Quora Session with Sam Altman

Some prompts for questions I find helpful:What mistakes did I make this week?What am I being an idiot about?What am I missing?What was my biggest success this week?What is my biggest bottleneck?What is the right lesson to take from this week?In an ideal version of this week, I would have […]What am I currently procrastinating about?Whose advice wil... See more

If you go out and all you do is make the same mistakes that I could have gotten in some other company, then there's no ROI on this investment […] I can buy those mistakes somewhere else. I think that, in some ways, this pursuit of original mistakes is sort what one is doing as a startup founder in a constructive way, right? […] It's a huge red flag... See more

Sam Altman What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in

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