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Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: prediction
27 Feb 2019 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
“I think we have scaled to an incredible degree already, and we will, over time, figure out how to get another 10x and then another 10x after that.”
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- 27 Feb 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What’s the most binding constraint on your ability to scale, if that’s the difference? Greater interest in scaling your own activity? I think we have scaled to an incredible degree already, and we will, over time, figure out how to get another 10x and then another 10x after that. Someday we will fund all the companies in the world, all the good ones at least. But it’s unclear where the scaling limits are. I come from a software background, and one of the things that I learned is, you can always scale systems more than you think, and you can never predict ahead of time where the choke points are going to be. You profile the code and figure out where you need to optimize, and you optimize that. That’s the continual evolution of Y Combinator. This is from Wikipedia, and I quote: “In functional programming, the Y combinator can be used to formally define recursive functions in a programming language that does not support recursion.” Why did you name the company Y Combinator?…
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