Altman’s belief is explicitly that he does not know what the next company should look like, what area it should be in, and what problem it should solve, and so I think he mostly thinks that good people need to be very reactive to their environment
I expect this to be good at many things—he’s probably not wrong that Napoleon would make a good YC founder by his standards—but I expect it’s not the mindset that can develop substantive new tech. And sure enough, it seems like substantive new tech is mostly not being developed.
I expect this to be good at many things—he’s probably not wrong that Napoleon would make a good YC founder by his standards—but I expect it’s not the mindset that can develop substantive new tech. And sure enough, it seems like substantive new tech is mostly not being developed.