What Sam Altman thinks about Silicon Valley

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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1. 28 Jul 2026

   Our readingY Combinator's much-mocked insistence that founders move to San Francisco was, in hindsight, plainly correct.

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   Their wordsit used to be very heretical that YC told people they had to move to San Francisco. And looking back, it was clearly right.

   ↗Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"youtube.com 9th of 20 in this recording