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Nick Winter

SVP, Frontier Lab Safety, Gray Swan. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Nick Winter co-founded the language platform Skritter and the gamified coding education platform CodeCombat, serving over 20 million learners. He authored the book The Motivation Hacker and conducts AI safety and jailbreaking research at Gray Swan.

What they said5 Shows1

Everything Nick Winter said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Y COMBINATOR Insight

Winter: Hard Game Levels Motivate Users to Learn Advanced Concepts

“And generally, if you make the levels hard enough, which you're able to do when they have a reason to complete it, they try really hard, then you can get them to do harder and harder stuff as a natural progression of the game.”

Nick Winter Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 3:37 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Disclosure

Winter: CodeCombat plans to open-source within a few months

“Yeah, so we're thinking open sourcing in the next couple months to really capitalize on the interest.”

Nick Winter Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 5:53 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated

Winter: CodeCombat's launch traffic overwhelmed servers for 24 hours

“We can only serve a certain fraction of the traffic that we're getting, and that's been going on for 24 hours.”

Nick Winter Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 1:35 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Disclosure

Winter: CodeCombat Focuses on Core Programming Before Software Engineering

“So the software engineering part of learning to be a developer, that's something we can add later, focusing on core programming for now.”

Nick Winter Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 2:58 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Disclosure

Winter: CodeCombat is a multiplayer game for learning to code

“So we are building a multiplayer programming game for teaching people how to code.”

Nick Winter Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 0:19 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Nick's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
Y COMBINATORLEDGER	SVP, Frontier Lab Safety, Gray Swan	1	5	—	full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast →