Following ChatGpt, OpenAI founder Sam Altman is once again in the spotlight.
Altman is reportedly close to raising about $100 million. The funds will go toward his plan to create a secure global cryptocurrency, World Coin, using eye iris scanning technology.
Many people say that he is a more crazy genius than Musk.
Sam Altman, born in 1985, has been showing his open-air talent since he was a child. Learning to program at the age of 8 and receiving a computer as a birthday package at the age of 9 made him interested in information technology and the Internet at an early age.
Altman received his high school education at the John Burroughs School and later accepted to Stanford University, where he began to concentrate on artificial intelligence and computer science.
In 2005, he dropped out of college to co-found Loopt, a social media company with friends, that eventually reached a valuation of $175 million.
In 2011, Altman became a partner at Y Combinator, one of the world's richest entrepreneurs and angel investors.
In 2015, Altman co-founded OpenAI with Elon Musk, then CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Their goal in founding the nonprofit AI company is to ensure that AI doesn't wipe out humanity.
Sam once said something like this, which I remember deeply:
I always hope to find a project like this – which, if successful, makes the rest of my career look like a footnote.
I believe that ChatGPT will not be the peak of his career, and I look forward to more wonderful things about this man.
In this article, I have compiled 25 classic quotes from Sam Altman and shared them with you. If you find it rewarding, you are welcome to share it with more people.
The following, enjoy:
01. Whatever you choose, what to do, and surround yourself with smart people.
02. Become the best in the industry, no matter what career you do, even if you miss out on a good industry, the end will not be bad.
03. Good execution is at least 10 times more important and 100 times more difficult than a good idea.
04. Being a founder means maintaining execution for years to come, which cannot be outsourced.
05. Obsessed with product quality.
06. Starting a business is hard no matter what you do; Not as big as the dry ticket.
07. You can only score points if you make what the market wants. Work the wrong things and no one will care.
08. If you don't have a good enough product, any growth technique, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team is not a lifesaver.
09. It takes too long for a project to succeed, and everyone hopes that someone can turn the situation around. But the correct answer is to end this project quickly.
10. I'd rather invest in a company that pursues a small, fast-growing market than a large, slow-growing one.
11. Talk to people more. Watch more long content, less Twitter (Weibo), less TV, and a lot of Internet access.
12. Set yourself a clear goal, every day, every year, every decade.
13. Try new things. This is important. Trying something new not only slows down time, boosts happiness, and makes life more interesting, but it also prevents rigid thinking.
14. Great products are the secret of long-term growth hacking. Before you worry about anything else, you should get it right.
15. You don't need a lot of users, just people who will give you feedback every day and ultimately like your product.
16. Most great founders I know have a series of small overarching goals for the company at any given time, and everyone in the company knows it.
17. Very few startups die from competition, mostly because they fail to make something that users like.
18. Facebook has a famous poster that says Move fast and break the mold. But at the same time, they managed to be fascinated by quality.
19. We've heard time and time again from founders that they wish they could wait until they came up with an idea they really liked before starting a business.
20. It takes many years, often ten, to create a great startup. If you don't like or believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point in the process.
21. The hardest part of coming up with good ideas is that the best ideas often look bad at first.
22. Your job is to build something that users like.
23. The idea itself is not valuable, only good execution can create value.
24. One of the biggest strengths of a startup is the speed of execution, and you have to have that relentless pace of business.
25. One day is long, ten years is short.
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I am a senior social marketing expert in @晏涛三寿 and the author of "Super User Growth", focusing on customer management and helping enterprises grow.