Overlap (YC S24)

Why Brian Chesky doesn’t believe in 1-on-1s “I don't believe in 1-on-1s and almost no great CEO in history has ever done 1-on-1s. Very few. Jensen Huang doesn’t do 1-on-1s because he wants everyone to be part of a solution.” What do you think?

How Sam Altman got into the first Y Combinator batch When Sam was a Stanford freshman, Paul Graham rejected him from YC, saying “you’re a freshman and you should wait.” Sam replied: “I’m a sophomore and I’m coming.” Reflecting on the story, Sam says: “I don’t often see why things have to be the way they are so I’m going to do this thing from first principles … I do think you can just do stuff and try stuff a surprising amount of the time.” CC: Y Combinator, Garry Tan

Sam Altman on the power of agency & conviction “Before YC, I had this deep belief that somewhere in the world there were adults in charge and they knew what was going on. I now understand that you can just do stuff. No one has all the answers. There are no adults in the room that will magically tell you what to do. That was a big unlock in life.” Source: Y Combinator, Garry Tan

Sam Altman says Artificial Superintelligence is thousands of days away. There is a lot of compounding left to do. What happens then? Fix climate, space colonies, limitless intelligence, understanding physics, abundant energy. Think bigger. The age of abundance is nigh.

The future is already here, just not evenly distributed. It takes a long time for technology to make it into people’s hands. Fourier Transforms took 150 years to fully manifest in our built world. AI is here but it’s going to take time.

Sam Altman’s advice to AI startups: Assume a steep trajectory of AI advancement “If you are building a business that patches some current small shortcomings, that will not be as important in the future. We believe we’re on a steep trajectory of improvement.” Source: Harry Stebbings

Brian Chesky: Don't listen to venture capitalists "I've had a court side seat at all of the Warriors championship games. But just because I had a front row seat at championships, doesn't mean that I could coach an NBA team. And that's true of venture capitalists." What do you think?

David Friedberg’s simple startup advice: "How do you succeed? You gotta grind. There wasn’t some moment of genius with the Wright Brothers building the first airplane. There wasn’t some discovery or whatever mythology. It was a grind and they eventually solved it.” - David Friedberg What do you think?

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on resilience "I like hard things because they take a long time. If it takes a long time, people who are less committed won't do it. Only a resilient and dedicated person will." -NVIDIA's Jensen Huang