The Most Important Thing You Can Get to Be a Founder?

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Unovatali: I suspect the answer is education, but that's only part of it. Nuclear energy is by far the safest form of energy humanity has ever created. If you had 200 million dollars to distribute, what would you do with it? Unovatali says he'd invest in start-ups on condition they moved to saint louis.

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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