PG seem to have taken a liking to a teenage sam altman and elevated him into stratosphere with vacuous, and honestly very ridiculous, praises like he is 'micheal jordan of listening' or that he knew altman was the next bill gates within 3 minutes of meeting the teenager.
How in the world does a college dropout who hasn't built a thing in his life get 4% stake in stripe for $15k . I always thought PG essays were just boring but they now seem wildly hypocritical for all the huffing and puffing about 'meritocracy'.
Lots of my civilian friends seem to think he is the one building "AI" and were defending him to death when he got fired.
Whole thing is really bizzare (and creepy) to me. Why is SV ,and general public now, seem so enamored with this man. I don't get it.
Founders are frequently dreamers and speculators, they really should have a "reality distortion field" that will get investors, employees or customers on board. The best person to bring them out has to work in that space, being able to coach founders in doing that but they have to also avoid "getting high on their own supply", being able to build and maintain trust with a phenomenal number of stakeholders, etc.
I tried hard to pick the right word because I'm aiming for something that has positive and negative connotations. "Bullshitter" is too negative but gets to the heart of the balancing act Altman has maintained.
Sam Altman is good at people and therefore striking up deals and obtaining funding. Say what you will about him. He's as deeply flawed as the rest of us. The difference is that the press is interested in him.
One tangible accomplishment, which should have come up in the first 10 minutes of your research is that he obtained billions in OpenAI funding from Microsoft. In fact, Sam has a long history of this[1]. He's also instrumentally helped several very well known startups to success.
You seem to think of him as something like a charlatan, but soft skills are just as important as technical skills. Do I have some questions about his ethics? Sure. But as to the question itself, there is irrefutable proof.