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by sama 10y ago
I agree with Adam's post and intensely disagree with A16Z's post on this topic. I don't think companies should take back stock compensation on a technicality. It'd be silly to even discuss taking back cash compensation
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10-Year Exercise Periods Make Sense(dangelo.quora.com)
319 points by sama 10y ago|143 comments
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by sama 10y ago
The research phase won't be that expensive. If we built one it would require $tens of billions of capital, but we have some interesting ideas about how you might finance it.
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by sama 10y ago
It would be better to move a few hundred startups. Startups sometimes grow up to be big tech companies, and it's much easier to move tiny companies. We could, uh, help with that.
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by sama 10y ago
Cars have a place in cities but maybe they should be in tunnels underground or something. I view money locked up in real estate as money in a very suboptimal place. We pay too much 'rent' in general; it'd be far better to tr
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10-Year Exercise Periods Make Sense(dangelo.quora.com)
7 points by sama 10y ago|0 comments
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by sama 10y ago
I'm quitting for awhile. This is not newsworthy. I will be back, I just want to break the cycle of the compulsion to check it given that I think it's healthier in much smaller doses. I also think Twitter will make changes to the
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by sama 10y ago
We did consider it, and we are working with some established academics. However, I think it's a good idea to push forward alternative models of doing (and funding) research. Frankly, most of the existing institutions we thought about
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by sama 10y ago
Sorry, fixed. Very busy day.
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What if a bot could run a country?(venturebeat.com)
2 points by sama 10y ago|0 comments
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OpenAI Team Update(openai.com)
125 points by sama 10y ago|25 comments
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by sama 10y ago
I feel better about this now than I did a year ago. Proposition 1 is up about 50% in the first year, and proposition 2 is up about 65%. The main point remains--we spend far too much time talking about whether or not startups are in a bubble
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by sama 10y ago
Spun out. They're full time employees of YCR starting a few days ago.
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by sama 10y ago
I think research is really different from startups. That said, I expect that over the next month or two the teams will figure out their general directions, and will share it when they do.
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HARC(blog.ycombinator.com)
415 points by sama 10y ago|101 comments
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by sama 10y ago
Sometimes you have to be willing to risk your personal reputation to stand up for what you believe in. Yes all day every day I do things for YC companies I'm not close to, but our biggest exit ever for sure gets extra attention. In any
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by sama 10y ago
Yes. We pretty much won't invest without that.
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by sama 10y ago
Ok, I tried to answer questions here for awhile. I've got to head into other meetings for the rest of the afternoon. BTW, my working assumption here is that Jeremy is a good person getting bad advice. I'm certainly not out to de
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by sama 10y ago
There have been plenty of times where I've advocated for the founder that has left a company, but not when they left after a little over a month. That's the reason we have vesting cliffs in the first place.
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by sama 10y ago
Fair point, I don't like the way that reads either. I deleted it until I have time to rephrase it.
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by sama 10y ago
> Still, it’s important to the way Silicon Valley works that such behavior not be tolerated. All I meant was to express my view there, but you're right, I don't like the way that reads either. I'm going to update it. >
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by sama 10y ago
Yes, for sure--Kyle should absolutely have done that.
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by sama 10y ago
It does feel a little unfair; I have a huge advantage, no doubt. I basically tried every other method I knew of, even encouraging Kyle to file the suit under seal to keep it private as long as possible. When the guy stopped talking to me,
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by sama 10y ago
As far as I know he hasn't filed a complaint yet, it's just been verbal/emails (which is still more than enough to interfere). I assume he will file something soon. RE naming names, the complain is public anyway, but still i
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Cruise(blog.samaltman.com)
580 points by sama 10y ago|386 comments
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Airbnb's Brian Chesky on Y Combinator's Success Stories [video](bloomberg.com)
31 points by sama 11y ago|1 comments
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Interview with Paul Buchheit(bizjournals.com)
5 points by sama 11y ago|0 comments
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by sama 11y ago
If you seem very hungry to learn, then no, the lack of domain expertise is ok.
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by sama 11y ago
Yes but we need to meet them first.
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by sama 11y ago
No. One thing we like to do is help founders figure out that path.

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