Dorothy Jean Chang

Is this the most 2026 CNN crawler we can concoct or…

Last week, @sama told Stanford GSB that his chronic disappointment in MBAs is that they "always want to just go do the thing that was cool like five years ago and not do the new thing. And I think this is a great time to go do the new thing.”

Our @flybridge summer associate, Claudia Chen, followed up cheekily: "So go do the new thing, even if AI is the cool thing right now?"

Sam deadpanned: "I don't think this is a good time to start another copy of OpenAI.”

Then he continued with a thoughtful point: “But I think there are many companies that can be built on top of technology that OpenAI has put out into the world that will be much, I hope, bigger and more important than OpenAI."

They covered a lot more ground in this interview - pacing, safety, alignment, Sam’s near-miss with becoming an investment banker, what’s really important in life and much more. Great insight into the mind of one of the most influential innovators of our time.

Multi-agent swarms gathering giving early bitcoin meetup vibes… lots of excitement and nerding out about the future. Thanks for the invite @ericxtang and New Collectives!

Quarterly, we bring VCs together for a social. It's a great way to catch up with colleagues in an industry made of very small firms and few actual co-workers. If you're a VC in NYC on Oct 28, please join us! luma.com/b1ynj1sg

Since this was published, friends have asked us to come host an agentic dinner party with them in SF, Toronto, Palm Beach and Europe. Let me know if you want to join and we will see how many we can make happen!