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Constantly supposed at how people dunk at founders. Well now that hackernews will give you the answer you can just fail upward and create billion dollar companies

>>zephyr+(OP)
I am not dunking on him, I'm asking why he has such a good reputation that it got him a CEO position of OpenAI. I contrast him with Drew Houston, who I think is absolutely brilliant, someone who was known as being an amazing hacker with an amazing business sense, and now runs a fantastic, large, profitable company.

Or take the Collison brothers, people talk about them as being out of this world smart as well. They have some great talks about their experience building Stripe and their skills at scaling a business are apparent.

I just haven't seen that or heard about Sam's reputation from anyone but PaulG.

>>zephyr+(OP)
>create billion dollar companies

Funny you should say that. OpenAI was launched with a billion dollars in funding. This didn't exactly start out as a bedroom operation.

>>VirusN+d1
You'll notice that all of those people are pretty busy. Founders with a track record that currently have nothing to do have as a rule exited or failed horribly.