Nestor Valles

maker @h___m___i__

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

We made a 30 minute film about how Sam Altman became the CEO of OpenAI, how ChatGPT was invented, and why OpenAI fired Sam in November 2023.

Watch the full documentary here!

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_Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman in November 2023?

On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman with one sentence: he had not been "consistently candid in his communications."

Microsoft found out one minute before the public. Five days later, Altman was back.

That is the story everyone watched.

This film explores the underlying causes of the crisis: a kid fixing a VCR in St. Louis, the dot-com bubble, Paul Graham and Y Combinator, seventy years of AI research, a dinner with Elon Musk, and the 2019 decision to put a for-profit company under the nonprofit.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro
0:57 The dot-com bubble
5:20 Y Combinator
9:08 The big picture
13:50 What can go wrong?
18:07 OpenAI
23:10 ChatGPT
26:31 Five days to decide the future
31:20 Artificial general intelligence

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Save Jensen.

This would be an Apple firing Steve Jobs level of idiocy from NVIDIA’s board if they did that, and a grievous harm to the United States of America.

The dude truly is the visionary driver of the future of tech from the gaming GPU era to CUDA to AI supercomputers.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

@bvvst beautiful

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

@awilkinson Well, portrait painters didn’t disappeared with the camera

I think the correct analogy is fashion

Clothing is a solved problem centuries ago, you can’t compete on the utility layer, only on aesthetics

Software will be similar

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

AI is a force multiplier in 2 verticals:

- It can do the work you don't want to do
- It can do the work you want to do

We need to be more ambitious with the later. If you're doing YouTube, try to be a Filmmaker. If you're doing Instagram reels, try to build an app. If you're a writer, try to make a video game.

Be more ambitious.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

@nlevin It means you have a message from Grok Bot, you need to click "Show Bots".

I hate it too.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

@theo that's how it was meant to be

anyone complaining shouldn't compete

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

@hectorserrranoo making great products is still hard

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

i’m starting to think that not having investors is a competitive advantage in SaaS

if you get investors in, you need to play the speed + growth game, so you’re forced to compete in big categories and get a big team fast

but for all big categories in software, you’re going to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX, in the same game, but with less resources

but if you’re a small profitable team, you don’t have that pressure

so you can keep small

and small teams build better software. that’s a fact.

anything good in the market has authorship, and authorship comes from individuals and small teams

big teams adds bureaucracy, and makes everyone afraid of taking bold decisions about the product

and eventually the software is everyone’s point of view, bloated, and flat

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

krea is lowkey becoming highsfield or what?

[Krea @krea_ai]

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[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

"you will own nothing and be happy"
"you will know nothing and be happy"

^ Gotta prevent this at all costs.
Use AI to know and understand.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

The best entrepreneurs do it for love.

1) You love so much a mom, a wife, a kid, an aunt, a brother, a friend. That you just simply need to get out of poverty. There's no other option. No matter what's the sacrifice. You just need to do it.

2) You love so much a vision, a dream; that you want to make it a reality.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

@turtlekiosk @floguo this is true in every case if you don’t make your own products

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

it's better to quit early on the wrong things.

i have this inner monologue that stops me from quitting things. i want to finish the things i start. but over time i've changed my mind about this.

there are so many books that it's a waste of time finishing the ones you know are bad from the first pages. there are so many people that it's a waste of time keeping them around if you know you're not a fit.

same with clients and business ideas.

don't stick with a client that is not a fit from the beginning. don't stick with a business idea if it'll make you miserable if it doesn't work in the first 3 years.

stick only with what is aligned with your long-term vision.

only the books that are exciting, even if they're hard to read.

only the people with great character.

only the ideas that are worth it to give them your best years.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

Robots aren't a threat to creativity and art. We just need to think bigger.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

The first citizen of Athens, reborn in 2026 - with robots!

https://t.co/M8Ozej0S5t

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

@jackfriks probably you should have a popup that talks about you and your products, in less than 100 words, and an email signup.

show it to visitors that spent more than 15s on your site and aren’t recognized.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

The thing about talent is that nobody can be right about you.

If they tell you that you suck, they really can't know. What if you suck now but become great later?

If they tell you you're great, they really can't know. What if you're great now, but compared to global talent you're just average?

You could even die in obscurity, and 100 years later someone rediscovers you and makes you a global icon.

So if nobody can really tell, it's simply a better bet to believe you're the most talented person doing what you do.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

If what you care about most is social status, then you'll freak out when telling the truth could make you powerful enemies.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

@benjitaylor Great work but the logo sucks

[Dan Shipper @danshipper]

this is anti competitive and not cool

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