Ilya
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Lemkin: Founders quitting solid startups for shiny trends always regret it
“Most of the founders I've worked with over my career that have done that, that have quit something pretty good to do the shiny penny they're not all Ilya. They've all, it's all been a net negative. All, all the times I've seen it, the ones that quit with somet…”
Jakob Pachocki and Ilya Sutskever overcame internal inertia to build OpenAI o1
“Even at a company like OpenAI, you would have people ask naturally, why do something when you have a machine that works? And fundamentally, you know, it's to the credit of, you know, Jakob, Ilya, many of the people who really had conviction and vision in this …”
Horowitz: Winning deals with Mira Murati or Ilya Sutskever proves investor capability
“How great an entrepreneur is Mira, or how great an entrepreneur is Ilya. Well, like, Those are pretty special people. So if you can win that deal like that, that means something, whether or not those companies work.”
McGrew: Ilya Sutskever was the guiding light shaping early OpenAI research
“Early on there were sort of, you know, a couple big projects, as I said, and then some room for exploratory research. And at the very earliest days, the exploratory research was really about you know, it's about what the researcher wanted to do, but also it wa…”
McGrew: OpenAI succeeded by balancing startup agility with opinionated scaling bets
“And we took a different approach, which was really more like a startup where there was no sort of big centralized plan. But at the same time, people didn't have, you know, it wasn't just sort of let a thousand flowers bloom. Instead we had opinions about what …”