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Hi Eric, what is an emergency podcast? And without knowing anything about the guests - what is say, Sam Altman, doing right now that is qualifies him in your view? In other words, why should someone listen to him?
I only meant we rushed it out as fast as we could in light of the emergency. It's not very produced or "professional" sounding or anything like that. Sam has invested in a metric ton of COVID relief efforts and startups. I think we'd all be better off if more people followed his example in this respect.
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> Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? It seems to me that the most effective trait in a politician is strategic decision-making, capability of applying abstract thinking to different situations (which comes particularly handy during crises), and figuring out how to get the right people together and get them to cooperate. All of these also strike me as traits in executives and effective…
The problem is that it is hard to differentiate between lucky idiots who failed upwards, and actually capable executives, who know when to defer to expertise. Executives are judged on results - which are heavily influenced by circumstances that can be entirely outside the executive's control.
The exact same can be said for most politicians as well.
"The first conversation is with investor and philanthropist Sam Altman. He has been one of the leading Silicon Valley figures helping the entire biotech industry make a complete pivot to working on solutions: vaccines, therapies, and eventually a cure." Ok, no disrespect to Sam Altman, but come on .
1. Sam is a leader in SV 2. Sam has done a lot to invest/donate in biotech and nonprofits working on COVID 3. Many biotech companies have pivoted to COVID
The error was mine, not his. Thanks for the feedback.
"The first conversation is with investor and philanthropist Sam Altman. He has been one of the leading Silicon Valley figures helping the entire biotech industry make a complete pivot to working on solutions: vaccines, therapies, and eventually a cure." Ok, no disrespect to Sam Altman, but come on .
I appreciate this comment and the child comments below. Thinking about it, this was poor phrasing on my part. I smashed together three points: 1. Sam is a leader in SV 2. Sam has done a lot to invest/donate in biotech and nonprofits working on COVID 3. Many biotech companies have pivoted to COVID The error was mine, not his. Thanks for the feedback.
By the way, I love your book! It's what made me think maybe making a little side business selling computers wasn't so impossible when I was in high school.
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I appreciate this comment and the child comments below. Thinking about it, this was poor phrasing on my part. I smashed together three points: 1. Sam is a leader in SV 2. Sam has done a lot to invest/donate in biotech and nonprofits working on COVID 3. Many biotech companies have pivoted to COVID The error was mine, not his. Thanks for the feedback.
That makes a lot of sense, and as I tried to say in my comments, no disrespect to altman, he is genuinely doing a lot and it was just the way it was phrased seemed to be off. Thanks for acknowledging it and the thoughtful response. By the way, I love your book! It's what made me think maybe making a little side business selling computers wasn't so impossible when I was in high school.
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Let's be a bit careful here. That quote doesn't imply that anyone has heard of SA, only that he has been helping. Sometimes people help behind the scenes. Similarly, the claim about the industry is simply that it has pivoted. I have zero idea if either claim is true, but let's at least not replace them with claims that no one made. This is in the HN guidelines btw: " Please respond to the strongest plausible interpre…
The quote clearly claims he's helping the entire biotech industry, which is overstated to say the least. Also no idea why you aren't responding to the GP instead. My post is within the the guidelines, even if you choose to disagree with its point.
You're right that the GP comment was also bad and that I could have replied there also.
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Hi Eric, what is an emergency podcast? And without knowing anything about the guests - what is say, Sam Altman, doing right now that is qualifies him in your view? In other words, why should someone listen to him?
What is an emergency podcast? A podcast made to monetize an emergency, clearly.
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The quote clearly claims he's helping the entire biotech industry, which is overstated to say the least. Also no idea why you aren't responding to the GP instead. My post is within the the guidelines, even if you choose to disagree with its point.
Sorry to be a stickler, especially since Eric changed his wording, but your post wasn't within that guideline. You picked a weak interpretation of the quote you were objecting to. There was no inconsistency between "My wife works in biotech in SV and has never heard of him" and what it actually said. If you wanted to refute the quote, something like "My wife works in biotech in SV and that industry has definitely not…
I also appreciate Eric's polite clarification in this thread, but as of now the original text remains on his site. It's a legitimate point of discussion for reasons that others in this thread have explained.
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I only meant we rushed it out as fast as we could in light of the emergency. It's not very produced or "professional" sounding or anything like that. Sam has invested in a metric ton of COVID relief efforts and startups. I think we'd all be better off if more people followed his example in this respect.
Is there a list of these investments, say, in case someone wanted to perform a rough conversion of "metric ton" into USD, which is easier for some of us to conceptualize.
I don’t say any of this to praise Sam (he doesn’t need it) but rather to explain why I thought his interview was interesting.