Sam Altman
Sam Altman
Samuel H. "Sam" Altmanis an American entrepreneur, programmer, venture capitalist and blogger. He is the president of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
culture embrace location technology
Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.
bad exactly extreme far few list secrecy sign technology though
I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
business companies point technology
The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.
case jobs technology time
Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'
light money ok spend
What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
team goal should
Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.
team cost
The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.
companies facebook good google hit incredible job observed public standing terrible
Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
consumers tap
With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
america device likely networks tapping tend using
Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.
Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
advantages large main
Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
call current failure learned led money regret start turn
I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
people
I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.