Sam Altman on the revenge of the idea guy

By Stripe

Categories: Product, Startup

Transcript Excerpt

There was a time when we used to make fun of the idea guy. There are these people who wanted to start a company and they'd say like I have the best idea. I'm not going to tell you what it is. I have the best idea. I just need a coder to like build it for me. And then I'm going to be in great shape. And we would like make fun of these people. They weren't that successful. And it was like kind of always personally annoying to me cuz it's like it would be like saying like I have a great idea for a ...