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Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto

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Last discussed Oct 19, 2026

A popular open-world action-adventure video game series known for its criminal themes and gameplay.

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"You're playing Grand Theft Auto and you're wondering, does the non-player character in Grand Theft Auto know that they are in a video game or not?"

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Shaan Puri
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vs: Compared to Pong as an illustration of rapid graphical advancement

"We go from Pong which is like two lines and a dot on a screen to where we have video games today that's like a 30 40 year period — Grand Theft Auto type of stuff."

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John Coogan
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"Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming out. I want you to pre-order it, get it installed, and open it up and do the little config."

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Tom Bilyeu
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"People are estimating that between the marketing and the building out of Grand Theft Auto 6, that was $2 billion."

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"When I first saw GTA 5, I was blown away. And this is like whatever, it's just more of the same."

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Blake Anderson
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vs: Used as an analogy for entrepreneurship — both are engaging enough that you'd...

"An analogy I've been using with my friends recently is if you were playing GTA, would you ever go put your character down and watch TV for 4 hours? No, you would not do that ever. And I think that for us entrepreneurship is that game."

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Peter Ludwig
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Used for: Used as a reference point for the evolution from traditional graphics-based games to world model-based simulations Praised: Pioneered open-world sandbox gaming as a simulated city environment vs: Compared to the future GTA 7, which Ludwig speculates will be world model-bas...

"I think Grand Theft Auto 6 will be perhaps the last major real-world video game that's still really developed in that legacy era of traditional computer graphics tooling. I think Grand Theft Auto 7 will much more likely be like a world model-based..."

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Donald Hoffman
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"Suppose that you're trying to play some kind of video game like Grand Theft Auto. A lot of people are still playing that game. When you play the game, you see cars and virtual roads and buildings and so forth, and you see a steering wheel, and you..."

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Joe Rogan
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"Maybe it just puts you in a simulation where you're allowed to do like Grand Theft Auto, but in real life."

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"So it was like the first Grand Theft Auto really kind of. I mean Grand Theft Auto came out around then too actually."

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Strauss Zelnick
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Used for: Entertainment gaming with social online experiences Praised: Most valuable entertainment IP, constantly updated content, highly social exp... vs: Most successful video game franchise by revenue

"Grand Theft Auto is the most successful media property of all time. I think in terms of the value of the IP, most people believe it's the most valuable entertainment IP ever created."

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