The Five Factors of a Successful Founder

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Ime, i think like a vision that some one feels compelled to make happening in the world is probably the most important of a super successful founder. The thing that i paul graham, who started why combinator, used to talk about people being relentlessly resourceful. You need to be a great communicator, which think is a very under appreciated skill because you have to commit so many people to rejoin you on this quest.

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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