Comment by cma
10 hours ago
I think maybe all Altman companies have used tactics like this.
> We were trying to get a big client for weeks, and they said no and went with a competitor. The competitor already had a terms sheet from the company were we trying to sign up. It was real serious.
> We were devastated, but we decided to fly down and sit in their lobby until they would meet with us. So they finally let us talk to them after most of the day.
> We then had a few more meetings, and the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract.
> I think the reason why PG respects Sam so much is he is charismatic, resourceful, and just overall seems like a genuine person.
>> > I think the reason why PG respects Sam so much is he is charismatic, resourceful, and just overall seems like a genuine person.
does he? wasn't sama ousted of YC in some muddy ways after he tried to co-opt in into an OpenAI investment arm, was funny to find the YC Open Research project landing page on yc's website now defunct and pointing how he misrepresented it as a YC project when it was his own
maybe he fears him, but I doubt pg respects him, unless he respects evil, lol
The post was from 14 years ago, before that.
oh, gotcha
For a long time, the YC application asked founders for an example of how they "hacked" (cheated) a system.
I think pg was into it way before sama was a baby lol https://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
So, a more charismatic version of Zuck is Zucking, what a surprise. Company culture starts at its origin. Despite Google's corruption, its origin is in academia and it shows even now.