ChatGPT

15 statements across 13 episodes · 8 bullish · 5 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2022 by Einar Vollset · said 100 times in 42 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Rob Walling (75), Einar Vollset (15), Harris Kenny (4), Wes Bush (2), Noah Kagan (1), Lars Lofgren (1), Derrick Reimer (1), Braden Dennis (1)

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Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first

Dec 20, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Einar Vollset says ChatGPT could genuinely hurt Google's search business.
“It's genuinely one of the first things I've seen. I've been like, truly, this could hurt Google, like, you know, not immediately, but something like that really could.”
Einar Vollset Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 5:47 Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, Chat...
Dec 20, 2022 bullish
Insight
Vollset: Customers pay steep markups for workflow-tailored AI applications
“Like the best example of this is all these like copywriting AI companies, you know, basically like you could do whatever it is that they do. Using Open GPT and it'll be much cheaper than their interface. But the fact is their customers don't care that much. Th…”
Einar Vollset Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 18:32 Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, Chat...
Dec 20, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Einar Vollset predicts AI will hit a trough in 18 months.
“It's probably overhyped at the moment. It usually tends to be, there'll be like a trough of sorrow in like, 18 months when everything is in the crapper. But I think like two, three years from now, we'll look back and we'll be like, oh yeah, this underlying tec…”
Einar Vollset Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 6:27 Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, Chat...
Mar 28, 2023 negative
Insight
Tom Merritt: ChatGPT struggles with nuance because of its training data
“It's Not good for a lot of the things I do because I am so focused on what we just talked about, like trying to make sure that I've got all the nuances and bringing in the parts of the story that maybe people aren't considering. And ChatGPT is not good at that…”
Tom Merritt Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 29:13 Episode 654 | Shipping Every Day for 10 Years with Tom Merritt
May 30, 2023 bullish
Opinion
ChatGPT is a bigger shift than the iPhone, rivaling the internet
“And particularly with ChatGPT, it became very evident to me that this was like probably one of the bigger shifts in terms of a technical capability that would impact startups. [189] Einar Volset: I think at the very least, the biggest comparative change that I…”
Einar Vollset May 30, 2023 ▶ 2:58 Episode 663 | 5 Insights SaaS Founders Should Know About A.I. (Ig...
Oct 3, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Walling: Stratosphere built and launched FinChat in just six weeks
“When ChatGPT and everything was buzzing six, eight months ago, they built FinChat.io. My memory is they built and shipped it in six weeks. It was very fast, and they got instant traction.”
Rob Walling Oct 3, 2023 ▶ 31:09 Episode 681 | Why Launching a Second Product is Usually a Bad Ide...
Aug 13, 2024 positive
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2029
Walling: AI will not eliminate the need for software developers by 2034
“They were talking about learning to code, and how everyone's going to be able to code because of ChatGPT, and developers won't be needed anymore, and I just don't believe that's the case at all. I mean, we've seen the same thing with no code. It's like, you ca…”
Rob Walling Aug 13, 2024 ▶ 16:17 Episode 726 | Selling 29,000 Copies, Information vs. Motivation,...
Dec 31, 2024 bullish
Prediction Held up
Walling: Ads in AI chat interfaces will become commonplace
“My fifth prediction is that ads in AI chat interfaces like ChatGPT or Claude or, you know, whatever other chat interface you use will become commonplace because this is the next frontier.”
Rob Walling Dec 31, 2024 ▶ 6:30 Episode 746 | 9 Startup Predictions for 2025
Aug 21, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Kenney: First version of Outbound Sync was built using ChatGPT and Make
“And frankly, like, I wouldn't be here if I didn't have ChatGPT because I built the first version of this with ChatGPT and Make.”
Harris Kenny Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 18:20 Episode 789 | TinySeed Tales s5e1: From Agency to SaaS
Sep 2, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Vollset: LLM Capability Gains Are Approaching an Asymptote
“The data shows which it's really reaching, looks to be reaching some kind of asymptote. Like this asymptote can be very high, but It's still, to me, it seems like each new model that comes out, whether it's from ChatGPT or Google or Grok or whatever, it seems …”
Einar Vollset Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 12:42 Episode 792 | Hot Take Tuesday: GPT-5 Struggles, the A.I. Bubble,...
Dec 2, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Hewitt dismisses ChatGPT for business tasks as merely a consumer product
“I don't care for ChatGPT for almost everything, because it's a consumer product.”
Craig Hewitt Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 9:19 Episode 809 | What I Learned Diving into A.I. for 100 Days (with...
Mar 10, 2026 neutral
Insight
Vollset: Autonomous AI agents cannot be truly useful without major security trade-offs
“You're almost never gonna get, like, a hundred percent security, because it's not helpful, unless it sees what I see. And if it doesn't see what I see, then it's just like, yeah, ok, like, can you do some web research for me? I'm like, yeah, that's, So can cha…”
Einar Vollset Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 38:09 Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGP...
Apr 28, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Reimer: Users are highly unlikely to click outbound referral links from ChatGPT
“Odds that they're clicking a link from ChatGPT to your site so that ChatGPT will literally show up in analytics is pretty slim.”
Derrick Reimer Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 18:22 Episode 830 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Zero-Click Marketing, an...
Jun 23, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Walling: B2B SaaS companies are already seeing measurable referral traffic from LLMs
“TinySeed companies, as well as TinySeed itself, and MicroConf, and this podcast, and Rob Walling, are all getting referrals and traffic from LLMs, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.”
Rob Walling Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 18:31 Episode 838 | 6 Key Takeaways From a TinySeed Batch Kick-Off
Aug 11, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Walling: ChatGPT queries are not protected by attorney-client privilege
“There was a case where someone, they were asking ChatGPT, I think, legal questions, and saying like, well, if I did this, you know, what would the outcome be? And then when it got subpoenaed, he said, well, I was treating it like my attorney, so there's, Clien…”
Rob Walling Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 17:23 Episode 845 | Lifetime Deals Revisited, Building is Not the Hard...
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