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Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel? Sep 9, 2026 · 1 mention

Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath May 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 50:09 unnamed speaker Um, and one of those, like, cold outreaches was the Early OpenAI team and, um, Sam Altman and a few other, like, founders. 2 times in the scene

The $11B Bet That Voice Will Replace Everything | Mati Staniszewski x Nikhil Kamath | WTF Online · Nikhil Kamath Mar 11, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 12:59 Mati Staniszewski I think OpenAI has a good path to building like a personal assistant that's next to you. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:01 Mati Staniszewski You know, like, in a, in, in our case, we are, of course, continuously looking at, like, OpenAI, Google, incredible teams, and probably, like, as we think about the space, the, the, the biggest potentials of, uh, of, of, of effectively… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:38 Nikhil Kamath I thought open air is experimenting with ads for the first time, but to justify those valuations and to stop burning money, they have to make money.

The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn't Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath Feb 24, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 3:19 Dario Amodei Then I joined OpenAI a few months after it, uh, started and was, uh, you know, was, was basically led, led, um, all of research there for, for, for, for several years.
  • ▶ 3:43 Nikhil Kamath How was it, was it like a fork in how OpenAI was thinking into what Anthropic eventually did? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:57 Nikhil Kamath Didn't OpenAI believe in scaling laws because they went down the same path themselves too, right?
  • ▶ 13:35 Nikhil Kamath When I watch OpenAI talk about how they're, how they were a not for profit company, or how you are projecting humility in the conversation that you're having right now, or how the American companies are competing with the Chinese companies…
  • ▶ 47:38 Nikhil Kamath I've heard this argument for different people like the Harvey, the legal AI company in New York, they're friends of mine, and they were talking about how they built on top of OpenAI, but eventually they don't know 2 times in the scene
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