Sam Altman
11 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 14, 2025 by Sam Altman · said 37 times in 16 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nikhil Kamath (10), Varun Mayya (8), A. R. Rahman (3), Kaivalya Vohra (2), HE Omar Sultan Al Olama (2), Yann LeCun (1), Vinod Khosla (1), Tanmay Bhat (1)
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2026 16 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- The $11B Bet That Voice Will Replace Everything | Mati Staniszewski x Nikhil Kamath | WTF Online · Nikhil Kamath
- The Case for Youth in Politics | HE Omar Sultan Al Olama (One of the World's Youngest Ministers) · Nikhil Kamath
- Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- 17 Young Founders | 8 Startups | 20 Lakh Grants | Third WTFund Cohort · Nikhil Kamath
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2025 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- A.R. Rahman: The Genius Who Took Indian Music Global | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF | Ep 15 · Nikhil Kamath
- India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath
- Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- Vinod Khosla: College Degrees Are Becoming Useless | People by WTF | Episode 12 · Nikhil Kamath
- From Ghaziabad to Silicon Valley: Nikhil Kamath x Nikesh Arora | People by WTF | Ep. 11 · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Sam Altman, oldest first
Aug 14, 2025 bullish
Altman: Luxury brands will increase in value despite AI-driven deflation
“In a deflationary world, some things can face huge deflationary pressure and others can be the sink for all of the extra capital. So I'm actually not sure they do go down in a deflationary world. I would bet they go up, actually.”
Aug 14, 2025 neutral
Aug 14, 2025 negative
Altman: AI podcast hosts will not be more popular than humans
“Maybe, maybe there can be like an AI podcast host that is much better than you at asking interesting questions and, you know, kind of engaging whatever, and I personally don't
Think that podcast host, that AI podcast host is likely to be more popular than you.”
Aug 14, 2025 neutral
Aug 14, 2025 bullish
Aug 14, 2025 neutral
Aug 14, 2025 bullish
Altman: Wealth redistribution and UBI will increase as AI enriches society
“I expect that like social support or redistribution or whatever you want to call it will increase over time as society gets richer and as sort of the technological landscape shifts. I don't know what way it's going to happen and I expect in different countries…”
Aug 14, 2025 bearish
Altman: No single AI company will ever capture half of global GDP
“My, the analogy I like most for AI is the transistor, which was this really important scientific discovery that for a while looked like it was going to capture a ton of the value. And then turned out to be something that just gets built into like tons of produ…”
Aug 14, 2025 positive
Aug 14, 2025 bullish
Mar 11, 2026 neutral
Kamath: Altman-Ive AI device will likely be a handheld with a pendant
“I wouldn't be surprised if it's a phone looking device with the UI, which is not natively Android or anything that already exists, but something which is a lot more different with a partner with a buddy device, maybe, which is like a pendant or something like …”