What was the biggest transition when shifting from advising founders at Y Combinator to leading OpenAI?

Sam Altman
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Co-founder & CEO at OpenAI

Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. $2 Billion/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015

Advising companies gives you broad exposure across diverse markets, but operating an ambitious research lab requires deep endurance and direct responsibility for extreme execution. At OpenAI, we had to coordinate massive capital, novel scientific breakthroughs, and unprecedented engineering infrastructure simultaneously under intense global attention.

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