Sam Altman
47 statements across 25 episodes · 20 bullish · 8 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Nov 6, 2024 by Jordi Hays · said 685 times in 164 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by John Coogan (237), Jordi Hays (85), Satya Nadella (6), Dwarkesh Patel (6), Garry Tan (5), Tyler Denk (4), Tae Kim (4), Delian Asparouhov (4)
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2026 231 mentions in 65 episodes 4 per episode
- Altman’s Testimony, AI SPV Drama, Ebay Rejects $GME Bid | Diet TBPN
- The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
- Cerebras IPO, Warsh Confirmed Fed Chair, Musk-OpenAI Trial Nears End | Diet TBPN
- Open AI Acquires TBPN, Artemis II, The AI-Built $1.8B Company | Diet TBPN
- OpenAI Acquires TBPN
- Artemis II Makes History, Nutella in Space, The US-China AI Race | Diet TBPN
- xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
- The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN
- 57 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 389 mentions in 83 episodes 5 per episode
- How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- The State Of AI in 15 Minutes
- Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- 75 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 65 mentions in 16 episodes 4 per episode
- Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Sam Altman, oldest first
Nov 6, 2024 negative
Sam Altman Lapped Sundar Pichai's Google in AI While Google Coasted
“Yeah, he's making so much money, every employee's making a lot of money, the shareholders are doing well, everybody's just kind of coasting, and then you, it's like, boom, Sam Altman comes in and laps you on AI, all your AI products internally suck, Sam Altman…”
Nov 14, 2024 bullish
Coogan: Market is starting to move on energy for AI infrastructure
“Energy is, like, clearly the next thing, and it's been a little bit of a champagne or a cocktail position in the sense that people talk about it at cocktail parties. Oh, energy's gonna be really important. Sam Altman's investing in it, but the market hasn't re…”
Nov 19, 2024 neutral
Hays: Altman's Grok vs ChatGPT post was savvy content marketing
“So I actually saw a deeper dive on that on Sam's post and it did seem like he had sort of strategically cropped it or screenshot it in a way to not give the sort of like final conclusion. So I think what Sam was doing is what, you know, a lot of people do, whi…”
Nov 23, 2024 positive
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Jan 25, 2025 positive
Feb 12, 2025 negative
Feb 19, 2025 positive
Mar 8, 2025 neutral
Jul 5, 2025 neutral
Coogan: OpenAI Recalibrates Compensation to Fight Meta Poaching While Balancing Fairness
“Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and other leaders of the company around the clock to talk to those with offers, adding, we've been more proactive than ever before. We're recalibrating comp and we're scooping out creative wa…”
Aug 16, 2025 bearish
Aug 16, 2025 neutral
Oct 10, 2025 neutral
Altman: Consumers will eventually value originality over human or AI origin
“You know, stuff that is technically written or drawn or filmed by a human, but is completely derivative and much less original than what an AI has generated, and I think that will be what people really care about long term.”
Oct 10, 2025
Oct 10, 2025 bullish
Altman: AI and VR will increase demand for authentic physical experiences
“And at some point, like the fact that they can have like a crazy VR experience, they'll still want the real thing and the connection to it and everything they have. So I think there will be a huge amount of that. In fact, I think the future looks like much mor…”
Oct 10, 2025 bullish
Oct 10, 2025 positive
Altman: Sora team made feed AI-only despite my initial pushback
“One design decision the team made that I thought was really great, and I was actually pushing them in a different direction earlier on, and then I decided they were totally right, and I thanked them and dropped it, was the fact that the feed is AI only.
And no…”
Oct 10, 2025 bullish
Altman: Creators will complain Sora does not feature their IP enough
“I can totally imagine a world where our problem in a year or six months or maybe even less is not that people don't want their cameos or their characters appearing, but they think we are not fairly having their characters or cameo appearing often enough.”
Oct 15, 2025
Modern Celebrity CEO Culture Began With Time Magazine Covers In The 1920s
“This was also a period where all of these guys also became celebrities for the first time that happened in the 19 twenties when, you know, time magazine would put these guys on the cover the same way they'd put Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh on the cover. So …”
Oct 22, 2025 positive
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Nadella: Sam Altman and I agree 'AGI' has become a nonsensical term
“To me, I think, first of all, I think one of the reasons why, quite frankly, both Sam and I think, agree on this, which is, it's become a bit of a nonsensical word. I mean, it's just changing, and everybody defines it differently, and we now know what the issu…”
Nov 7, 2025 neutral
Sam Altman predicts US government becomes insurer of last resort for AI
“At some level, when something gets sufficiently huge, whether or not they are on paper, the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort. As we've seen in various financial crises and insurance companies screwing things up. So, I guess, given the m…”
Dec 3, 2025 neutral
Jan 8, 2026 neutral
Jan 8, 2026 neutral
Jan 16, 2026 bullish
Merge Labs raised $252M with backing from Sam Altman and OpenAI
“OpenAI and Sam Altman backing a new bold take on fusing humans and machines. It's called Merge Labs. We've heard about this before. We talked to Rob Taves. They now have two hundred and fifty two million dollars in the bank and an all-star, all-star crew.”
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Feb 5, 2026 positive
Feb 5, 2026 bearish
Altman: Social platforms could solve bots but engagement incentives conflict
“I don't know if the social platforms it's like in their interest to solve this. It is cause it's creating like, at least in the short term, it creates like a lot of engagement and increased usage. So I believe they could solve it if they wanted to. I'm not sur…”
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Altman: More capable models may eliminate today's multi-agent abstractions
“I suspect like everything else that's happening when an industry is moving so fast, all of this is somewhat temporary on like a long enough time scale. And You, as these models become more capable and these agents are operating on very long time horizons with …”
Feb 5, 2026 bullish
Altman: Critics claiming AI scaling is slowing or topping out have been wrong
“And for all of the concern people have about it's gonna, like, top out, or it's slowing down, or whatever, like, no one's been right about that. I mean, sometimes they, it looked like they were for a couple of months as we digested a new model or came to a new…”
Feb 5, 2026 bullish
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Altman: Viral AI image adoption stems from subtly enhancing users' attractiveness
“A lot of what's gone viral before with Image Gen, I think it's like if you can make people look a little bit more attractive or cool than they look in, than they are in real life. Without sort of having to ask for that.”
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Feb 5, 2026 bearish
Feb 5, 2026 positive
Altman: OpenAI prioritizes coding and science AI over writing models
“What is possible now for coding for science. That's the thing I'm most excited about for accelerating all kinds of research AI and otherwise for really accelerating the economy. I think that's like the right thing for us to most prioritize in terms of new capa…”
Feb 5, 2026 positive
Feb 5, 2026 bullish
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Feb 5, 2026 positive
Feb 5, 2026 positive
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Apr 13, 2026 negative
Apr 13, 2026 negative