[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)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | 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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