The most important thing you can do for yourself in your career is to work on something you love with people you love.

careerpassionStanford startup lecture, 2014

OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. That means sometimes our products will not be optimized for short-term revenue.

aimissionInterview, 2023

Successful people tend to be relentlessly resourceful. They do not give up when the first door closes.

resilienceresourcefulnessHow To Start A Startup, 2014

A great startup idea is one where the founder is the only person in the world who could have had that specific insight at that specific moment.

ideasinsightYC advice, 2016

If AGI is real, the question of who builds it and with what values is the most important question of the 21st century.

agiaiInterview, 2023

Startups are not about working hard. They are about working on the right things.

focusstartupsYC Demo Day, 2015