[Patreon Exclusive] Musk V. Altman: Between a Grok and a hard place
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
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Tragic, the most annoying men on earth are fighting in federal court over "perfidy and deceit of Shakespearean proportions"!!!
Robby and Becca crack open their piggy bank and spend all their money downloading electronic court records from the Northern California district court to bring you the juiciest nuggets you won't hear anywhere else!
We recorded this episode on Wednesday evening and wanted to get it out quickly because this is an evolving story!
Links:
Battle of the Billionaires: What's at Stake as Elon Musk and Sam Altman Face Off in Court
The unflattering secrets revealed so far in Elon Musk's latest legal feud
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the corporate gossip podcast, Patreon. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm your host, CPA Skp. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm here with my co-host. |
| 0:07.5 | Out of office reply guy, Robbie Slovak. |
| 0:09.5 | And this week, it's Musk versus Altman, the showdown in Oakland. |
| 0:15.2 | Whoa. |
| 0:16.1 | It's a big WWE. |
| 0:17.8 | Is that what they're calling it, the showdown in Oakland? |
| 0:19.5 | That's what I'm calling it. |
| 0:21.7 | This is the culmination of a lawsuit brought about two years ago by Musk against Altman. |
| 0:28.7 | He brought it against Altman, OpenAI, Microsoft, some of the key players that we heard about in the Open Day I episode, Ilius Stutskever, Greg Brockman, the whole crew. |
| 0:38.9 | The whole crew. |
| 0:39.7 | It's been 11 years since OpenAI's founding as a nonprofit by Musk and Altman. |
| 0:45.7 | Eight years since Musk left the company, |
| 0:48.4 | seven years since it partially shed its nonprofit status, |
| 0:51.6 | and four years since ChatchipT made made open a i a household name and now |
| 0:57.9 | all these years later musk alleges that altman and his crew betrayed musk and for that he needs to |
| 1:07.1 | bring a multi multi multi multi billion dollar lawsuit. |
| 1:15.3 | I love the, like, yeah, I love how biblical these guys are about everything. |
| 1:17.4 | You betrayed me. |
| 1:19.4 | Not even that. |
| 1:22.1 | His legal team alleges that Altman, quote, |
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