Sam Altman returns to OpenAI

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Sam Altman interviews with Bill Gates and talks about going against Y Combinator's standards to build OpenAI. OpenAI took 4.5 years to launch its first product. They started the company without any idea of what a product would be. They didn't even talk to users. But, having learned the rules and running YC, he learned when to break normal startup conventions. OpenAI was a very different company from the beginning. It was more focused on safety and research than anything. Follow Dark Mode Digest

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