OpenAI

5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2022 by Einar Vollset · said 32 times in 11 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Dec 20, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Vollset: AI startups cannot build moats without proprietary models or data
“I think it'll be hard to have a competitive moat if you don't have your own language, if you don't have your own training sets, if you don't have your own model. I think that would be true.”
Einar Vollset Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 17:56 Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, Chat...
Apr 9, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Reimer: OpenAI wrappers face tough days as platform boundaries shift
“I think we're going to see a whole generation of open AI rappers kind of see some really tough days coming up as, you know, the boundaries sort of bleed on who owns what part of the stack.”
Derrick Reimer Apr 9, 2024 ▶ 41:50 Episode 708 | Outsourcing Marketing, Competitive Markets, and Mor...
Jun 4, 2024 positive
Insight
Tech Stack Matters Less Than Brand and Revenue in $100M+ Acquisitions
“At that point, the tech matters a lot less, because think about just saying, I'm gonna spend a hundred million dollars on the business. You know, you're buying the tech, but really you're buying a lot more than that. You're buying the user base, and probably t…”
Rob Walling Jun 4, 2024 ▶ 24:42 Episode 716 | Positioning Against Incumbents, Changing Your H1, H...
Sep 2, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Walling: OpenAI and Anthropic subsidize compute at massive financial losses
“OpenAI and Anthropic and all of these are losing hundreds of millions, billions of dollars, whatever it is, because They are buying something for a dollar and giving it away for 20 cents.”
Rob Walling Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 19:40 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...
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