OpenAI
also referred to as: open ai
includes OpenAI Codex, OpenAI O1, OpenAI Agent Builder, OpenAI AgentKit, OpenAI O3, OpenAI Whisper, OpenAI O1 Mini, OpenAI Canvas, OpenAI Deep Research, OpenAI Playground, OpenAI API, OpenAI ChatGPT and 8 more
76 statements across 44 episodes · 52 bullish · 11 bearish · 26 people on the record · first statement Jan 5, 2023 by Greg Isenberg · said 670 times in 131 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Greg Isenberg (250), Riley Brown (47), Roberto Nickson (34), Dan Shipper (32), Ray Fernando (15), Trung Phan (10), Ryan Carson (9), Remy Gaskill (9)
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2026 299 mentions in 45 episodes 7 per episode
- Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
- GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
- OpenAI Codex: Build Apps That Work For You 24/7
- How I Use Skills + AI Agents to Run My Life
- Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
- The $1M+ Solo AI Agent Business (Full Course)
- Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
- Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3 Codex
- 37 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 262 mentions in 52 episodes 5 per episode
- ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
- I Built an Entire App with OpenAI's Codex and 8 AI Agent Employees
- The Complete AI Stack and Workflow for 100M+ Video Views
- OpenAI's NEW AI Agent Builder Replaces n8n & Zapier
- The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026
- DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know
- OpenAI Releases ChatGPT AI Agent Skills
- I Tested EVERY Hyped AI Tool - I ONLY Kept Using These
- 44 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 60 mentions in 22 episodes 3 per episode
- I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
- Essential AI Coding Fundamentals I wish I knew sooner (ChatGPT, Cursor AI, v0)
- How To Create Ai Agents From Scratch (CrewAI, Zapier, Cursor)
- Replit CEO Builds an App with 100% AI in 20 Min: Future of Coding?
- Let’s build a social app with AI in 100 min (v0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
- The framework for building AI startups from a product design genius
- John Coogan (TBPN) gives you $1B BIG startup ideas
- How this viral AI App is making $190,000/month
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 46 mentions in 11 episodes 4 per episode
- Trung Phan on The Hustle, ChatGPT, and TikTok
- How To Make MILLIONS As A Faceless YouTuber | Dru Riley
- The Biggest Startup Opportunities In 2024 | Eric Ries (The Lean Startup)
- Master the Art of AI-first Products with Dave Rogenmoser's Winning Formula
- From Zero to Millions: Danny Postma Reveals AI App Strategies for Success
- The Secret Strategies of Top DTC Brands with Nik Sharma
- Reflecting on a crazy 2022
- Info Diets, OG Content Creators, and 7-year Lifespans
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about OpenAI, oldest first
Jan 5, 2023 bullish
Isenberg: Zapier is underrated because it will capture value from OpenAI
“And I think that's why, despite Zapier being a billion dollar plus company, I actually think it's underrated. All the focus is being put on, you know, open AI, twenty billion dollar plus valuation. When I think you have to look around open AI and ask yourself,…”
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Mar 9, 2023 neutral
Phan: OpenAI and Microsoft will ultimately become AI cloud infrastructure providers
“I think the long-term economics for OpenAI and Microsoft which obviously owns about, we'll end up owning 45, 49% of it, is they're gonna have to be kind of a cloud provider. And they're going to want as many people to plug in as possible.”
Mar 9, 2023 bullish
Isenberg: Niche AI apps present a massive five-year opportunity for builders
“OpenAI and Google isn't gonna figure out themselves how to build every niche AI-based product, right? They're, and they don't wanna do that. So I think there's gonna be a huge opportunity over the next five years to, like, go and build a seven-figure AI first …”
Mar 23, 2023 bullish
Mar 30, 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.”
Sep 14, 2023 bullish
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.”
Nov 30, 2023 bullish
AI wrappers survive because platforms like OpenAI must design for average users
“Shopify has to make millions and millions and millions of users happy. So they're designing towards the middle. They're designing towards the average. But if you're building a custom GPT or you're building a quote unquote chat GPT wrapper, you can afford to ma…”
Nov 30, 2023 bearish
May 12, 2024 positive
Sep 30, 2024 negative
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 11, 2024
Coogan: Stolen AI Model Weights Are Far More Usable Than Web Codebases
“If you stole the code base to Facebook, And you were like, okay, I have all the code to Facebook. I'm going to launch Facebook to.com. Well, you don't have any of the users. People aren't going to your website. It's not valuable, but with the large language mo…”
Nov 18, 2024 neutral
Dec 28, 2024 negative
Moura: OpenAI's o1-mini struggles with agents by avoiding external tools
“Honestly, O one mini in my experience for agentic behaviors, sometimes falls short. Just because it already has kind of like chain of thought embedded on it. It tries to basically like Figure out everything itself without using any tools and kind of like outsm…”
Jan 29, 2025 bullish
Fernando: OpenAI o3 launch will likely trigger reasoning model price drops
“Open AI is currently promised that the O three model will come out and the mini model will come out, which would be on par with this model. So that prices will also probably significantly drop as well because they just get more efficient with time.”
Jan 29, 2025 bullish
Fernando: OpenAI's upcoming o3 model will take the industry by storm
“And so it's going to be really exciting when they actually dropped O three. I think a lot of people are going to be taken by storm of like, what's actually really going to come out from them. It's going to be a really, really big leap.”
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 30, 2025 bullish
Jan 30, 2025 neutral
Koerner: OpenAI Operator's $200/month price is unjustified for 99% of users
“I think it's overpriced if you don't know what you're doing. Like if you don't, like, really like any software, right? You've got to invest time into it. And I think that's the hard part with 99% of people is they don't yet have ideas, which is why they're wat…”
Jan 30, 2025 bullish
Mar 14, 2025 bearish
It is too early to build viable startups on Anthropic's MCP
“I don't think with this MCP stuff, we're at a place where any shots can be fired that make any smart business decision, but this is one of those things where you just, you sit and you watch and you're just observing and learning. And when the right thing at th…”
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…”
May 12, 2025 bullish
Courtney: OpenAI o3 Recreated a $35K, 3-Month Whitepaper in 10 Minutes
“We spent. 35,000 dollars to get a white paper created three years ago, which we used in a lot of marketing. Basically we wanted this company to go and research all of these things that were happening in businesses so that we could have all of these crazy quote…”
Jun 9, 2025 neutral
Meng To: AI requires explicit reference prompts for unique designs
“Because, you know, AI is very limited in the amount of context. It's very trained in a certain way by Claude, by OpenAI, but it's not trained to be unique. It's not, the only way it can be unique is if you tell it, and if you handhold it, and if you give it th…”
Jun 13, 2025 bullish
Sam Altman predicts 'idea guys' will soon dominate the startup industry
“He just posted on his blog. He says for a long time, technical people in the startup industry Have made fun of idea guys. People who've had an idea and were looking for a team to build it. It now looks to me like they are about to have their day in the sun.”
Jun 13, 2025 positive
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Jul 14, 2025 bearish
Aug 7, 2025 positive
Aug 13, 2025 positive
Aug 21, 2025 positive
Courtney: Direct response marketing works best for bootstrapped businesses
“I think like if you don't have crap tons of money, like as in, if you don't have loads of funding from investors, like for example, chat open AI shouldn't do this style of marketing because they do not need to. They've got a crazy product, crazy traction, and …”
Oct 13, 2025 bullish
Sora will shrink six-week agency video productions to under one week
“This is very disruptive to us because it essentially makes our six to eight week timeline down to what, like a week or less once you're able to kind of tweak and the quality gets better, which it will over the next three to six months.”
Oct 13, 2025 bullish
Multi-step AI video editing workflows will soon be baked into Sora
“I do think that, like, for everything I laid out, it's important for now, but it's gonna be baked into Sora's kind of suite, where you can edit clips, you can kind of double tap into this, and this entire process is gonna get, like, a lot faster and a lot chea…”
Oct 22, 2025 positive
Oct 22, 2025 bullish
Nov 3, 2025 positive
Nov 10, 2025 positive
Nov 13, 2025 bullish
Isenberg: AI Apps Owning Workflows and Network Effects Will Be Highly Valuable
“I think that you're discounting the opportunity that there is to actually create these, as you call it, flash in the pan apps to actually get data, to actually own the workflow, to actually create network effects. And I think that that those companies Provided…”
Nov 13, 2025 bullish
Nov 21, 2025 positive
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Jan 5, 2026 positive
Feb 6, 2026 neutral
Feb 6, 2026 neutral
Claude Opus 4.6 creates agent teams while Codex requires direct reasoning prompts
“When I'm talking to Opus, I can tell Opus, build me a team, and here's what I want each member of the team to do. When I'm talking to Codex, I can't really tell it to build me a team, but I can tell it to think about stuff.”
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Isenberg: Founders over-optimize debating OpenAI versus Anthropic frontier models
“You don't need to worry about, you know, is OpenAI a little bit better than Anthropic? Like, the reality is, you know, you can think of it as like Ferrari and Lamborghini, like both cars are going to go fast. And, you know, one day one car might go faster, and…”
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Mar 19, 2026 neutral
Moritz Kremb: OpenAI permits OpenClaw OAuth connections while Anthropic officially bans them
“Because OpenAI has stated that they're okay with it. So for them, it's definitely fine to use this OAuth method with Anthropic. It's kind of a gray area a bit. I think officially in their terms of service, it says you're not allowed to do that.”
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Riley Brown: OpenAI consolidated efforts to integrate Atlas browser inside Codex
“Well, recently they had like this big red alert at their company, and they decided to kind of push all of their efforts into one single app, which was Codex. And now what they're doing is they're just putting Atlas inside. They're basically putting Atlas insid…”
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
Apr 27, 2026 bearish
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Brown: Codex beats Claude Desktop by unifying coding and coworking tools
“Another way that I like to think about this is Claude code or this codex is like Claude code and co-work in a single product, but it's even better than that. And the reason why I like it more than Claude desktop is Claude made a decision to split up co-work an…”
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Brown: Claude and Codex Subscriptions Provide Thousands in Subsidized Tokens
“Like, in Claude or in Codex is you just save so much money because they're subsidizing, like, you get thousands of dollars of tokens for your a hundred dollar per month or 200 dollar per month plan because you're using their platforms.”
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
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”
Apr 29, 2026 bullish
May 4, 2026 negative
Wilkinson: Prompt engineer jobs are unnecessary because AI can interview users directly
“Nobody needs to build the prompts. The AI should just interview you. OpenAI just doesn't want to spend all the compute at this point, but it is fully capable of just interviewing you to figure out what you need.”
May 4, 2026 bullish
Wilkinson: Anthropic and OpenAI will soon launch AI CEO products
“My, I mean, my kind of belief is like pretty soon Anthropic and OpenAI are gonna launch like basically like CEOs. So you just be like, I'm just gonna hire a CEO for my company. Give me your data. I'll figure it out. I'll run it. I'll run the whole business.”
Jun 4, 2026 positive
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Isenberg: The Real Unlock For Codex Sites Is AI-Operated Products
“I think that a lot of people are going to use codex sites to make, like, personal web pages, to make, like, little apps and stuff like that. But I actually think that the real unlock here is to make products that Codex can keep operating for you.”
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Shipper predicts OpenAI and Anthropic launch agent app stores within a year
“And I bet you within a year the opening eyes in the anthropics of the world will have app stores for apps that are built specifically to be used inside of these services. Maybe even cursor too. I don't have any insight on any of this.”
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Dan Shipper: People Underestimate Codex's Multi-Agent Orchestration
“I think that people are sleeping on how, Flexible and powerful of a tool this is. Because, okay, so it's got the image model in it, and then it also has the ability, like it has the ability to change other threads. So, like, I can have this thread message anot…”
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Dan Shipper: GPT-5.6 Accurately Handles 90% of Routine Emails
“I think that five five was fine, but not quite good enough. Like, I would say generally the email responses here, so like this email draft, for example, is like, It's as if I wrote it, like it's, maybe there's something that I would slightly change, and I migh…”
Jul 9, 2026 neutral
Jul 9, 2026 positive
Sep 10, 2026 positive
Ross Mike: GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's priciest model, priced similarly to Fable
“OpenAI's most expensive model. It's on par with Fable in terms of pricing, but if you have a codec subscription, very subsidized, and not only that, it's also very efficient, meaning it doesn't take as many steps to complete a task.”