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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 would have maybe said 10 years ago that raw IQ is the thing that matters most for founders. I’ve updated my view on that.”

— Sam Altman

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

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…So someone else has to find the geniuses. Again, I don’t want to go for false modesty here. I think I’m a smart person. The founders we fund are smart people. I would have maybe said 10 years ago that raw IQ is the thing that matters most for founders. I’ve updated my view on that. How useful is personality psychology, in the classic five-factor sense, for judging potential founders?…

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