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Best time in history to start a company
Best time in history to start a company
Sam Altman says this is the best time in history to start a company, with startups able to tackle far larger problems than in earlier eras.
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Topic
- Startups
- Source timestamp
- 0:29
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