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serious question, why is Sam Altman held in such high regard by so many people? as far as I can tell, his career was: 1. a startup that went nowhere and faile
by bananapub 2y ago
serious question, why is Sam Altman held in such high regard by so many people? as far as I can tell, his career was:
1. a startup that went nowhere and failed
2. getting hired by YC to hand out other people's money
3. being fired, personally, by paulg for reasons unknown
4. this world coin nonsense
5. getting hired as a (non-technical) CEO of OpenAI
how did he manage that? why do so many people consider him a visionary / amazing manager / such as hot hire? what am I missing?
- Yizahi 2y agoBecause he is a messiah who will create a god, we puny humans will be worshiping. /s
- tim333 2y agoDunno. He does quite interesting projects- fusion, agi, ubi, world id etc. Also here's a paste from an Atlantic article: >But Graham had always had intense convictions about Altman. “Within about three minutes of meeting him, I remember thinking, ‘Ah, so this is what Bill Gates must have been like when he was 19,’” Graham once wrote. Altman, too, excelled at making Graham and other powerful people in his orbit happy—a trait that one observer called Altman’s “greatest gift.” As Jessica Livingston, another YC co-founder, would tell The New Yorker in 2016, “There wasn’t a list of who should run YC and Sam at the top. It was just: Sam.” Altman would smile uncontrollably, in a way that Graham had never seen before. “Sam is extremely good at becoming powerful,” Graham said in that same article. He seems a good deal maker but a bit sneaky and shifty.