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

careerpassion— Stanford startup lecture, 2014
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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.

aimission— Interview, 2023
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Successful people tend to be relentlessly resourceful. They do not give up when the first door closes.

resilienceresourcefulness— How To Start A Startup, 2014
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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.

ideasinsight— YC advice, 2016
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If AGI is real, the question of who builds it and with what values is the most important question of the 21st century.

agiai— Interview, 2023
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Startups are not about working hard. They are about working on the right things.

focusstartups— YC Demo Day, 2015