
Cory Levy
@cory • 295,338 subscribers
entrepreneur and early stage investor | founder of Z Fellows @zfellows
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had a great surprise conversation with Sam Altman (Sam Altman) the other day in front of hundreds of Silicon Valley interns We talked about: - turning down Goldman Sachs and dropping out of Stanford - how he got Peter Thiel and Paul Graham to take 19-year-old Sam seriously - advice for young people - the version of ChatGPT he is looking most forward to...and a lot more
Cory Levy448,240 views • 1 month ago

full interview of Sam Altman surprising everyone should be out soon
Cory Levy70,268 views • 1 month ago

here’s my convo with Balaji we talk about what ambitious talent should do and where ambitious talent should go a few notes/takeaways: - a second passport > a first home - it’s easier to build Netflix than reform Blockbuster - rising cities to explore if u can (Dubai, Singapore, Warsaw, Bangalore, Ho Chi Minh City, & Shenzhen)
Cory Levy127,876 views • 8 months ago

Robert Wachen (Robert Wachen) dropped out of Harvard at 21 with $10,000 in a bank account. Three years later Etched has raised $1B+, is valued over $10B, and has signed $1B+ in customer contracts. He's 24. His explanation for why it worked: "We were absolutely not the best people in the world to solve this. We were the only people willing to." More below in this talk he gave to hundreds of interns.
Cory Levy23,519 views • 1 month ago

here is my convo with Naval at Internapalooza we talk about: - curating who you work with (life as a search function) - the leverage explosion from code → AI → agents - what deep tech founders should do early in their careers - how to think about taste, design, and building beautiful things + some hints on Naval’s new company, thoughts on burnout, education, and more
Cory Levy154,071 views • 1 year ago

undisclosed footage from navy SEAL x elite founder bootcamp schedule: 7AM - wake up 7:15AM - workout #1 8:30AM - eat 9AM - work 12:30PM - eat 1PM - work 4:30PM - workout #2 5:30PM - activities 7PM - dinner 8:30PM - work 11PM - lights out jam if you want to come in 2025
Cory Levy44,946 views • 2 years ago

here's a conversation w/Mark Pincus (Zynga founder) we talk about -what he knows now.. he didn't at 22 (and what he'd do differently) -why instinct > idea...your first product is probably wrong and what to do about it -thoughts on chasing signal fast (and the playbook to do it)
Cory Levy13,737 views • 7 months ago
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