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Great ideas require sacrificing merely good ones
Great ideas require sacrificing merely good ones
Altman says companies with limited compute, talent, and other resources must be willing to discontinue worthwhile projects so they can concentrate on more important opportunities.
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Topic
- Strategic Focus
- Source timestamp
- 51:47
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