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Jack Altman

General Partner, Benchmark; Co-Founder & former CEO, Lattice, Benchmark

Search every verified Jack Altman interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jack Altman, a general partner at Benchmark and co-founder and executive chairman of Lattice, appeared on a podcast episode dated October 1, 2026, discussing topics including AI investment, open-source software, and executive compensation. He stated that current market conditions make it difficult to determine the correct investment pace, saying "we're definitely not investing at the right speed" and that "the odds of having it right are zero" when both valuations and outcomes are unusually high. He also expressed the view that open-source software has reached its maximum market share and will decline, though he noted that even a 50% decline in open-source share could still yield good investments if total consumption grows tenfold. During the same appearance, Altman commented on the reported $500 million annual package offered by Meta to MongoDB's CEO, suggesting that such a sum would be a tenfold increase and that the offer was compelling enough to lure a sitting CEO away from that role. He also discussed a draft S1 filing from Anthropic, noting that founder control provisions appeared as item 17 on the agenda after risk disclosures, and remarked that public market investors would likely accept such terms given the context of activist pressure.

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“I think open source has reached its maximum as a market share. I think it's going to keep going down. Even if it goes down by 50% and total consumption goes up by 10x, you still have good investments. I'm not saying that there's not an almost infinite amount of inference, but I think we've reached peak open weights.”

“We're in a moment in time where everything valuations are extraordinarily high and then traction and outcomes and all these other things are extraordinarily high. And so people are like, do you think we're investing at the right speed? And I'm like, we're definitely not investing at the right speed. We are either investing way too fast or way too slow. But when both sides of the equation are this out of whack, the od”

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