Sam Altman - The Kingmaker in Silicon Valley

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Why Commoniner has become known as a kingmaker in Silicon Valley. Their alumni include Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit and more than 40 companies that are valued at $100 million or more. Sam Altman looks for startups that showed these early signs of love from their users. He pattern matches with history. Think about his private collection of engineering milestones.

The true seed of scale is customer love, which you can’t buy, hack, or game. Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator, scaled countless start-ups by focusing on this one idea: Finding 100 users who love you is better than 1 million who kinda like you. As CEO of OpenAI, Sam leads the creation of genuinely useful AI products. He shares timeless insights in his interview from 2018 on how to build on the love of passionate customers to create world-shifting tools.

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