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Sam Altman: evaluation

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

“I have a funny metric on that. It probably doesn’t work for most people, but it is the number of times I get stopped on the street for a selfie.”

— Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
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evaluation
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27 Feb 2019
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Let’s say you visit a city abroad. You’ve either never been, or you haven’t been much. You have two, three days to look around — is this a promising center for a venture capital? What is it you look for? I have a funny metric on that. It probably doesn’t work for most people, but it is the number of times I get stopped on the street for a selfie. [laughter] It’s a good metric, and it correlates positively.…

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