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I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

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Re: I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

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gyardley wrote: post #55

Are you at all concerned that the compressed timetable leading up to Demo Day contributes to founder burnout and unhealthy lifestyles? How do you know the program isn't inadvertently damaging some of its participants?

Yes, definitely. We do remind founders to sleep, eat well, and exercise, and we have recommended therapists available (and we tell founders this is one of things that it's good to spend money on), but it's definitely an intense program. We try to be upfront about that, and that it's not a good fit for everyone.

Re: I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

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pierzcham wrote: post #73

YCR has published request for research in basic income recently. What plans do you have for future areas of reseach?

So far we have supported AI and basic income research. We plan to do one more group soon, and then potentially one other later this year. We'll share more about them as we get closer--we advise startups not to pre-hype what they're going to do, and try to follow our own advice on that :)
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