Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent

<p class="graf graf--p">Founders aren’t superheroes, says Sam Altman.They may play extreme sports, respond to emails within seconds, and start billion-dollar companies, but they are rarely the product of extraordinary circumstance. In fact, they tend to be solidly upper-middle class, reasonably smart, and with loving parents. </p> <p class="graf graf--p">So would Sam fund Peter Parker? What about Bruce Wayne?</p> <p class="graf graf--p">Tyler and Sam discuss these burning questions and more, including what’s wrong with San Francisco, Napoleon’s underrated skill, nuclear energy, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution, his rant against coworking spaces, UBI and AGI, risk and regret, optimism and beauty, and why venture capitalists don’t have superpowers either.</p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-sam-altman-ai-tech-business-58f530417522"> Transcript and links</a></p> <p class="graf graf--p">Follow <a href= "https://twitter.com/sama">Sam</a> on Twitter</p> <p class="graf graf--p">Follow <a href= "https://twitter.com/tylercowen">Tyler</a> on Twitter</p> <p class="graf graf--p">More CWT goodness:</p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://facebook.com/cowenconvos">Facebook</a></p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://twitter.com/cowenconvos">Twitter</a></p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/cowenconvos/">Instagram</a></p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://mercatus.org/newsletters">Email</a></p>