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▶ 7:24 · AI Coding Agents · Altman: coding agents compress 3 months of startup work into 17 seconds
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Y Combinator

Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"

2026-07-28 · 1 company · 10 thematic
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sam altman

CEO of OpenAI since 2019; previously president of Y Combinator (2014-2019); early investor in Stripe; leads OpenAI's transition from research lab to product company to infrastructure utility.

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