> Even most leaders of the Republican party refused to get on stage at the RNC to support Trump. Thiel did. The reason for that is very simple. They don't have

> Even most leaders of the Republican party refused to get on stage at the RNC to support Trump. Thiel did. The reason for that is very simple. They don't have "fuck you" money or "fuck you" careers. They need to be careful of what they say and what they do. Peter Thiel doesn't and to a lesser extent neither does Sam or Paul. They probably will still have an oversupply of highly qualified people acting in their own self interest who want to take advantage of YC and all it offers. Ditto for investors and so on. A much different situation than a politician. > But we are all very much entitled to criticize what Altman is doing, and we would be doing Altman no favors by withholding that criticism. In all honesty Sama goes up many notches in my (non-important to anyone but me) ranking system for what he is doing. Even given my previous thoughts on the actual impact to him business wise or personally (I am sure anyone who needs him will still seek him out and forget about all of this.)