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Kevin's avatar

I wouldn’t take Sam Altman’s comments to the effect of “clearly the company can run just as well without me” as actually being evidence that the company can run just as well without him. That’s just the sort of polite thing you say to be nice to your team.

In particular nobody else is going to be as good at fundraising as Sam Altman, and fundraising is probably still an important part of OpenAI’s future plans.

He may be valuable for all sorts of other things internally, too, I don’t know. If I had to guess I would say he probably is. There’s a big difference between great startup CEOs and mediocre startup CEOs.

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Your point about Paul Graham loving his kids is a brief comment, but I have often thought our chances for survival would go up if major AI companies were led by CxOs and Board members who had children. In lieu of that, monthly bring-your-kid-to-work-days? CxO talks at high schools and middle schools?

The concept of "future generations" moves from theory to practice when you have kids.

Thank you, Zvi. Your coverage on OpenAI recently tipped the scales for me and I became a paid subscriber.

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