Is Peter Parker a Super Hero?

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i think you should fund peter parker. Tell me about him. Just don't know enough to say. Of course, he's spider man. But the impressive thing is, he has these little devices on his wrists that shoot out web. And those are not spider man powers at all. That's a technological device that he implemented. The first time he'd actually tried it, he couldn't have really known for sure that it worked. So i would give the big thumgs up to pPeter parker. In some sense, like the super hero i would most want ta fund would be that man,. Because he doesn't have super powers, and he's just a resource

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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