OpenAI & Sam Altman's Sad Sack Band of Goons
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
5.0 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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CW: Child Sexual Assault
Meet Sam Altman, one of the most powerful men in tech (also maybe evil Pete Buttigieg??) and his posse of boy pests. We take you deep into the bunkers of Silicon Valley to Sam's inner circle to figure out how he became so rotted. Was it insecurity? Napoleon syndrome? OR SCURVY INDUCED PSYCHOSIS ???
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the corporate gossip podcast. It's the business podcast for gossip lovers. |
| 0:05.5 | We explore the most absurd corporate scandals, the juiciest Wall Street tea, and the not-so-hidden |
| 0:11.3 | secrets of famous business people. You don't need to know anything about business to enjoy the |
| 0:17.1 | corporate gossip podcast, but you might learn something along the way. Today's episode is |
| 0:22.6 | Open AI and Sam Altman's sad sack band of goons. |
| 0:29.3 | Speed. Welcome back to the corporate gossip podcast. I'm your host, CPA scorned, |
| 0:34.4 | Becca Platsky. I'm here with my co-host and my brother. Data Analytics Playboy Adam Platsky. |
| 0:39.0 | And it's the episode, you guys. |
| 0:41.4 | It's the episode that we've known we've had to do for so long. |
| 0:45.1 | And, God, could it have been any more timely? |
| 0:47.8 | There was a huge product drop last week. |
| 0:50.8 | And everybody's talking about chat GPT5. |
| 0:54.0 | Is it a flop? Is it the most incredible product |
| 0:56.3 | that's ever seen the light of day? You know how we feel about it already. But let's go back. |
| 1:02.8 | Let's understand the origins of this company. This is going to be the first in a series on |
| 1:09.0 | OpenAI because the fact is this episode is going to be a full |
| 1:13.5 | length episode and we are barely going to scratch the surface. There is too much to cover in |
| 1:20.3 | one episode and also I would go insane if I tried to cover it all at once. So it's going to be a |
| 1:26.5 | series of episodes. We're not going to do them back to |
| 1:28.5 | back to back because we need to just take a breather. Okay. It's just too much. So this will be the first of a |
| 1:35.0 | series of episodes. And we're going to start with the main characters of OpenAI. If this podcast has |
| 1:40.6 | taught us anything, it's that CEOs are people too. And we have to understand their |
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