Sam Altman OpenAI

Sam Altman OpenAI Sam Altman Shares The One Secret To Startup Success Day 2 YC Startup School Patrick Collison Founder, Stripe Alexandr Wang Leads AI @ Meta Welcome to Day 2 of YC Startup School, and what a day it was. three companies in the S&P500 went through the YC batch; and what a day it was. They all said to that you would on in ten years. started OpenAI in 2015 on a belief of AGI that almost it took years before world caught up. His point was that the noise around you and what you is deafening, and conviction is the only through the stretch where you look absolutely wrong. Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI at 19 and now runs AI at Meta. He put a number on it: ten years minimum. eating a lot of glass along the way as a founder, so the thing you pick has to be And then Patrick Collison, who founded Stripe, he said my favorite thing all day. And he said that the skill that is worth building is to learn how to uncover new problems and solve them and be passionate about it. I'm building Solarium, an agentic back office operation software for retail small businesses. Bookkeeping, which is our starting wedge, is as unsexy as it gets. But every retail owner, the people that I love serving, still has that problem, and nobody wants to touch it but for me. And I wake up every day excited to solve it for them. Day 2 of YC OFFICE HOURS SIMULATOR CHAT 1:1 ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE BUILDING Please tell me what you're building in the comments and why you'd still be building in ten years. STARTUP SCHOOL 2023 I would love to hear what you're passionate about.