Nick Turley

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525 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 6 Jun

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BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley · ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview · 15 Mar 2026 podcast

So the type of user who subscribes to ChatGPT Pro, who used Codex before it quite worked, who is now the strongest advocate of tools like Togets and teaching us what's possible, that is an incredibly valuable member of the community.

And it might not show up in your weekly active users.

It's just one number, right?

But this is exactly why there isn't a single North Star.

And you really need to take these different segments very seriously.

I love building for power users.

yeah um and uh you know you you asked on you know token consumption etc it's so fascinating to see there's people who get incredible value um out of these products and uh watching what they do is very informative okay so so we're very focused on the entire user base um learn a lot from the power users um you know the other thing i might say is the power users right now are getting um

And pricing, there's no world in which pricing doesn't significantly evolve when the technology is changing this quickly, right?

ChatGPT originally was entirely free.

And the reason for that was that it was intended to be a demo.

and we were going to wind it down after a month.

We then realized that the demo went viral, and people loved the demo, and it was actually a product.

But we realized that to be a product, you can't take the product down every time you're at capacity.

So we shipped subscriptions simply because it could shape the demand.

was a way of gracefully turning users away when we had to turn away someone and it felt like the fairest and most equitable way of doing so is saying, hey, you know, if you really need this product, pay a subscription fee and you got it.

Then we figured out how to make the product stable and we had the choice of do we keep the subscription thing or do we go back to free and we realized we had consistently more tech that we couldn't scale, GPT-4 being the first example because we had way too many free users to serve GPT-4 and we put it behind the plus plan.

And so the way we stumbled into subscriptions was sort of accidental by trying to just solve for the user.

And it felt like the right way at the time to provide maximal access to our tech.

Since then, we've had so many other breakthroughs, including test time compute, where you can scale up intelligence kind of as much as you want, more or less.

And it took us in the entire industry a little bit of time to turn that into product value, but we're here now.

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