OpenAI Chaos Continues with Sunny Madra and David Sacks | E1852
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Today’s show:
Sunny Madra and David Sacks join Jason to break down all the chaos of the past few days at OpenAI including why the situation is so unprecedented (17:46), the board’s failure (30:18), the impact on startups (43:34), and much more!
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(0:00) Recapping the chaotic past few days at OpenAI plus some immediate impacts from the fallout
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(17:46) David Sacks joins the show and explains why this situation is so unprecedented in Silicon Valley
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(30:18) How the board could have handled this better, Sam Altman's misaligned incentives packages (or lack thereof)
(37:14) Silicon Valley's battle-tested standard structure, and why you shouldn't innovate on corporate structure
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(43:34) Impact on startups reliant on OpenAI's models, a brutal momentum killer for OpenAI
(50:39) Predictions: Return of the King? Mass Exodus? Something else?
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody welcome to this week and startups. We're going live on a Monday afternoon in the middle of all this open AI drama. What a 72 hours never seen anything like this in the history of Silicon Valley. |
| 0:13.8 | It's like we're living through the firing of Steve Jobs. |
| 0:17.2 | And the drama here is incredibly high. |
| 0:19.4 | And with me again today to discuss this is Sundep Mad Madra my good friend he is at Sundeep |
| 0:25.1 | on Twitter where we're hosting a Twitter space is live if you want to be invited to |
| 0:31.2 | these Twitter spaces live in the future you can just follow me |
| 0:33.6 | I'm X.com slash Jason he's X.com slash Sundeep on the website formerly known as |
| 0:39.6 | Twitter we also are live right now if you want to see the video if you go to |
| 0:44.0 | YouTube.com and search for this week in startups. |
| 0:47.0 | The channel is YouTube.com slash this week in |
| 0:50.0 | and you can subscribe to the this Week in Startups channel and hit the alert button |
| 0:56.4 | and you will get alerted there when we go live. |
| 0:59.1 | We are experiencing the most drama we've ever experienced in the history of Silicon Valley startups, I think. |
| 1:06.0 | This is probably goes beyond Therinos. |
| 1:08.4 | Certainly an importance goes right up there with SBF. |
| 1:11.7 | I give this one the edge with me again to discuss it all and give you a recap of what's happened and our insights is my good friend Sunny Sandeep Madras sunny how you doing |
| 1:21.2 | Excellent you know been just tracking all of this and seeing what impact it has on my startup as well so we get we can talk about that as we after we recap and |
| 1:31.1 | exciting times you know lots of stuff, so let's maybe get right into it. |
| 1:35.4 | This week in startups is brought to you by NetSuite. Once your business gets to |
| 1:40.9 | a certain size, the cracks start to emerge. |
| 1:44.0 | Things you used to do in a day, take a week. |
| 1:47.6 | You deserve a customized solution, and that's Net Suite. |
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