Sam Altman for President

Post by mikeg8 » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 3:39 AM UTC

brianchesky wrote: post #79

sama wrote: post #2

I’m very excited about this. YC is the smartest group of people I’ve ever worked with, and I believe that startups are going to be the major driver for innovation and economic growth going forward. I was thinking this morning about what it was like to start a startup in early 2005 and how much it’s changed now. PG has done a remarkable amount to improve the startup ecosystem for founders—in fact, it’s hard to think o…

Congrats Sam! Starting with even before we joined Y Combinator in the summer of 2008, you were always a very important advisor to us. I remember when we were first trying to raise money, no investor would talk to us. In our fundraising deck, we had our total addressable market at something like $100M, which was ridiculous considering our vision was just airbeds. We wanted to make it smaller. You told us to opposite -…

Post by nandemo » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 3:42 AM UTC

andrewpbrett wrote: post #112

"You could parachute [Sam] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king." - PG 5.5 years ago[1] Congrats Sam. [1] http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html

Post by thomaspun » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 4:05 AM UTC

sama wrote: post #2

I’m very excited about this. YC is the smartest group of people I’ve ever worked with, and I believe that startups are going to be the major driver for innovation and economic growth going forward. I was thinking this morning about what it was like to start a startup in early 2005 and how much it’s changed now. PG has done a remarkable amount to improve the startup ecosystem for founders—in fact, it’s hard to think o…

Post by seanmcdirmid » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 4:32 AM UTC

the_watcher wrote: post #43

For a second I got irrationally excited that Sam was announcing a Presidential run, then read the post. Beyond my initial excitement at a potential USPOTUS candidate I actually believe in, I'm much happier that Sam is taking over YC, where he can add much more value, and hopefully free up PG to do more thinking (writing, giving advice, etc).

Post by kn0thing » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 5:19 AM UTC

ajju wrote: post #116

drawkbox wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be awesome for technology focused entrepreneurial focused people did get into the presidency and politics. Maybe guys like Sam one day or Jim Greer of Kongregate: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/383925-...

Agreed. I do believe Alexis will end up being the Senator from reddit :)