“You learn some lessons from failure, but I think you learn way more from success.” - Sam Altman “When I look at the lessons where I failed at something, I learned something generic about grit and determination and something not to do, but, most things don't work. There’s a... lot of reasons why things don't work. It’s harder to put together the correct causation.” “When I've had something really work, when I understand what parts of Y Combinator really worked or what parts of OpenAI really worked, trying to apply those lessons going forward has been much more helpful to me than trying to apply the anti-lessons of what didn't work.” “You should of course learn as much as you can from every data point. Learn from the failures, learn from the successes. But in my own experience, when I have tried to apply those lessons, the lessons I learned from success were very good and I should have applied those more. And the lessons I learned from failure were either fairly generic and I kind of already knew them, or got in the way of something else.”show more

@sama underrated take. learning why you win and doubling down on that can exponentially explode your gains (to an extent)

@sama openai grew crazy after leaning into the chatgpt success signals

I've found that analyzing failure can be super helpful. Destroys the ego and that's a good thing. But too much of it and you start to doubt yourself. So there's probably some truth into succeed leading to more succeed, because self confidence climbs and you move with more momentum and make shit happen.

@sama Wonderful interview @davidsenra , When an interviewer gains a thorough grasp of the founder, the company, and the product, the outcome emerges as a masterpiece.

@sama 🤔There’s also a lot of reasons why things work. So it’s always difficult to put together the correct causation.

@sama Thất bại dạy mình kiên cường, nhưng thành công mới dạy mình... ăn mừng đúng cách đó chứ 😂

@sama Excellent Interview, David. Thanks, Guys.

@sama Copy what works

@sama Good

@sama The “almost” is where the real customer insight lives. It tells you what nearly broke the decision and what you need to fix next.

@sama Great interview. I think Sam is insightful

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