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Sam Altman said something to the effect of 'OpenAI has the highest talent density of any company'. OpenAI is modest in employee count and extreme in employee t

• Solvency 3y ago
  Can we define talent. Also context matters. Some companies have lower "talent density" because their size requires some level of operational headcount.
  • ericlewis 3y ago
    I know more than half a dozen extremely top of their field for sure engineers who work there. Even having them would be an insane concentration of talent imo.
• poisonborz 3y ago
  Talent is not universal though. A great product/team/workplace can turn unmotivated middling knowledge people into heroes. Not only is massively more worth to raise talent in-house, heterogenous teams are way more healthy. Early Googlers wrote litanies on this. They can pay it, it sounds good for investors/general public, but if you take away the brand/hype fapping on "we only have the best" would sounds like a red flag to an experienced engineer.
• IshKebab 3y ago
  Maybe for its size but I bet there are lots of smaller companies with higher talent density, e.g. Oxide Computer.