[HN Gopher] I wrote in June 2021 how Sam Altman's departure from...
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I wrote in June 2021 how Sam Altman's departure from YC had been
under explored
Author : doener
Score : 57 points
Date : 2023-11-17 22:00 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| yieldcrv wrote:
| that actually could be interesting and important
|
| I've had the same frictions with everyone that's ever worked with
| me as an executive, if I structured my organizations any
| differently I would have been out for the same reasons each time
| too, but other stakeholders never had that power
| codetrotter wrote:
| Is there a link to the whole thing? I see three screenshots but
| it seems that the original writing is longer than that.
| confd wrote:
| Went digging through your Substack archives to find the full
| piece, but sadly it's locked.
|
| An adjacent story had an interesting and tangentially relevant
| point as of today, though
|
| > To understand the material world, you might study physics. To
| resolve those epistemic questions, you could turn to
| philosophers. For questions of the soul, you might ask a
| minister. But for these social questions in the short-term you're
| basically stuck with journalists... > > ...We're left trying to
| build a mental model for how the world works in this fog. In
| tech, we know very little about what leaders like Peter Thiel or
| Marc Andreessen are up to on a day-to-day basis. We get only
| snippets of their actual ideologies. Thiel famously hid the fact
| that he was funding the lawsuit to bring down Gawker! We learned
| about it because Ryan Mac and Matt Drange reported it.
|
| https://www.newcomer.co/p/andreessen-horowitz-and-the-future
| Exoristos wrote:
| I'm unable to take seriously someone whose phone battery is on
| red.
| sheepscreek wrote:
| Then we would never get along.
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