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by sama 10y ago
We've started giving money to a small pilot group. We're still working out the kinks but expanding it slowly. The plan is still to run the pilot until we're confident everything is working well (especially with issues like m
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OpenAI Universe(universe.openai.com)
1021 points by sama 10y ago|129 comments
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by sama 10y ago
We support free speech, obviously. And we're happy to fund people with all sorts of different political views. We do not allow harassment, for which Andrew unfortunately set a new bar in our community. You can look at his Twitter or
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by sama 10y ago
two errors!
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by sama 10y ago
I counted at least 5 factual errors in the photo caption and first 3 paragraphs. We also heard that this reporter was 'encouraged' to write this by someone from a competing accelerator with an obvious agenda. Seems like manufactur
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Help Your Users Vote(medium.com)
29 points by sama 10y ago|17 comments
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Why More Minority Founders Should Apply to Y Combinator(medium.com)
4 points by sama 10y ago|1 comments
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by sama 10y ago
I think those organizations were wrong to support SOPA, and it was wrong for us to say we wouldn't invite them to Demo Day.
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by sama 10y ago
Yes--honestly, for me this is much more about not electing Trump than electing Clinton.
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by sama 10y ago
Also, a reminder of what I personally think about Trump from early this summer: http://blog.samaltman.com/trump
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by sama 10y ago
I understand the confusion since they share a word, but they are entirely different. EG part-time partners don't have a legal vote in the direction of YC.
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by sama 10y ago
You seem to continue to try to deliberately misunderstand this, but he is not a YC partner. He is a part-time partner, which means he spends a small fraction of his time advising YC companies, but does not have equity in YC.
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by sama 10y ago
There are plenty of hard tech software startups. But I see how unclear this is; fixing now. Thanks.
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by sama 10y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/
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by sama 10y ago
What we've thought about the most is creating a better way for potential cofounders to meet each other.
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by sama 10y ago
As Finbarr says, non minimums at all. Sometimes we fund just an idea if the EV seems high enough.
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by sama 10y ago
I enjoyed attending and I thought many of the conversations were interesting. The format is just discussions. Some of them changed my mind about things, many didn't. No direct actions come out of it, but hopefully there are some bene
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by sama 10y ago
People never really understood what we meant by it. Will try to break out into several more descriptive RFSs in the future.
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by sama 10y ago
Once you submit it we may read it away, so you shouldn't submit it until you'r ready.
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by sama 10y ago
Early 70s.
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by sama 10y ago
We both go in most weeks for about half a day and talk to the team whenever they need.
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by sama 10y ago
I shudder to imagine. It's a real problem with the system. Not yet.
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by sama 10y ago
You are 27. Hard to imagine you'd be behind in anything. But no reason to delay in making the impact you want.
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by sama 10y ago
No, it doesn't hurt future chances!
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by sama 10y ago
Yes, some people call me that...
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by sama 10y ago
We're spending a lot of time right now thinking about where we should add new groups (i.e. where we're limited and where the biggest opportunities are). Hopefully will be ready to talk about it early 2017.
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by sama 10y ago
Working at a startup is the right answer to your first question, and it's definitely a viable path! I expect the rest of the world will trend towards Silicon Valley. But I'm biased. To find industries ripe for new companies, look
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by sama 10y ago
Not yet but that would be interesting to offer some day.
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by sama 10y ago
That's a very good initial step.
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by sama 10y ago
You should give up when no one loves what you're building and you're out of ideas about how to make it better.

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