
Sam Altman: Entrepreneurial prodigy, Y Combinator President and OpenAI CEO
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
How Did You Become a Hacker?
I was sort of very into mobile phones. And this is before iPhone, right? Way before. Three years before. I had a palm tree at the time to date it. Yep. Which was a good device. Yeah. And I was really cool for having one. Let me tell you, because most people had flip phones. It was like the, I was like being deal. You know, I probably wasn't cool either. I fell in my heart. Anyway, so I started like hacking on this with some friends. They're going to give us $12,000 and we got in and did it. And then I just kept going.
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