Are You a Venture Capitalist?

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I think our greatest differentiator is not how we identify talental i will answer that question. But the fact that we treat our own business, we run wy combinator in the way that we tell our start ups to run. Is a successful start up, which almost no venture capital firm does. I come from sophoor background, in one of the things that i learned is you can always scale systems more than you think. You can never predict ahead of time where the choke points are going to be. And so you profile the code, you figure out where you need t optomiz n you optomize that. Some day we will find all the company in the world,

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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