Are You as Good at Spotting Upper Middle Class Intellectual Talent as Super Star Founders?

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Do you have the same competitive edge as with spotting geniuses who will make rapidly scalable tech companies? I mean, i think that's how i'd characterize myself, my upper middle class, pretty smart, not a super genius by any means. And i turns out it like i've met many people rter than me, but i would say i've only ever met a handful of people that are obviously more curious than me. "I don't think raw icue is my biggest strength," he says.

Founders aren’t superheroes, says Sam Altman.They may play extreme sports, respond to emails within seconds, and start billion-dollar companies, but they are rarely the product of extraordinary circumstance. In fact, they tend to be solidly upper-middle class, reasonably smart, and with loving parents.

So would Sam fund Peter Parker? What about Bruce Wayne?

Tyler and Sam discuss these burning questions and more, including what’s wrong with San Francisco, Napoleon’s underrated skill, nuclear energy, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution, his rant against coworking spaces, UBI and AGI, risk and regret, optimism and beauty, and why venture capitalists don’t have superpowers either.

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Recorded January 28th, 2019 Other ways to connect

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