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Altman: Most Investors Make Stressful Founder Situations Worse
“Most investors, I think, make stressful situations worse.”
Altman: Too many companies are training similar AI models without sticky products
“There's a lot of, there are probably too many people training very similar models, and if you're a little behind, or if you don't have a Product with the sort of normal rules of business that make that product sticky and valuable, then yeah, maybe you can't. M…”
Sam Altman: Early-career talent shouldn't lead high-stakes infrastructure engineering
“When you're like designing some of the most complex and massively expensive Computer systems that humanity has ever built, actually like pieces of infrastructure of any sort, then I would not be comfortable taking a bet on someone who is just sort of like star…”
Altman: Unprecedented AI ecosystem complexity is his single biggest concern
“So, it's, supply chain makes it sign, sound too much like a pipeline, but yeah, the overall ecosystem complexity at every level of, like, the fractal scam is unlike anything I have seen in any industry before. And some version of that is probably my top worry.”
Altman: The Cursor team has delivered a remarkable AI product experience
“Let me give a shout out to the cursor team. I mean, there's a lot of people doing incredible work in AI, but I think to really have, do what they'done and built, I thought about like a bunch of researchers I could name but in terms of using AI to deliver a rea…”
Altman: Venture capital offers a great quality-of-life trade-off
“For a quality of life job, it's a great, great trade-off.”
Altman: Excess capital funding bad startups harms the overall tech ecosystem
“Like, I think one thing that is bad is very bad companies, not YC companies, of course, but other very bad companies are able to raise money. Are able to raise lots of money that shouldn't, and I think that's bad for everyone. It's bad for the founders of thos…”
Sam Altman: Open source AI models and integrated APIs will coexist
“There's clearly a really important place in the ecosystem for open source models. There's also Really good open source models that now exist. I think there's also a place for, like, nicely offered, well integrated services and APIs, and, you know, I think it's…”
Altman: Anthropic has built an impressive AI model that excels at coding
“Yeah, they have a model that is great at coding for sure. And it's impressive work.”
Altman: Global geopolitical instability is the highest he has ever seen
“The whole thing just feels like way more on the whole situation of the world, the geopolitical thing, the sort of socioeconomic stuff, politics, it feels more unstable to me than it has felt since I've been paying attention. And there's no, like, one thing I w…”