Nick Winter

SVP, Frontier Lab Safety, Gray Swan · 1 appearance on the record.

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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.

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Everything Nick Winter said on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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

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

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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

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

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

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator	Oct 26, 2013	3m

Nick Winter

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