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Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent

Published: Feb. 27, 2019, 12:56 p.m.

Founders aren\u2019t superheroes, says Sam Altman.They may play extreme sports, respond to emails within seconds, and start billion-dollar companies, but they are rarely the product of extraordinary circumstance. In fact, they tend to be solidly upper-middle class, reasonably smart, and with loving parents.\xa0

So would Sam fund Peter Parker? What about Bruce Wayne?

Tyler and Sam discuss these burning questions and more, including what\u2019s wrong with San Francisco, Napoleon\u2019s underrated skill, nuclear energy, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution, his rant against coworking spaces, UBI and AGI, risk and regret, optimism and beauty, and why venture capitalists don\u2019t have superpowers either.

Read a\xa0full transcript\xa0enhanced with helpful links.

Recorded January 28th, 2019

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