fun facts

Founders Fund hosts a game of Mafia.

Founders Fund hosts a game of Mafia. “Venture capital firm Founders Fund gathered a group of tech leaders for an evening of Mafia, a murder mystery style parlor game. Players are secretly assigned roles and must use deception and debate […]

profiles of people

The intuitive way of investing.

The intuitive way of investing. “My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” said Joshua Kushner. Despite the massive success of his venture capital firm, Thrive Capital, Kushner seeks advice from […]

profiles of people

The man who ‘A.G.I.-Pilled’ Google.

“Mr. Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, has been dreaming of A.G.I. for years. When he joined Google in 2014 through the acquisition of DeepMind, the artificial intelligence start-up he co-founded, Mr. Hassabis was one of a handful of […]

big ideas

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 […]

tech, startups, internet

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 […]

tech, startups, internet

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 […]

better doing

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