What Are the Qualities of Good and Bad Founders?

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YC is trying to support the 90 or 95 or 99 % of talented people that it may be missing. The most important thing we can do is grow, but that will take some time. We have tried to open source everything we know about start ups and at least make that part widely available a. Were going to try to launch another one to morrow. But we have things like hacker news. We trie to like make a bunch ofike groups on line.

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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