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Sam Altman: belief

27 Feb 2019 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent

“I think being a single teen mother and coming through to the other side of that successfully is probably one of the hardest things that anyone can do in the world.”

— Sam Altman

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Speaker
Sam Altman
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
27 Feb 2019
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Let’s try a single teen mother, Aretha Franklin? Yes, on the spirit of this idea that grit and determination is the most important quality in a founder. I think being a single teen mother and coming through to the other side of that successfully is probably one of the hardest things that anyone can do in the world. Say filters we have set up to identify her as a single teen mother before she’s successful — what is it we should be looking for in Aretha Franklin?…

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