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Being helpful without keeping score leads to opportunities
Being helpful without keeping score leads to opportunities
Sam Altman advises being useful to many people without keeping score, noting that his early investment in Stripe eventually led to meeting Greg Brockman and co-founding OpenAI.
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Topic
- Advice for Founders
- Source timestamp
- 16:34
- Context timestamp
- 16:04
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