Sam Altman answered this question in a lecture a few years ago:

“I think that the best founders are generalists all the way through. Maybe you’re a specialist in a particular technology that you develop, but when you transition from building a product to building a company, you have to specialize in generalization starting that day and never look back.”

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2024-04-16 03:28:19

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