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Stripe CEO interviews OpenAI CEO.

Patrick Collison fires question after question at Sam Altman, and gets pretty thoughtful answers in return. One interesting fact: ChatGPT is really the only AI product that Altman uses. And his most common use case is summarization. They also get […]

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Interview with Sam Altman of OpenAI.

From How I Built This: “Sam talks about his journey from Stanford dropout and teenage entrepreneur to president of the legendary startup incubator Y Combinator and co-founder of the nonprofit OpenAI. Plus, Sam shares his hopes and fears for the […]

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Eye-scanning silver orb cryptocurrency.

“Over the summer, the world learned that tech investor Sam Altman was plotting to co-found a new startup that struck many as dystopian, albeit light on details: a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin that is distributed by scanning people’s eyeballs with an […]

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Idea generation

An essay from Sam Altman: “The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup.” | learn more

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Hard startups

Sam Altman writes, “The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.” | learn more

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How to be successful.

Sam Altman, who recently stepped down as CEO of YCombinator, shares “13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier success” based on his observing “thousands of founders and [thinking] a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount […]