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Altman: No major tech leader has a master plan or smooth operations
“I will tell you, I think no one has a plan. No one really has it all working smoothly. Everyone, or at least I am figuring out as they go.”
Sam Altman Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 15:17 Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath
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Altman: AI alone does not create defensible businesses
“Using AI itself does not create a defensible business. You see this with every technology boom where people are like, well, I'm a startup doing X, and because I'm using the latest technology trend, the normal rules of business don't apply to me. And that's nev…”
Sam Altman Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 30:10 Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath
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Altman: AI startups only survive if foundational model updates improve their product
“If you build a business that gets better, the business gets better when the model gets better, then you should keep doing well if we continue to make progress. If you build a business where, when the model gets better, your business gets worse because the wrap…”
Sam Altman Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 31:46 Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath
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Altman: The best founders are fast-adapting learners, not bravado-driven planners
“The best founders that I have watched up close throughout my career have all been more like the sort of quick learning and adapting style.”
Sam Altman Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 18:31 Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath
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Sam Altman: Human desire and status games are limitless
“I do sort of think that human demand, desire, ability to play status games, whatever is, is like, it seems pretty limitless.”
Sam Altman Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 22:44 Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath
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