All episodes of This Week in Startups

This Week in Startups · 2025-11-01 · 79 min · 14,683 words

What will be OpenAI's IPO price? Place ya bets! | E2202

Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Timestamps stay in sync with the live audio

If I was a developer of any kind, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI. Let me say that. This is a warning. People can clip this. This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman's OpenAI API.

They are studying you. Remember, Sam Altman's been around the block. I've known him since Loop. He's an incredibly savvy person and he wants every bit of revenue from the ecosystem. He isn't taking no prisoners.

He's going to study how you're using the API, which he has the right to do. Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg School of Business, which is give dumb people access to your tools, study them, and like the Borg, steal every innovation they have. And Zuckerberg got it from Bill Gates and Microsoft. Microsoft had a platform and operating system they let people build, Lotus 123, then they did Microsoft Excel.

That is the first couple of minutes. The rest is $1.49.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (79 minutes, 14,683 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.

get it now

Ready in under two minutes.

pay once · credits never expire

monthly · cheapest per episode · cancel any time

One episode is up to 4 hours of audio; a longer one counts as one more for every started 4 hours. Secure checkout by Stripe. Paying once needs no account: we create one from your email. By paying you agree to the terms.