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I’d take a look at the material and his writings before making that kind of judgement. Besides being smart, he seems to have a lot more humility than most of t
by lonesomewhistle 6y ago
I’d take a look at the material and his writings before making that kind of judgement. Besides being smart, he seems to have a lot more humility than most of the people who give advice about startups, and he’s seen an unusually high number of startups throughout the process so he is in a great position to observe what works and what doesn’t. I’d much rather hear what he has to say than someone with one successful exit, mostly because I’ve come to trust his mind observational skill and his humble demeanor over the years.
Most of these videos had counterintuitive information that I was happy to have heard before getting started — especially since I came from a completely different industry. They won’t tell you near everything you need to know to get started, but nothing will so as far as these things go I found them to be very helpful.
- augustt 6y agoMaybe I'm not seeing the right material but when I watch stuff like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lJKucu6HJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lJKucu6HJc from him, all I hear are mind-numbing platitudes. Having a "sensible business model" might have been my favorite piece of advice from that one.
- simonswords82 6y agoVery happy for you to disagree with me friend. My mentor is super successful, one of the smartest people I've worked with...he's never started a business. I don't think he could. Just because you understand the theory doesn't mean you can start a business. That's all I'm hoping to point out. I wish to take nothing away from Sam's success. In purely monetary terms Sam is infinitely more successful than I might ever be.
- vincentmarle 6y ago> he seems to have a lot more humility than most Sorry, are you talking about the same Sam Altman who wrote about "life advice" when he turned 30? https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades... Or the Sam Altman who tells us: - How to invest in Startups https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-invest-in-startups https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-invest-in-startups - How to be successful https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful - etc. Sam Altman is a PG wannabe, but without the actual insights and experience
- naveen99 6y agoI like his life advice. Do you have any issues with any specific advice or just his age at the time it was written ? You want to go in the right direction, age is irrelevant. Think more about what you want to be doing. Being ageist is not what you want to be doing.
- simonswords82 6y agoI think too many people are looking to other people for advice. Most need to find their answers from within.
- naveen99 6y agoAdvice by definition is from outside. What does it matter where the answers come from as long as they pass a sanity test from within.
- lonesomewhistle 6y agoI mean, yeah. That post says “life advice” but it reads more like “things I fucked up in my twenties.”
- redis_mlc 6y ago> he seems to have a lot more humility So what?