OpenAI Going Public, the China–US AI Race, and How AI Is Reshaping the S&P 500 and Jobs w/ Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin & Alex Wissner-Gross | EP #205
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
PHD Ventures
4.8 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Setting new records, Open AI hits historic growth to 100 billion in revenue. |
| 0:05.0 | I think it's entirely possible that Open AI could hit 100 billion ARR in a couple of years. |
| 0:10.0 | I think the easiest path is... |
| 0:13.0 | Open AI. Remember, of course, one of the most important companies in the world. |
| 0:17.0 | They could give it a market cap of $1 trillion. |
| 0:19.0 | But of course, this is an ongoing story, and there is still a lot of uncertainties as well |
| 0:23.6 | in opening eyes future. |
| 0:24.6 | The big question is whether the S&P 500 is overvalued and whether the Mag 7 can continue |
| 0:30.6 | to sort of command that level of valuation because they're driving much of the economy |
| 0:36.6 | and much of the gains. |
| 0:38.3 | AI is going to be huge no matter what. There's no doubt about that. |
| 0:41.3 | But is that scarcity sustainable or are there going to be many competitors in a race to the bottom and margins will come down? |
| 0:48.3 | With 800 million subscribers already, half this comes from subscription revenue that's more or less in the bag. This is really dwarfing all history. |
| 0:58.0 | Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:03.0 | So guys, I'm still getting up at like 3.30 in the morning coming back from Riyadh. How are you guys doing? |
| 1:09.0 | I'm actually okay. I get back and I learned a trick from from Rames and Raymond McCauley and they said take a double |
| 1:18.2 | dose of melatonin and in a couple of days you're good. |
| 1:23.1 | I've actually been surprisingly okay. |
| 1:24.9 | I actually like getting up at 3.30. |
| 1:27.2 | It's like I've got like four hours before anybody else wakes up. |
| 1:31.2 | And it's like amazing. |
| 1:33.5 | Dave, how about you, buddy? |
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