That's not what the article says. The quote was specifically about startups 'going full remote forever'. That's way different to saying the era of remote work is over.
Lazy clickbait OP.
Sam Altman says era of remote work is over
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#62Sam Altman is the worst mistake of the tech industry. edit: Like, I'm only half snarky. He ran like one ok company and then got pretty much coronated into OpenAI. edit: edit: Like really. It was a company that let you share your phone location. Revolutionary unicorn to the moon on steroids for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt
He ran ycombinator for a while too. I think that’s where he gets his reputation from.
Yes, that's certainly where he gets his reputation on HN from. He's largely considered not-that-impressive off HN (e.g., people who have worked for or with him and I say that as someone in that category).
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#63Are there any counter examples of remote-first new companies that built something exceptional while always being remote?
Maybe not exceptional but Canonical is fully remote
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Be that as it may, why would corporations that are tenants rather than landlords make decisions on that basis? Remote work saves companies a lot of money on office space.
The C-suite of the company I worked for during lockdown fretted a lot about the lack of usage of the office space. The problem they had was that they had a long-term lease on the building. They couldn't get out of it, and it burned a lot of money. They had a political problem with investors (why are you wasting all this money of office space that nobody is going to?) and getting people back into the office was the ea…
That is why nature invented subletting.
Getting 80% of what you're paying for space you don't need is much better than getting 0%. Then you get to claim a big cost reduction this year and a big cost reduction when the lease expires and you can dump the unneeded space entirely.
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#66When you actually look at the claim Altman can defend from his own experience, it's not that remote work doesn't work for "the tech industry"; it's that remote work doesn't work for early stage startups . But most of "the tech industry" is not early stage startups. Most of the people working in the tech industry could still be working remotely, while at the same time the small fraction of them that are working at ear…
So two friends living in two different places can never build a product and then business around it together. They must be sitting within one meter proximity or the magic potion doesn't work.
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#67Sam Altman is the worst mistake of the tech industry. edit: Like, I'm only half snarky. He ran like one ok company and then got pretty much coronated into OpenAI. edit: edit: Like really. It was a company that let you share your phone location. Revolutionary unicorn to the moon on steroids for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt
Success is mostly luck and finding opportunities from people who will give them to you. Fancy lottery with ceremony.
This is a fact.
Hard work, a good plan, and a good idea are what buy you the lottery ticket. But it's still a lottery.
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#6899% chance he has a vested interest in commercial real estate. Take what he says on this matter with a gigantic DOUBT pill.
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#69Sam Altman is the worst mistake of the tech industry. edit: Like, I'm only half snarky. He ran like one ok company and then got pretty much coronated into OpenAI. edit: edit: Like really. It was a company that let you share your phone location. Revolutionary unicorn to the moon on steroids for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt
He ran ycombinator for a while too. I think that’s where he gets his reputation from.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
He ran ycombinator for a while too. I think that’s where he gets his reputation from.
Yes, that's certainly where he gets his reputation on HN from. He's largely considered not-that-impressive off HN (e.g., people who have worked for or with him and I say that as someone in that category).
To me, he'll always be the creepy WorldCoin guy.