How Do You Re-Invent a WY Combinator?

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I think the hardest thing in business is an organization that produces repeated innovation and success. When you have something that's working, putting it at risk to make it work better is not a bet that ever feels comfortable. Most things in life are two way doors. You can come back. I don'tknow what the sam alman of my generation is going to look like yet. But i don't think you should ever try to be somebody else or even take too much inspiration from some one else's life path.

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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