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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sam Altman comes up
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 13:50 John Coogan I normally make the joke of, like, the next, oh, when we talk to Sam Allman, we're going to pitch him linear, but it's like, oh, too late.
- ▶ 25:56 Roy Lee It is so obvious that AI is going to massively expand what is capable, and I think, like, even in five, 10 years, bro, if we keep growing at this rate, like, we'll be on the next ship to Mars, we'll all be living at 400 years old, and I'll…
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 15:20 unnamed speaker Tim, uh, Tim just calling up Sam and saying, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:16 unnamed speaker Uh, why I'm excited about Johnny and Sam's, uh, hardware project is it's an opportunity to rethink the device from the ground up with AI at the heart versus Apple, which I think going back to, uh, you know, Ben Thompson's position is smart…
- ▶ 1:51:09 Garry Tan I thought, um, Sam's essay yesterday was very prescient in that, um, like that's, that's sort of the silver lining.
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 39:11 John Coogan I, I was noticing a phenomenon after Trump coin dropped that it was very bizarre and unexpected that the president has a meme coin, but, ah, then when I started thinking about it, I was like, well, Elon Musk was, was kind of loosely… 2 times in the scene
Building Durable Funds in the Post-Boom Era | Nichole Wischoff on TBPN
- ▶ 10:33 unnamed speaker Well, it looks like, uh, Sam might be opening up the piggy bank and shelling out for some companies that could be described as somewhat as rappers.
Why Humor Is the True Test of AI Intelligence | Will Brown on TBPN
- ▶ 15:52 John Coogan Even Sam Altman was posting, like, hey, if you work for a high-frequency trading firm, like, come work at OpenAI, and I read that as, like, oh, they want to optimize their models now.
Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- ▶ 29:38 Aaron Ginn It's not like the DOD sec should like email Sam's like, Hey, can I, can I borrow this for, you know, like it has to be something that we own and we control that is like, is part of the people's power.
Why Industrialization WON'T Create New JOBS | Samuel Hammond on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 23:59 Samuel Hammond It's very, you know, Sam Altman wasn't a hedge fund manager.
Are AI AGENTS Learning to DREAM? | Shawn Wang on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 25:21 Shawn 'swyx' Wang Like, uh, what Elon is dealing with, what, uh, what Sam Altman's dealing with, what Darius is dealing with, is frontier tech.
Is AI UNDERVALUED? | Scott Wu on TBPN April 3rd
- ▶ 1:23 unnamed speaker Uh, almost 10 years ago to the day, Sam Altman posted a blog post called Bubble Talk, where he said, everyone was saying we're in a bubble. 6 times in the scene
Could AI TAKE OVER by 2027? | Morgan Housel on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 10:49 Jordi Hays Uh, what do you think, I posted an image earlier that I saw you like, hopefully you recalled it, and it was Trump and she picking up pennies in front of a, of a steamroller that was being driven by Sam Altman.
- ▶ 22:07 Morgan Housel And that's why even Sam Altman has no idea what AI is going to be in 20 years.
Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China
- ▶ 17:03 Dwarkesh Patel Remember when Sam got fired, and people were posting on Twitter, oh, there's something, what did Ilya see? 6 times in the scene
Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
- ▶ 1:52 Aidan McLaughlin I think like Sam and others had like, you know, well calibrated intuitions for this.
- ▶ 4:37 Aidan McLaughlin Like, Sam tweeted something this morning where it's like, you know, run, redo, like, this time for real. 2 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov on Defense Startups, NASA, Continuing Resolution and More
- ▶ 27:55 Delian Asparouhov And like, you know, are really pushing the fold. 4 times in the scene
Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
- ▶ 11:22 Guillermo Rauch Sama had a really good take. 2 times in the scene
Garry Tan talks the state of YC, the impact of AI, and the dawn of innovation.
HUGE Humanoid Robots Funding for 2025 ($40 BILLION)
- ▶ 22:32 unnamed speaker Uh, Sama can win when he gets seven trillion.
How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- ▶ 10:26 unnamed speaker Sam had an accelerator, a small accelerator called Y Combinator.
- ▶ 49:11 John Coogan Uh, the inside story of how Altman and Musk went from friends to bitter enemies. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:11 John Coogan Uh, in early to 20 15, Musk and Altman began having regular dinners each Wednesday in the Bay Area. 20 times in the scene
The BILLIONAIRE Saving THE WEST
- ▶ 7:26 unnamed speaker It's amazing they're positioning this as Trump's Stargate plan because it was a press conference for Massa and Sam Altman that happened to take place with Trump present. 2 times in the scene
The BEST Super Bowl Commercial (Saquon Barkley)
- ▶ 45:43 John Coogan I mean, it seems like it has popularity amongst the developer community, but beyond that, it hasn't really broken through and it's fascinating to see how aggressive Sam has been at open AI about responding to just any developments.
What is PALANTIR? (And Why it's RIPPING!)
- ▶ 3:31 unnamed speaker Uh, CTO Shamsankar, good friend of the show, uh, on Deep Seek and, and disagreeing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
The Future of Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 8:36 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, people, I, you gotta go back in the timeline when Meta dropped the first Llama model, because I remember the exact same hype cycle happening, where people were really rooting against Sam for a variety of reasons, and people…
- ▶ 26:14 unnamed speaker So, so, uh, the Altman needs two, uh, he needs two million GPUs just in Avalon, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:57 unnamed speaker Yeah, you have, uh, Sam Altman gets Trump to do his press tour for him. 2 times in the scene
From NOTHING to BILLIONS (Masa's Epic Rise)
What Open AI Got WRONG
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 5:17 John Coogan And, and, and the question has always been, okay, Sam is pitching a five hundred billion dollar cluster.
- ▶ 47:41 John Coogan Like if you go back two years ago when, uh, Sam Altman got fired from open AI, uh, there was all this question two years ago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:38 John Coogan And, and I do think, uh, I mean, Sam, Sam already addressed it and said that he's going to bring a, a set number of reasoning.
- ▶ 1:26:58 Jordi Hays Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Massa, and Sam are in a war room right now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:08 John Coogan And, uh, Ram Capital says, well played, Mr. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52:40 Jordi Hays Sam, Sam, to really mog the labs, open up a new tier of, of the O-One Pro, it's 20 grand a month.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 11:09 Jordi Hays And that is, I mean, the new, the new news there is that Satya is, uh, you know, sub, sub tweeting, uh, Sam in Elon's comments.
- ▶ 18:44 Jordi Hays Because Sam Altman, I promise you, does not care about some other startup that raised thirty million dollars. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:39 Jordi Hays We don't have a lot of details, but, and we should try to go through the girly piece, because he, he, like, gave a thread of, here's all the questions I have about, about OpenAI's, uh, Project Stargate, but if, if this is 1.4 trillion…
- ▶ 1:00:57 Jordi Hays Kind of hilarious how DeepSeek is exactly what ChatGPT was supposed to be, what OpenAI originally promised before Sam pivoted hard toward profit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:50 John Coogan Uh, Altman clapped back by saying it was already under construction, which is true. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:12 Jordi Hays No, he's, yeah, he's not a, not afraid to be, um, although the more efficient thing to do is just comment with a crying emoji under every, um, thing that Sam posts.
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 1:22:30 John Coogan Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Satya Nadella, some heavy hitters in the tech world, are duking it out. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:58 John Coogan Uh, so Sam Altman is, says he's doing an OpenAI livestream right now, first agent launch, and, uh, Vittorio comments, Europe will unfortunately take a while, LMAO, which I love, LMAO.
- ▶ 2:21:09 John Coogan Look at the Elons and the Sam Altmans of the world.
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 0:53 Jordi Hays Typically you have a big announcement like this, but it was because they were doing a press conference with Sam, with, with, uh, with Trump.
- ▶ 6:31 John Coogan And I love this photo of just Sam smiling while talking to the Paul brothers. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:04 Jordi Hays And so Sam's strategy, which was interesting, he says, I genuinely respect your accomplishments and think you are one of the most 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:52 Jordi Hays And so Jeff Lewis referencing Sam's response to Elon, he says, I genuinely respect your accomplishments and think you are the most inspiring crossover fund manager involved in a lawsuit against OpenAI of all time.
- ▶ 32:12 Jordi Hays And Sam and Masa out behind the scenes, taking these meetings, trying to get people to pick a side. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:19 Jordi Hays These are Sam Altman. 4 times in the scene
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 0:17 John Coogan Um, uh, today we are talking about a sternly worded letter that was sent from Elizabeth Warren to none other than Sam Altman. 6 times in the scene
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 32:11 Jordi Hays Meta in some way benefited from, I think Meta and Sam have benefited from the fires in some ways, because they both had somewhat controversial moves that were just completely drowned out.
- ▶ 1:52:52 John Coogan Topics covered include the discussion of Truffle, a device for local inference tied to humanoid robotics and personal intelligence, insights from a unique upbringing in the Middle East, future of AI agents, criticism of Sam Altman, um, 2 times in the scene
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 13:49 Jordi Hays Uh, Sam Altman runs a company with built, uh, not billions, but hundreds of millions of DAUs. 3 times in the scene
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:12:30 Jordi Hays It is, it is, it is, I feel like when Microsoft basically bought half of OpenAI, everybody was like, what is Sam doing?
- ▶ 2:57:44 Jordi Hays I, I remember when the whole thing went down, Altman posted her, couldn't help himself, and then it all came out that.
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 37:34 Jordi Hays Um, and all of this just got so spicy with, with, um, you know, the perplexity CEO just like constantly shitposting against Sam, OpenAI, uh, and, um, you know, Elon feuding the whole time in this like very public legal battle.
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 55:53 John Coogan He's, he's, uh, he's subtweeting Sam Altman, who, uh, was talking about the Robin Hood gold card, which is a very cool product. 2 times in the scene
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 1:20:24 John Coogan Let's go to Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 1:05:50 John Coogan We are building a full for-profit AGI, and it's, uh, Sam Altman in his Koenigsegg. 5 times in the scene
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 40:52 John Coogan Sam was super wealthy and he, uh, when he, no, but that's what I'm saying.
- ▶ 1:01:51 John Coogan Sam's been asking for regulatory capture.
- ▶ 1:48:13 John Coogan Um, let's go to Rohit remembering the best product launch of all time, and it's Sam Altman announcing the launch of ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 3:05:37 Jordi Hays You know that, I think Altman bought, like, two percent of Stripe for, like, 10 grand? 3 times in the scene
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 1:17:15 John Coogan I mean, Sam was kind of teasing it with that 13 trillion number or something like that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:33 John Coogan And there's so many examples of Sam Altman.
- ▶ 1:50:36 John Coogan Sama, please, elections are over.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 1:52:27 John Coogan Uh, and Sam Altman says, which one of these is supposed to be the left-wing propaganda machine again? 5 times in the scene
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 1:08:54 John Coogan Well, let's go to the other AI founder, Sam Altman says, more generally, I am feeling good
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 42:17 Jordi Hays Obviously, Sam Altman saw what Avi did with Friend and decided, I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get chat dot com.
- ▶ 1:36:45 Jordi Hays Um, and that's something that, you know, Sam Altman and Elon and Gary can agree on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:47:26 John Coogan Uh, Sam Altman. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:07:44 John Coogan Sam Altman's investing in it, but the market hasn't really moved on it, but they're starting to right now.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 1:24 John Coogan That opportunity came along in the form of a call from Sam Altman, and so Sam just tweets, chat.com, and that's it. 2 times in the scene
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 2:06:05 Jordi Hays 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…
- ▶ 2:47:22 John Coogan Very dystopian, but I'm, I, I'm, I'm always like, I'm just bullish on SAM projects, and I'm, I'm, I'm interested to see, like, kind of, like, the manifestation of that idea. 2 times in the scene
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 1:31:02 John Coogan I mean, that's even bigger than what Sam was saying, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:29:05 Jordi Hays That's the thing to respect most about Sam Altman is that he dailies hypercars.
Elon's Big Week (ep4)
- ▶ 1:37:59 unnamed speaker Buys a McLaren P-one to gain the favor of Altman. 3 times in the scene
Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1)
- ▶ 2:12 unnamed speaker No, I think it's much more of a statement on Sam's character to leave during the fundraise, which is. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:28 unnamed speaker They called Altman a podcast bro as if it was some type of, like, attack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:34 unnamed speaker You know, you know, they always talk about, like, the, the, you know, Sam Altman, and if you drop him on an island, he could become, like, the cannibal.
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