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ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview

Mar 15, 2026 · 1h 4m

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In this BG2 guest interview, Altimeter Partner Apoorv Agrawal sits down with Nick Turley of OpenAI for a deep dive into how ChatGPT became one of the fastest-growing products in history—and what comes next. They discuss how OpenAI thinks about retention and product metrics, why long-term engagement matters more than raw growth, and how ChatGPT gets the next billion users. The conversation explores the future of AI assistants: moving beyond chat into proactive agents that can take actions, complete long-horizon tasks, and integrate deeply into users’ daily lives. Nick also shares how OpenAI balances product improvements with breakthrough research, how GPU constraints shape product decisions,…