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World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:06:50 unnamed speaker I think Sam Altman just kind of came and just said that he thinks that there's definitely an architecture that's going to be more performant than the transformer.
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:24 Paul Graham Surprisingly often, you'll see Brian Chesky or Sam Altman, right, and think to yourself, all right,
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:41 Amjad Masad So when we, when we came in and Sam stood, uh, uh, when he was still running it, Sam stood in front of the batch and said, 3 times in the scene
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:46 unnamed speaker We've all here heard of the OpenAI founding story, and something that's always struck with me is just like both Sam and Greg say that it was a little odd in the early days because they didn't actually know what to do.
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:01 Spencer Skates Um, I, I mean, it's going to sound extraordinarily reductive, but I, I think, I think Sam Altman is the best salesperson of, of this generation by no bar none. 3 times in the scene
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:16 Mike Mignano One of the roles is just to consume and let the model train on your interests, but maybe the more interesting thing, and we've sort of seen hints of this with Sora, I think Sam published a blog post that kind of hinted at this, is kind of…
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:15 Jake Heller When you replace or substantially assist certain jobs, like people used to, Sam Altman wrote about this in a recent essay, people used to have a job called lamp lighters, where we didn't have like, you know, electricity and lights.
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:57 David Lieb You, me, and this guy named Sam Altman. 4 times in the scene
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:59 Michael Truell And, uh, Sam's essays too, also, and a bunch of the folks in YC, and that was definitely a big inspiration, even from the very early stages of, of high school.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:21 Dylan Field Uh, but Sam is one of those people that, you know, he's, he's right about a lot of stuff, so I, I would encourage you if you just dismissed it outright,
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:58 David Lieb Um, I think if Sam Altman were still on the stage today, he would say, 2 times in the scene
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:04 Jared Friedman I think that's why Sam said at the beginning of the, of the event yesterday, this is the best fucking time in history to start a company.
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:23 Bob McGrew Um, I think, you know, for, for a lot of the early people who were startup people, you know, Sam, Greg, myself, um, it felt sort of painful and, and, and a little academic, but at the same time, it was sort of what we could do at the time.
- ▶ 29:07 Garry Tan I remember working with Sam Altman at YC and, you know, he was bringing in some pretty wild hard tech companies like Helion focused on fusion or Oclo.
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:26 Garry Tan Since then, Sam has told me that he actually wants to go to four orders of magnitude.
- ▶ 1:15 Garry Tan Recently, Sam Altman wrote this pretty wild essay that predicted that AGI 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48 Jared Friedman And so what was cool to me reading this essay is that it's literally the same ideas that Sam was talking about in. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:21 Diana Hu It's fun, because we run this, um, hackathon with OpenAI, and Sam came over and judged the winners, and one of the participants was actually Chip Design.
- ▶ 12:00 Garry Tan Since then, Sam has, uh, told me that he actually wants to go to four orders of magnitude to get to a trillion dollars in, uh, you know, sort of spend. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 Jared Friedman Sam was just telling us that like O-two and O-three are not far behind.
- ▶ 34:00 Diana Hu To connect to Sam's essay is a lot of things that are going to make the atom world, physical world better because it's really good at math and physics.
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
Jared Friedman - Advice for Hard-tech and Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:22 Jared Friedman Here is a quote by Sam Altman that sounds like a complete paradox. 4 times in the scene
EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:36 Craig Cannon Because you did an episode with PG and Sam, and they talked about it.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:44 Ryan Hoover Uh, yeah, it was Sam
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:57 Paul Buchheit Sam's company, Justin and Emmett's company, Kiko, um, were all in that batch.
- ▶ 33:32 Geoff Ralston The, for somewhat unclear reasons, this reminds me of a, of a, another Paul Bukitism, which is, ah, that, that Sam actually, ah, repeated in his introduction to the course, which was that, you know, what a company really needs is…
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:54 Shola Akinlade I just, he just, he sent that email, um, and copied all, everybody, Sam, Michael, everybody, and I'm like, what is this?
Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:27 Geoff Ralston I would really recommend you look at the, ah, video of Sam Altman talking to Ron Conway, Mark Andreessen, Parker Conrad from Zenefits, at the time, rippling now, when they talk about
Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:13 Geoff Ralston Well, Startup School began a couple of years ago with a course Sam taught online called How to Start a Startup.
- ▶ 4:05 Geoff Ralston Sam Altman, who's the president of Y Combinator, will be giving a talk.
- ▶ 22:05 Geoff Ralston He worked on it with Sam last year.
Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:42 Jessica Livingston Um, Reddit was in that first batch, and the founders of Twitch, although they were working on a different idea, and Sam Altman's geolocation startup.
Announcing Work at a Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:21 Jared Friedman Justin Kahn and Sam Altman are going to give keynote talks about working at a startup, why you should work at a startup, how to judge startups, what kind of compensation you should be looking for, how to negotiate an offer.
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:29 Liz Wessel You know, I said to Sam Altman right after YC, I was at, like, lunch or dinner, and, um, and he was there, and we were sitting next to each other, and I turned to him and I said, you know, the thing that I've had to learn about the most…
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:15 Vivek Ravisankar It was PG, Sam, Harge, Jessica, and Paul Bouquet.
- ▶ 18:18 Vivek Ravisankar Uh, and I, and I remember PG and Sam, uh, correcting me from everything to, um, the, even the tiny nuances.
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:30 Paul Buchheit I think Sam touched on this yesterday.
Dalton Caldwell - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:56 Geoff Ralston I will point out, as Sam said yesterday, that one of the worst things you can do as an investor is to be sheep. 2 times in the scene
Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:30 Michael Seibel because the second I started writing angel investment checks, Sam told me this lesson, and then I ignored him for two and a half years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:48 Michael Seibel Um, if Sam was here, he probably would tell me I should be writing 250 K checks.
Carolynn Levy and Kirsty Nathoo - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:36 Carolynn Levy A quick word about process, and then we had some advice that Sam kind of covered, but we'll talk, we'll just reiterate it because it's important.
- ▶ 2:46 Carolynn Levy Ok, so a lot of you raised your hand when Jeff asked, or Sam asked, how many people have already angel invested. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:42 Carolynn Levy The first, um, one extreme end would be, you know, a home run situation, and by home run, actually I think Sam mentioned this as well, this term, this is where an acquiring company is coming in and paying a lot of money for the startup you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Carolynn Levy Ok, so, as I mentioned, Sam kind of already said some of this stuff. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:54 Carolynn Levy And also, you need to remember, you do have prorata rights, and remember Sam made the point that you need to exercise those, because yes, you are going to get really, really, really diluted, because you're the early money, but if you can't… 3 times in the scene
It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:48 Sam Chaudhary Um, I think actually Sam Altman said this, that you get to about 25 people and your job shifts from building the product to building the culture, and it kind of stays there.
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:46 Ryan Hoover Um, I remember Sam, Sam was one of them and it's just like, you cut me off a couple of times and I came prepared knowing that.
Scaling Culture | Jason Kilar, former Hulu CEO · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:12 Jason Kilar Um, because when you're, as Sam and Reed were saying, when you're a team of 30, good intentions are good enough.
- ▶ 9:41 Jason Kilar And, um, as Reed and Sam were saying earlier, um, a lot of companies do this.
- ▶ 15:53 Jason Kilar And Reed and Sam talked about the things that you need to do through interviewing, which we absolutely did at Hulu as well in terms of, I think probably for the first 500 team members, I interviewed everybody as well, is, um, you obviously…
- ▶ 16:37 Jason Kilar In the New York Times, uh, about a year ago, maybe a year and a half ago, about its culture or its workplace conditions, um, and I feel very, very strongly about this that, um, uh, and Sam mentioned this about how do you build a company…
An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:30 Wojciech Zaremba Um, supported by, um, Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Jessica Livingston at Female Founders Conference 2014 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:06 Jessica Livingston Um, you can see Sam Altman right there. 2 times in the scene