IPOs: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
IPOs came up in 14 of 89 episodes (16%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (20%).
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 14 episodes behind the newest bar
- Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- John Arnold Joins, 4 Tech Arguments (Number 3 Will Shock You)TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 4 times
- Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 13 times
- Adam Foroughi, Applovin CEO: Surviving a 92% Drawdown, Ads as ML 1.0 & the $50B Game Ad M…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 20 · said it twice
- Some Personal Agent News, CharlestonAI Founder Joins, 10%, Mikey Shulman, Keith RaboisTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B CollapseAll-In Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 11 times
- Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes…20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · said it 4 times
- Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · said it 17 times
- Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson DebateTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 7 times
- WE'RE BACK: Meta Addiction, Jalapeño, Tim Cook's Last Day, FlockedTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 5 times
- The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTOLatent Space · week ending Sep 6 · said it 4 times
- GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuel…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 14 times
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…winner of 2026. Your prediction. I said the IPO. I think 2026 is going to be a big year for IPOs. I'm not going to say…”
“…different business lines, and arrange things. This is sort of after the IPO, and I realized I have to be a very "serious" public company CEO. And so it almost killed the company, honestly.”
“…honest approach to it. A 25 time sales. I saw the SpaceX IPO headlines today, which implied I think 100 time sales.”
Cloudflare: Leading Cybersecurity [Business Breakdownes Ep 241]Cloudflare Final
“…of what happens next there and how it incredibly ends up with the IPO of Ferrari.”
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“When someone like OpenAI needs an investment of a $30 billion scale because it's still before their IPO, and we deeply believe in them and I deeply believe that they're going to be an… Well, they're an extraordinary company already today. They’re going to be an incredible company.”
“SpaceX's perspective is they couldn't do it before the IPO cuz you can't close that deal. It delays everything. It's…”
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Can…
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…how many people made $100 million in the SpaceX IPO? And we don't know who they are or what they do. I mean, they…”
Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…
“And I think then that sets up a very interesting setup for their IPO. Just to back all that up, Saxs,…”
Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…
“…at 5%. In which case, yeah, we can justify the $2 trillion IPO, but it doesn't have massive expansion from…”
Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes…
“And there's, you know, talks about them going IPO and all this. And so, very much, even externally, you can see…”
The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTO
“…like in a few years? You got Anthropic and Open AI racing to IPO, see where that goes. You've got Mythos / Fable…”
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Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 5 | 20 |
| All-In Podcast | 4 | 24 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 4 | 14 |
| Latent Space | 1 | 2 |
| The Tim Ferriss Show | 0 | 5 |
| Acquired | 0 | 2 |
| My First Million | 0 | 2 |
| No Priors | 0 | 2 |
| Founders Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “IPO” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.