It's interesting to see people comparing Altman to Steve Jobs. By Sam's age, Steve had created the Apple II, created the Macintosh, founded NeXT, taken over Pixar, the list goes on. He was universally recognized as having a great eye for product design as well as being a master marketer who was really good at selling things.

Sam on the other hand founded one startup where he was given $40M and failed. Then he got a job from Paul Graham and did a good job running an established VC firm for 5 years.

He hasn't to my knowledge built any products or run any product companies or sold a bunch of stuff, he's basically a professional investor.

The point here is not to throw shade on Sam Altman who is obviously a bright and successful guy and I'm sure he helped OpenAI get to where they are now. But it's beyond me why there's an army of Altman fanbois on Twitter frothing at the mouth over how this guy is indispensable and the next Steve Jobs and a product/research company like OpenAI can't survive without him. It's all politics/entertainment/rich guys throwing money away basically. It feels like that's all the current incarnation of the Valley is sometimes.