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Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: evaluation
27 Feb 2019 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
“There’s lots of reasons the analogy doesn’t work, but this idea that a lot of things go wrong, you are unflappable, you never lose your cool, you know how to react.”
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- Sam Altman
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- 27 Feb 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Good. James Bond? Paul Graham used to say that the prototype for a good founder was James Bond. There’s lots of reasons the analogy doesn’t work, but this idea that a lot of things go wrong, you are unflappable, you never lose your cool, you know how to react. Bad things are happening to you left and right, and you are a survivor, and you always figure it out with whatever resource is in front of you. That part is the spirit of a great founder. What about Q? The guy in the lab who shows James Bond the gadgets. His explanations are so to the point. Would that impress you?…
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