ChatGPT

17 statements across 15 episodes · 11 bullish · 4 bearish · 15 people on the record · first statement Aug 28, 2023 by Aaron Lee · said 104 times in 53 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first

Aug 28, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Lee: Today's AI startups are unproven UI wrappers lacking revenue
“If you look at all the AI companies today, they have a nice, I call the UI wrapper on top of AI or chat GPT, but the revenue is very lacking. It's unproven.”
Aaron Lee Aug 28, 2023 ▶ 17:17 Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month
Aug 28, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Lee: Private Business Calls Create A Data Moat Against Public LLMs
“ChatGPT, they're using all the public data, public information, but there's so much information that is not public, like all the claws in the chest for the company and for the businesses, they're not. So we have all the advantage.”
Aaron Lee Aug 28, 2023 ▶ 15:20 Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month
Sep 19, 2023 positive
Opinion
Larry Kim: Customers.ai differentiates by running its own LLM, not ChatGPT API.
“These AI companies are just like invoking chat GPT API. I think we're significantly differentiated from that because we have our own LLM.”
Larry Kim Sep 19, 2023 ▶ 2:22 His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model
Nov 7, 2023 bearish
Disclosure
Vidas shut down StrategyBox fearing ChatGPT would usurp its core tech
“We also saw we had early access to ChatGPT just because it was a data management platform, and we did AI and machine learning. I had a look at a lot of the functionality that we were building and investing in, and I looked at the capabilities of ChatGPT, and I…”
Aaron Vidas Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 4:46 How to do $500,000 Revenue in 8 Weeks launching new AI SaaS Tool
Jan 2, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Chili Piper plans Q1 AI scheduler as 'ChatGPT for Calendly'
“We have something coming in the first quarter that we think is the chat GPT of Calendly, you know, but we'll see.”
Nicolas Vandenberghe Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 7:28 How to Double Your Company From $16m to $30m Revenue Using Multiple Product Lines with Chilipiper CEO
Apr 25, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Muck Rack launched generative AI agent PressPal weeks after ChatGPT released
“Just a couple weeks after ChatGPT came out, we launched PressPal AI, a press release generative AI agent that also suggests journalists to pitch to”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 19:51 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Oct 15, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Omnisend CEO: AI tools like ChatGPT will make SEO attribution harder
“Being able to set to attribute SEO effort will be more challenging, just because if someone search on ChatGPT or Gemini and then enters your direct link into your browser it's very hard to Attribute.”
Rytis Lauris Oct 15, 2024 ▶ 19:38 Genius SEO Hacks This 34 Year Old Used to Bootstrap to $55m Revenue with Omnisend CEO Rytis Lauris
Jun 12, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Latka: Google Must Cannibalize Ad Revenue to Defend Search Against ChatGPT
“I actually think the ad space is very interesting because Google has an innovators dilemma, right? They're gonna have to, Cannibalize their ad revenue to go make sure that, you know, the LM search and the chat function stays with Google versus chat GPT winning…”
Nathan Latka Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 18:08 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
Jul 8, 2025 positive
Insight
Torres: ChatGPT excels when replicating examples rather than following rules
“My understanding of like where chat GPT really excels is not when you give them like tips on like, this is how you write a good hook. And this is how you write a good body, but it's more like do this, but in this different way. And that's why like, I like to g…”
Romain Torres Jul 8, 2025 ▶ 21:59 My Agent Army Brings Me $500,000 Per Month (Exploding SaaS)
Jul 8, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Arcads uses AI agents to scrape, rewrite, and replicate competitor ads
“I have one that maybe I can show you, but it might be a bit too complex, but that basically will send me messages in Slack every single day when my competitors run new ads that are worth replicating. It will scrape the ads libraries and yeah, it will download …”
Romain Torres Jul 8, 2025 ▶ 20:24 My Agent Army Brings Me $500,000 Per Month (Exploding SaaS)
Jul 29, 2025 negative
Opinion
Hamdi: Y Combinator AI startups are often 'fugazi' ChatGPT wrappers
“I think AI right now has a lot of like Y Combinator kind of fugazi with a couple of people and, you know, a chat GPT wrapper.”
Bassem Hamdi Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 13:24 He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies
Dec 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pearsall: Club Caddie has captured a couple dozen leads from ChatGPT
“I know that we have now added within HubSpot is the lead source and origin source, and there's been a couple dozen this year that have come in through it. But you know, we just started tracking it within the last six, seven months.”
Jason Pearsall Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 24:51 From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook
Dec 24, 2025 positive
Insight
Fennell: Offering features unavailable in ChatGPT drives organic search traffic
“So we're finding that if you, if you're putting things onto your site that people can't get in ChatGPT now, that that's helping drive clicks through because obviously if they can just get it in ChatGPT, they've got no reason to leave.”
Andrew Fennell Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 19:03 Founder uses Genius Playbook to hit $1M revenue with no employees
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
LLMs now drive 20% of Allo's total web traffic
“I think the UTM chat GPT is around eight percent on the traffic, but when you talk, I think it's more around 20% traffic coming from LLM today.”
Jeremy Goyo Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 6:33 How Allo Reached $10M Revenue With 5,000 Customers
Apr 8, 2026
Insight
Tigranian: Standard Google SEO directly drives visibility in LLMs like ChatGPT
“We actually optimizing for Google and whatever we do, same impact is happening also in LLMs. So not much specific for ChartGPT. You actually doing exactly for SEO, it have a lot of impact on ChartGPT.”
Mike Tigranian Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 13:27 How Buildern Reached $2M Revenue With 300 Customers | Hmayak Tigranyan
May 21, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
White: Fathom is adding native Claude and ChatGPT integrations plus MCP server
“So we're actually gonna have first-class direct integrations with Claude and chat GPT, an MCP server for anything else you might use.”
Richard White May 21, 2026 ▶ 6:07 He Lost $50/User to Build a $30M ARR AI Empire (Fathom)
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Opinion
Arora: Physical AI is where ChatGPT was around 2015
“And the, and I think if you get an equivalence, I think physically AI is at the same point where Chad GBT was in around 2015, where it's just finding its roots.”
Sankalp Arora Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 1:46 Gather AI: $15M Revenue With Drones and 170% Net Retention - Sankalp Arora
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