Y Combinator - What Is Fun?

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In 2005, two years before the first iPhone was even invented, Sam and his friends were working on a mobile app. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham wanted to prove that young innovators with deep passions could find success if they were willing to take a gamble. "Love is all you need," says Dominique Ansel, New York chef who created the cronut.

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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