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Re:Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks b... by leobg on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:42AM (#38345515)
Read what pg has to say about him. He named Altman as one of the top 5 most interesting founders of the last 30 years.

> startup investing does not consist of trying to pick winners the way you might in a horse race. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want.

http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html

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Re:Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks b... by bmitc on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:06AM (#38359972)
Paul Graham has a lot of things to say about a lot of things. It doesn't make what he writes right.
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Re:Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks b... by leobg on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:08AM (#38361220)
Wasn’t saying that. In fact, I was quite puzzled. Altman hasn’t started any SpaceX, NVIDIA or even Stripe.

However, pg has been working with many founders. And he has been working with Altman. I haven’t.

So while it may puzzle me, I do have to wonder what there is that I may be missing.

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Re:Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks b... by rramadass on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:27AM (#38361388)
This was one of the stupidest things PG had said/written. Sam Altman's first company "Loopt" was a YCombinator startup and hence i suspect PG was building him up for business reasons.

The rest is "Halo Effect" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect

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