“I feel like I’m allowed to trash investors because I was one for most of my career,” Sam Altman told Colossus last month. “Most investors don’t work that hard, they’re usually not available for midnight calls or won’t drop everything to fly across the country on short notice to do a small favor for you the next day. Josh is consistently willing to... See more

‘The true road lies in quite another direction.’

Asked what he made of the scene at Trump’s second inauguration, he smirked. “That weekend I spoke with my brother several times, and we reminisced about all the people who made his life and our family’s lives miserable for four years, and were all there celebrating now as if they had won the election themselves,” he said. “The world is very

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“It’s a boast to say we will be the next J.P. Morgan,” Nohria clarified. “We’re not there. But I think we will have the opportunity. With AI, data centers, the associated energy and chips, these are our equivalent of Morgan’s railroads and steel. Like with Stripe and OpenAI: You need a person and institution that can come into these complicated,... See more

“What is to man is to man; what is to God is to God; what is to business is to business.”

I was also just eager to be with another young person who was finding a way to build and create, and not have to wait 10 or 15 years before you get your chance

“Do you know the biggest mistake most musicians make?” he said. “Their first album comes from love, heartbreak, passion, or depression. They have no expectation of how the world will respond. They write it from the heart, and if it catches on, they’re validated by the world. But then they start writing their second album, and they don’t necessarily... See more

When you live with someone as resilient as she was and persevered through so much tragedy, you feel determined to make something of yourself.

“Think about it,” Mallick said. “We started with a $20–30 million check, and then created the opportunity to make it the most concentrated, consequential investment Thrive’s ever made up to that point. GitHub is the most strategic asset in software, and we become one of the company’s most meaningful partners. We go from 1% to 10% holders and get... See more