Sam Altman

7 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 19, 2023 by Sam Altman · across every show →

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Jul 19, 2023
Insight
Sam Altman: Startups rarely turn lukewarm users into lovers later
“Everyone's like, well, I'm just going to get a lot of people to like me, and then I'll figure out how to make them love it later. In practice that's really rare. I would challenge you to think of an example.”
Sam Altman Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 31:25 OpenAI's Sam Altman: Customer love is all you need | Masters of Scale
Jul 19, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Altman: Alan Kay Gifted Him a Xerox Alto Computer
“Oh Alan Kay gave me a Alto.”
Sam Altman Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 7:38 OpenAI's Sam Altman: Customer love is all you need | Masters of Scale
Jul 19, 2023
Insight
Sam Altman: True blitzscaling requires getting the product right first
“The hard kind of blitzscaling is where you try to start scaling up before the product is really great, and then most of your effort in scaling is to generate demand. So I think the number one most important insight about how to blitzscale is that the good kind…”
Sam Altman Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 30:04 OpenAI's Sam Altman: Customer love is all you need | Masters of Scale
Aug 29, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Grazer: Sam Altman helped model Imagine Impact after Y Combinator
“It was completely modeled after Y Combinator. And in fact, Sam Altman and Paul Graham were great help.”
Brian Grazer Aug 29, 2023 ▶ 28:08 Brian Grazer: Scale your curiosity | Masters of Scale
Apr 24, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: Scaling AI compute will yield massive progress regardless of AGI
“Whether or not you think AGI is, is high probability, medium probability, low probability, wherever you are in that spectrum, you will be creating really interesting increases in cognitive capability of these systems. Say they can't raise seven trillion or not…”
Reid Hoffman Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 4:00 Reid Hoffman on OpenAI’s $7 trillion plan, Apple’s Vision Pro, and AI traps | Masters of Scale
Aug 8, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Bret Taylor reveals both OpenAI factions asked him to mediate crisis
“And then when the governance crisis happened and, you know, I got some phone calls from both the outgoing board and, Sam and Greg and others were, you know I'm paraphrasing, but there was some mutual trust that I could help mediate the outcome and there weren'…”
Bret Taylor Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 16:06 OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: Sam Altman Backed Flex Despite Knowing Little About Periods
“I interviewed with Sam Altman, and I remember Sam was like, I don't know a lot about periods, but it seems like a really big space, and it seems like there's not been any innovation, and I think you're gonna be the person to do this.”
Lauren Wang Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 16:39 How The Flex Company disrupted menstrual care (with founder & CEO Lauren Wang) | Masters of Scale
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