Episode 526: The Optimist, the Origin, and the Deck
This week, we unpack The Optimist, the new Sam Altman biography; revisit OpenAI’s early days; and break down Coatue’s AI strategy deck. Plus, tips for squeezing in side projects between thought leadership presentations.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 526
Runner-up Titles
Flow State
Altman and AI
Day 2 Thinking
Growth Mindset
Less of you
You don't need a Harvard Business Review subscription to know that
Running unnecessary hardware in your house
Lifelong Costco member here.
Pre-populate Everything
There’s no ROI on a good hotdog
Rundown
AI Native vs. AI Add-on
AI Frenzy
The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab valued at $10bn after $2bn fundraising
ChatGPT's Enterprise Success Against Copilot Fuels OpenAI and Microsoft's Rivalry
Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued
Zuckerberg Leads AI Recruitment Blitz Armed With $100 Million Pay Packages
After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO
Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
Clouded Judgement 6.19.25 - The Dropping Cost of Intelligence
Coatue's 2025 EMW Keynote Replay
Slides in online PDF
Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more
Agents and the Web
Remote MCP support in Claude Code
Agentforce 3, it's agents all the way down.
Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog
Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce as Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure and Chris Aniszczyk as CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure to Oversee Major Open Source Initiatives
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs
Microsoft announces advancement in quantum error correction
Datadog DASH: A Revolving Door Of Operations And Security Announcements
the six-month recap: closing talk on AI at Web Directions, Melbourne, June 2025
Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students
Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
Checking In on AI and the Big Five
U.S. House tells staffers not to use Meta’s WhatsApp
How AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux Have Diverged Since CentOS
AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
10 years of platform engineering at SIXT: Lessons in scaling and innovation - Boyan Dimitrov
What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like
kubectl-ai
Nonsense
Costco Executive Members get extended hours
Listener Feedback
Warp
Conferences
CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com
Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com
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Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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Recommendations
Brandon: Discount Tire
Coté:
Brimstone Angels
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Photo Credits
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The Optimist, the Origin, and the Deck
Episode 526
June 27th, 2025
1 hr 12 mins
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About this Episode
This week, we unpack The Optimist, the new Sam Altman biography; revisit OpenAI’s early days; and break down Coatue’s AI strategy deck. Plus, tips for squeezing in side projects between thought leadership presentations.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 526
Runner-up Titles
- Flow State
- Altman and AI
- Day 2 Thinking
- Growth Mindset
- Less of you
- You don't need a Harvard Business Review subscription to know that
- Running unnecessary hardware in your house
- Lifelong Costco member here.
- Pre-populate Everything
- There’s no ROI on a good hotdog
Rundown
- AI Native vs. AI Add-on
- AI Frenzy
- The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
- Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab valued at $10bn after $2bn fundraising
- ChatGPT's Enterprise Success Against Copilot Fuels OpenAI and Microsoft's Rivalry
- Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued
- Zuckerberg Leads AI Recruitment Blitz Armed With $100 Million Pay Packages
- After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO
- Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
- Clouded Judgement 6.19.25 - The Dropping Cost of Intelligence
- Coatue's 2025 EMW Keynote Replay
- Slides in online PDF
- Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more
- Agents and the Web
- Remote MCP support in Claude Code
- Agentforce 3, it's agents all the way down.
- Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog
- Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce as Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure and Chris Aniszczyk as CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure to Oversee Major Open Source Initiatives
Relevant to your Interests
- Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs
- Microsoft announces advancement in quantum error correction
- Datadog DASH: A Revolving Door Of Operations And Security Announcements
- the six-month recap: closing talk on AI at Web Directions, Melbourne, June 2025
- Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students
- Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
- Checking In on AI and the Big Five
- U.S. House tells staffers not to use Meta’s WhatsApp
- How AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux Have Diverged Since CentOS
- AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
- 10 years of platform engineering at SIXT: Lessons in scaling and innovation - Boyan Dimitrov
- What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like
- kubectl-ai
Nonsense
- Costco Executive Members get extended hours
Listener Feedback
- Warp
Conferences
- CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
SDT News & Community
- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com
- Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com
Recommendations
- Brandon: Discount Tire
- Coté:
- Brimstone Angels
- Rebels of Reason: The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT and AI's Heroes Who Kept the Faith
Photo Credits
- Header
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