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TRASHFUTURE

*PREVIEW* Son of Sam Altman ft. Ed Zitron

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Ed Zitron returns to talk about the AI bubble, market concentration, and popular backlash. We also look ahead at what would happen when the AI bubble begins to pop. Check out Ed's work here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! MILO ALERT: Check out Milo's upcoming live shows here! MERCH ALERT TF Merch is still available here! Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Open AI turns out it's gone public and its revenues rock solid. Yep. Not losing anything.

0:06.2

Not losing a dime. No, no, no. It's Ed. We're back to do a big mega roundup of developments in the

0:13.2

AI economy. I try to sort of round some of those up for a while, save them for Ed, because it's just,

0:18.5

it's good to look at them all at once. And before we get into,

0:22.2

get into it, I mean, I'm going to say before we get into it, and another thing, like 50 times this

0:26.5

episode, because I have so much I want to talk about. Sam Altman's newest disclosure on the

0:31.9

previous Open AI investment round, which keep me honest on my numbers here, Ed, I believe has

0:36.3

valued it at $400,600 billion

0:38.8

simultaneously depending on who's buying and selling the shares. No, no, it's actually better than that.

0:43.2

It was $300 billion in April, and now they are doing a second employee share sale that has grown

0:48.2

from $5 to $8 to $10.3 billion at a valuation of $500 billion, which is around the market cap of Netflix.

0:55.9

But the best part is, is I generally think that when you think a company is going to survive,

1:00.3

you do like a $10.3 billion employee share sale.

1:03.7

I don't think that anyone has ever sold this many shares before.

1:07.3

And it's just like two weeks after Samuel, it was like, yeah, it's a bubble.

1:11.3

Yeah.

1:11.5

Check out this cool bag holding opportunity.

1:14.2

Yeah.

1:14.7

And what's great is they're selling shares.

1:17.7

This is what really melts my brain.

1:19.1

So they did an $8.3 billion round like a month ago.

1:22.6

And Dragon Air involved themselves in it.

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