OpenAI DevDay: Dots, Agents & $100B Opportunities

I got to be real with you. I didn't think I'd be making this episode of the podcast. But I just watched almost 60 minutes of Sam Altman up on stage. And he launched a few things that I think are going to make people, in aggregate, billions of dollars. And I don't think that's a stretch. I think that there were 20 launches, feature launches today. But I think there was probably three or four that are so big that I think the people who figure out you know, use those features and to grab a slice of those billions of dollars of transactions that are going to be happening within the ChatGPT platform, I think they're going to be able to create some really, really big businesses. So I had to come on here and just break it down for you. You know, if you're new here, my name is Greg Eisenberg. I'm the host of the Startup Ideas podcast. I started and sold three venture-backed companies. I was an advisor to Reddit, TikTok, and And I come on here because I think that this is an incredible time to be building your ideas. And I think that in the age of AI, you can use tools like this to go and do that. So by the end of this episode, you're going to learn about the most important things that happened today that Sam Altman launched at Dev Day 2026. I'm going to give you some ideas and some frameworks for thinking about how you could come up with your own ideas so that you can grab a slice of that pie. And I'm just going to cut through the noise. So by the end of it, I'm just going to really focus on, for people interested in building businesses, making money around AI, this is the episode for you. So yes, like I said, there are 20 plus launches, feature launches today. The most important ones to me, the ones I think are the most interesting, and I think maybe for you, is let's start with dots so we have to talk about dots dots is the personal agent platform and it's their you know answer to muse by meta and their answer to instinct and you know what's really cool about it is they now have this front door where you're going to have access to the 1.2 billion weekly active users. That's what Sam Altman said today. People are going to go and use their personal agent platform, DOTS, and they're going to be asking questions. They're going to say, I need this permit fixed, or I have this request, or I'm looking for a restaurant that serves this. And ChatGPT is going to understand that job. And your plugin that you have made, which is essentially like a mini app, is going to get selected for the work. And we're going to talk about ways to surface that. But they've basically announced that plugins, they're doubling down on plugins. I think Sam said something around like, he didn't say it verbatim that it's, plugins were a failure. He didn't say that. But he did say something to the degree, I'm paraphrasing, that they had some mixed reviews on plugins. They're now doubling down on plugins. And I believe, Sam, that he's going to make plugins a thing, and he's going to try to make ChatGPT the app ecosystem for AI. And that's a huge announcement of today, and we're going to talk about some of the things. We'll go deeper on that. So your business, you want your business