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▶ 33:14 Lulu Cheng Meservey Sam Altman is really good at this. 4 times in the scene
▶ 39:29 Lulu Cheng Meservey Who else is like, I think Sam Altman has a fairly strong deterrent, but the way that you respond to attacks establishes how strong or weak of a deterrent that you have, and it's painful up front, but then it gets a lot easier later because…
▶ 1:25:56 Lulu Cheng Meservey Like, you see one founder on stage, they might be super impressive, and then if you were to see, like, Y Combinator had this event recently where it was just star parade, and if you were to see Gary Tan and Sam Altman and Elon Musk and…

▶ 34:28 Benedict Evans Now, OpenAI is doing weekly active users, and Sam Waltman was a social media startup founder. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:01:28 Benedict Evans Um, and he apparently, like, Sam Altman complained that Mark is offering people a hundred million dollars to join. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:07:36 Benedict Evans They've got this weird contentious relationship with Sam Altman and OpenAI, and it's basically not their models.

▶ 23:03 Ryan Petersen Again, I was really lucky because we were in his last batch and he announced like halfway through the batch that he was stepping down and Sam was taking over, but he kept running the batch the whole way.

▶ 12:26 Elad Gil Like people like Sam Altman or others who were very early in YC came out of Stanford, which was part of the main hub.
▶ 1:08:40 Elad Gil One could argue Sam Altman has sort of maintained that over a very long arc between YC and the early things he was involved with the investing side, and then of course now OpenAI and other areas.

▶ 4:59 Garry Tan You know, only a dozen people in that very first program in 2005, and then, um, out of that very first program, Sam Altman went through it, um, and Sam, you know, I, I guess it's interesting. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:05:49 Garry Tan You know, sort of the age of intelligence as, you know, Sam pointed out in a recent essay.
▶ 1:53:25 Garry Tan Um, I, I think that that remains to be seen, like the classic thing that Sam Altman has, ah, told YC companies, and, you know, told most startups, period, is you should count on the, ah, models getting better.
▶ 1:58:51 Garry Tan There's a non-zero, pretty large percentage of, like, the market cap of Microsoft that I think is pretty predicated on Sam Altman and the team at OpenAI continuing to be successful.
▶ 2:12:29 Garry Tan Sam Altman probably brought forward the future by, you know, five years, 10 years, at least 10 years. 5 times in the scene
▶ 2:16:57 Garry Tan We, you know, kind of like, I think, what Sam did with OpenAI with, you know, pulling forward large language models and AI and bringing about AGI sooner.

▶ 16:45 Bret Taylor Uh, everyone from, uh, Toby Lukey to Mark Benioff to Mark Zuckerberg to, uh, Sam at OpenAI, and I think when you have founded a company, all your stakeholders, employees in particular, uh, give you the benefit of the doubt. 2 times in the scene
▶ 53:28 Bret Taylor Um, again, uh, Zika or Sam might have a, a more complete answer here, but broadly I think about does the system that represents AGI, um, align with the intentions of the people created it and the intentions of the people operating it, um,…

▶ 39:31 Josh Wolfe If you're, um, an investor in, or you're Sam Altman in OpenAI, you're not only worried about competition, you're worrying about a personal grudge from somebody who has the ear of the president that can weaponize all kinds of, uh, systems… 2 times in the scene

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