth Hacks
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first
Dec 8, 2022 bullish
Mar 9, 2023 positive
Mar 16, 2023 positive
Isenberg: Proofreading AI output makes claiming human authorship ethically acceptable
“I think if the bot makes the decision to like send the email, then to me, the ethics, the ethical thing to do is to be like, this was sent by a bot. But if David Spinks is behind, you know, chat GPT in the sense that he put it, you put, you prompted it, you lo…”
Mar 16, 2023 positive
Mar 16, 2023 bullish
Spinks: ChatGPT writes better community moderation responses than I do
“I had ChatGPT respond to someone who made, like, a vulgar comment in the community, and it was really good. Like, it was maybe better than what I would have written to moderate a community when a member violates the rules and says something offensive.”
Mar 16, 2023 neutral
Mar 23, 2023 negative
Mar 23, 2023 positive
Greathouse Fall: ChatGPT generates unique business ideas from identical HustleGPT prompts
“When you prompt the bot you know, with pretty much my original prompt verbatim, it's giving different ideas for everyone who approaches it, which I think is really interesting. It's not just spitting back the same thing over and over.”
Mar 23, 2023 bearish
Greathouse Fall: AI will not replace advertising copywriters due to editing needs
“This thing is not going to, you know, replace your advertising copywriter. It's not going to place your content writer. It's not going to place. Any of these things that people are so worried about because of the need for human kind of nudging and course corre…”
Apr 27, 2023 negative
May 18, 2023 bearish
Nickson: Building on ChatGPT carries excessive platform risk
“ChatGPT, I feel like every update, it gets neutered a little more and more and more and more. So like, as a builder, I feel a little bit, I don't know if I'd want to build on ChatGPT, right? They have too much leverage. It's too much platform risk.”
Nov 30, 2023
PDF AI founders made hundreds of thousands monthly before OpenAI's native update
“A few of the PDFAI guys who are building in that space. We're pretty pissed to put it lightly about what happened with the recent updates to chat GPT. Cause they were making tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.”
Dec 21, 2023 bearish
Isenberg: Productized Services Will Fall Flat as AI Tools Replace Service Providers
“And I think that's where a lot of productized services are going to fall flat. Is there going to be a service that of course provides some value, but I think that in an AI generated world, like people are looking for partners, not service providers because ser…”
Jan 11, 2024 positive
Isenberg: Specialized niche AI interfaces will thrive against generalists like ChatGPT
“Like there's certain things that chat GPT will not be able to be amazing at. So the interface for chatting with the PDF is, is specific to this use case. So I think more niche specific use cases, interfaces are really interesting.”
May 12, 2024 positive
Isenberg: ChatGPT wrapper success depends entirely on marketing and brand, not product
“The beauty is you don't need, it doesn't need to be special from like a product perspective. It's just a mark. It's completely marketing. And what matters in chat GPT rappers is really just like the brand. Is this something that people are going to tell their …”
May 15, 2024 bullish
Isenberg: AI will win information search, but humans will dominate education
“I think ChatGPT and its competitors, when it comes to like figuring out an answer and getting data on a question, it's only getting better and better and they're going to win. When it comes to education and experiences, that's where people will prevail.”
Aug 5, 2024 negative
Postma argues mainstream AI adoption requires skeuomorphic interfaces mimicking real-world workflows
“If you want to get products to be adopted, you need to make it feel like the real world, right? Basically how iPhone started with their interface notes and looked like notes. You need to make it feel right. So. These people, they're not going to use ChatGPT to…”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Isenberg: AI search engines like ChatGPT will embed interactive tools
“My prediction is tools will be embedded within a lot of these platforms.
So
Right now when you use perplexity or use ChatGPT, really what you're getting back is mostly texts. You know, sometimes you're getting some links or some images and over time what you'r…”
Aug 7, 2024 bearish
Louis-Lucas: ChatGPT plugins and Custom GPTs have been a failure
“They did that with plugins and then they did that with custom GPTs and I have no numbers to support what I'm going to say, but it seems to me that it's, it is a failure and that no, no, no one is, you have slight you have small use cases when you will use a cu…”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Louis-Lucas: Action-based searches will stay on Google, not ChatGPT
“One thing that I know for sure is that it's going to be less true for requests that are based on an action. Like if you want, if you are looking for a tool to compress a video or to download the video from LinkedIn, it's very unlikely to me that you're going t…”
Aug 12, 2024 positive
Sep 30, 2024 negative
Oct 1, 2024 positive
Oct 14, 2024 negative
Oct 14, 2024 bearish
Oct 14, 2024 positive
Isenberg: Claude is currently 30% better than ChatGPT
“No it's honestly, 30% better. Like, every answer you get is 30% better. So, the thing is, ChatGPT was better, and then Clode recently caught up. Now ChatGPT is getting better, but right now, as we're recording this, Clode is where you want to be.”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Dec 2, 2024 positive
GuiltyChef.com generates all recipe pages and images entirely via AI
“Every single page you're seeing here is completely generated automatically using AI down to the image. You know, and so some of them you can obviously tell it's an AI-generated image, some of them not so much but description, the prep time, cook time, ingredie…”
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Dec 11, 2024 positive
Yadegari: AI apps with high latency should use background loading
“What a lot of apps do is they bring you to an analyzing screen where it loads, and you just wait on the screen. I honestly hate this, and especially for something that can take 30 to 60 seconds, depending on how complex your prompt is, and when you're waiting …”
Dec 28, 2024 positive
Moura: Role framing in system prompts significantly changes LLM agent output
“Because these agents, they're kind of like impersonating roles. You do get different behaviors depending on, you do get different behaviors depending on how you give them like a different role. So you can actually replicate this on ChatGPT. Like if you ask Cha…”
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Fernando: GPT-4o natively understands audio and tone, unlike DeepSeek R1
“So one thing I just learned very recently about GPT-IV and ChatGPT's Omni models is the fact that this model's breakthrough, a little bit different than R-I, is the fact that it can actually understand audio and tone and all these extra implications that we do…”
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Feb 5, 2025 positive
Greg Isenberg: Creators should use Leonardo AI instead of ChatGPT for images
“Like, they do one prompt on ChatGPT, they get this, they're like, I can't do that, and they don't realize that their prompt is wrong, and that they're using the wrong product. They should be using Leonardo, not, not ChatGPT, Foro.”
Feb 12, 2025 negative
Feb 19, 2025 positive
Feb 19, 2025 positive
Feb 19, 2025 positive
Feb 24, 2025 negative
Knapp: ChatGPT generates bland 'oatmeal' ideas compared to weird human concepts
“The way chat GPT looks at the world, it just tends to be like kind of the oatmeal version of things. And I'm so much more interested in like the opinionated, like weird versions of things that people come up with. I still feel like for weirdness, Humans have l…”
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Mar 24, 2025 bearish
Wilkinson: ChatGPT will eliminate software middlemen by building tools on demand
“For all tools basically all middlemen businesses are gone. And I believe fundamentally that we are all going to go to the search bar and the new search bar is ChatGPT and you're going to query it and ChatGPT will just build whatever you need or it'll hook into…”
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Isenberg: Manus AI feels more powerful than ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude
“What are you noticing about Manus is it feels like just a little more horsepower than chat GPT, a little more horsepower than perplexity, a little more horsepower than Claude. So it's because of this like multi-agent browsing sort of capabilities, I think”
Apr 2, 2025 neutral
AI ad remixing is ethical because agencies already copy competitor templates
“The way that most of these companies work is they are finding inspiration ads. There's like 50 companies that do this. They provide you inspiration ads, or they're getting templates, which are recreated ads in Figma files or Canva files. There's companies that…”
Apr 2, 2025 bullish
Apr 2, 2025 positive
Pozel: Sora has looser policy guidelines and better photorealism than ChatGPT
“Another really cool thing is I think Sora is better at it's, it has less strict policy guidelines and it's better at photo, photo realism. I don't actually understand why that's the case considering they probably use the same underlying models, but I think tha…”
Apr 2, 2025 bullish
API access will let marketers generate 100 ad variants in five minutes
“And when the API becomes generally available, this is going to be trivial. It's literally going to be like, This is your inspiration or like reference ad. These are all the different audiences, just like boom, boom, boom, smash them out and you'll have a hundr…”
Apr 9, 2025 bullish
Apr 18, 2025 neutral
Apr 18, 2025 positive
Conley: Use Claude or ChatGPT to Audit Prompts Before AI Coding
“Something that I've been finding super helpful recently is going to a ChatGBT or Claude, whatever your favorite one is, and explaining your idea to it first, and then saying, does this sound right? Is there anything that I'm missing? And like talking to it alm…”
Apr 18, 2025 negative
May 5, 2025 positive
Isenberg: Use Claude or ChatGPT to write v0.dev prompts for you
“See, you don't even need to know how to prompt really well here, right? Like, there's so many guides around how do you get the most out of v-zero, for example, but it's like, just ask Claude or ask ChatGPT how to do the best prompting. Like, it will tell you h…”
May 12, 2025 bullish
Courtney: Reverse-engineer images with ChatGPT for photorealistic Facebook ads
“If I just ask ChatGPT to reverse engineer the image and tell me exactly the prompt it would take to get that exact look and feel, and then use that when I'm making Facebook ads, it's completely different thing. It goes from like, you know, a person holding a p…”
May 12, 2025 positive
Courtney: AJ&Smart requires staff to keep AI tools open full-time
“Well, you know, eight weeks from now, we will launch our first, like, we will have launched our first funnel, which is every team member at AJ and Smart having the ChatGPT tab, Claude tab, whatever else they're using, open the entire time as like an internal r…”
May 12, 2025 positive
Isenberg: Founders must master AI tasks personally before delegating to teams
“You shouldn't tell your team to do anything until you understand it. So, The thing that you should do is Map out all the boring, repetitive tasks that people do in your business from, by each function, and then try to do those tasks yourself.”
May 14, 2025 positive
Integrating marketing tools directly inside Claude eliminates context switching
“Like, you know, the challenge here for a lot of marketers using these tools is that they're switching between like, you know, 10 different things. Like their tabs open on their browser. Like, you know, they've got ChatGPT, they've got Claude, they've got maybe…”
May 19, 2025 neutral
Smith: Custom GPTs require specialized proprietary data to monetize
“In order for a custom GPT to, I think, be able to monetize, you do need some sort of, ah, specialized data that other people don't have. Because if that same thing can be done through ChatGPT or Claude, right, you don't have a business.”
May 21, 2025 neutral
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Isenberg: Free Public Tools Boost Visibility in ChatGPT Recommendations
“So, meaning, you know, chat GPT when people are You know, asking chat GPT for, you know, product recommendations and stuff like that, you're more likely to come up if you have public facing tools either on your website or linked linked to your website.”
Jun 11, 2025 positive
Jun 13, 2025 bullish
Jun 13, 2025 bullish
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Isenberg: GenSpark is not a ChatGPT killer, but a valuable tool addition
“My gut take on GenSpark is, you know, is it the madness killer? Is it the ChatDBT killer? No. But is it interesting and something that you want to put as a part of, like, your cocktail of different tools that you're using to get a diverse opinion on a particul…”
Jul 9, 2025 bullish
Isenberg: Claude is essential because Sonnet and Opus act as marketing agents
“But for Vibe Marketing specifically, Clode is what you need to use. And why do you need to use it is a few reasons. One is, Sonnet Four and Opus are agents, and you need agents to complete tasks for you in Vibe Marketing.”
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Aug 4, 2025 bullish
Sep 8, 2025 positive
Rowan Cheung Uses ChatGPT Voice While Reading To Boost Concept Retention
“So for example, I use ChatGPT a lot or ChatGPT voice when I'm reading. So I'll just have it open next to me. And whenever there's a topic I don't really understand, I'll just ask it, oh, hey, what does this mean? And I'll go deeper with it before I move on to …”
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Schneider: Tally's ChatGPT referral traffic plummeted after a model update
“A great example of this is the Tally founder has this graph where it's like, absolute liftoff, right? It's going crazy. GPT-V drops, they, like, it changes the entire search algorithm within ChatGPT, and their referral from that, their, like, basically referra…”
Sep 12, 2025 bullish
Sep 12, 2025
Sep 12, 2025
Schneider: ChatGPT and Perplexity rely on Google's index instead of crawling
“ChatGPT and OpenAI and Perplexity, like, they're all built on the back of this, like, search engine Google, right? Google has spent the last, whatever, 30 years or 25 years basically indexing the entire, like, internet. Imagine, like, Perplexity and ChatGPT, w…”
Oct 4, 2025 positive
Oct 6, 2025 neutral
Oct 6, 2025 positive
Koe: Reverse-engineers high-performing content into LLM meta-prompts
“Anything that I like and want to incorporate into my work, I will ask Claude or ChatGPT to break it down, teach me how to do it. I will take that as if it were a, an SOP or just a set of instructions. Then I will take a prompt that helps me create prompts, sen…”
Oct 20, 2025 bullish
Courtney: Physical curation gains massive value as ChatGPT commoditizes digital knowledge
“And also, especially now that you can essentially generate all of that stuff on ChatGPT and knowledge is becoming less and less valuable. The ability to have something curated for you physically, in my opinion, is becoming more and more valuable.”
Oct 22, 2025 negative
Oct 29, 2025 bullish
Rauch: Dedicated interfaces and URLs let startups outcompete AI giants
“What I find is that some products are so important or some capabilities are so important that they always deserve their unique entry point. Their unique URL, their unique interface dedicated to that problem, and you might actually outcompete the giants in thin…”
Nov 21, 2025 bullish
Nov 24, 2025 positive
Farroki: Contextual prompt chips directly boost AI app engagement and proper usage
“These details, like, it does actually, not even for the feeling, it has a direct impact on the usage. Like, people will probably click these things, and there's just a higher chance that they'll, they'll use it more properly if you have this.”
Nov 24, 2025 positive
Farroki: ChatGPT beats Google Gemini for creating initial app mascots
“It might surprise people, but I've found also that for coming up with novel mascots, chat CPT is actually better than Gemini, better than nano banana from Google. I think nano banana is very good if you want to make iteration. So when you have the base mascot,…”
Nov 24, 2025 positive
Farroki: Hire human artists for initial mascot concept before generating AI iterations
“My pro tip for anyone who's doing this is actually to bring on or hire an actual artist to generate the first version or some sort of concept, and then use that and feed it into ChatGPT or whatever you're using to generate as a reference and say, hey, can you …”
Dec 8, 2025 bullish
Isenberg: AI search traffic converts 4x to 5x better than Google
“I think you can expect at least four to five X multiple, you know, on conversion, which is crazy, but it makes sense if you think about it because you're, When you Google something, you have, you know, a thousand blue links that you can go and click, but when …”
Jan 16, 2026
Feb 16, 2026 bullish
Chu: LLMs dominate discovery, but directories capture high-stakes decision-making
“What I think ChatGPT perplexity and all these other LLMs do really well is they help you discover things or get more information on the thing. But by the time someone's on a directory, I think they're in the decision-making phase and with any more complex deci…”
Feb 23, 2026 negative
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Schneider: AI tools must fit into any agent harness seamlessly
“You're basically making your agent so that, or whatever it is your tooling is so that it fits into any harness. So whether you're working from cloud iOS or chat GPT desktop or cloud code on, you know, in your terminal or like cursor or, you know, even the UI i…”
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Gaskill: Manual agent memory setup is superior to automatic chat memory
“And with agents, you have to set up memory and control exactly what you give it. And I think that's actually a benefit, not a limitation, because what happens is if you're using ChatGPT and it's got the auto memory, you're having conversations about three diff…”
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Brown: OpenAI's Codex is the most powerful interface for AI agents
“People are going to learn how to use the best interface to use AI agents, in my opinion. I think Codex by OpenAI, and that means if you have a ChatGPT subscription, you have access to Codex, which I think is the most powerful way to use AI agents”
Jun 13, 2026 positive
Jul 15, 2026 neutral
Aug 5, 2026 negative
Schneider: Use LLMs to write CPU software, don't burn tokens running tasks
“You should not be paying Anthropic. You should not be paying Chad CPT to do an API call. You should be paying them to make the software that uses CPU to do the API call. Why are you paying this tax on tokens every time that you're trying to do this marketing a…”
Aug 21, 2026 positive
Howell: Visual Agent Avatars Reduce Cognitive Switching Costs Over Text Interfaces
“Color and shape is all the human brain needs to differentiate something. So you can easily recognize all your different little teammates here versus like a grade, just like a gray thread in chat GPT or Claude. It's just, I find this tool saves you so much on s…”
Aug 21, 2026 bullish
Isenberg: AI engines like ChatGPT and Google need curated directories
“In an AI world, we actually need directories more than ever because there's just too much information. So when it's curated it's helpful. Also the whole like SEO game is changing right now. Like what's being, you know, like People are going to chat GPT, and th…”
Aug 31, 2026 negative
Isenberg: Ad-hoc AI chats fail because models restart without accumulated context
“The problem it's going to be solving is that most people use AI in these random chats. So they'll open up a ChatGPT or Claude, Gemini, they'll ask for 10 posts, and maybe they'll copy and, you know, copy one into a doc that they like, and then the work just di…”