Office Hours with Sam Altman

Sam Altman and Craig Cannon go through questions submitted on Hacker News.
To submit a question for Office Hours, send an email to [e-mail] with a few sentences of context and your question.
0:10 - As a B2B company how do you get sales outside of your network?
1:55 - Should you go to meetups?
3:01 - How do you expand your network?
5:25 - When founding a startup, is being a college student an advantage or a disadvantage? Does it matter at all?
9:01 - How can a student with no technical background go start a startup?
9:59 - How can a nontechnical person vet a technical person?
10:45 - What should people do when they're not technical but want to build some technical skills?
11:12 - Why do you think crowdfunding for startups hasn't kicked off as well as hoped? What sort of pitfalls have startups in the space encountered that you know about?
12:51 - What do you think is the best way to create impact/maximize potential impact on the world for a high school student developer?
15:45 - How did Sam go about finding what he and the world values?
19:30 - With VR/AR on the rise, how do you think it's going to impact the startup community?
22:02 - How do you know if you're technical enough to build great products?
22:49 - If you were an important but non-founder employee at a startup and your company were to be acquired, how would you approach the process of integrating and insuring success between the companies? And how would you evaluate the acquiring company to decide if it's worth staying?

[@MANJEET19891189]

you people are doing a Great Job!!! Sam always have a Deep Insight of what he says... Thanks for sharing...

[@moighosh7]

Great discussion guys. Quick question what parameters do you follow to check if a product can be a global offering? Some the biggest companies like google and facebook made a whole lot money by doing business overseas. I guess every entrepreneur will be delighted to know how to do a quick market check.

[@Andres-tr5sg]

Did you find out which parameters to check? Very interesting question.

[@Ausiedundan]

Great advice! Thanks!

[@umabugde4978]

Fountainhead line - don't ask others what you should be doing - :) Such a nice interview .

[@AstroRockit]

Really helpful!!

[@blueskiesandgreenpasturesp3848]

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

[@DelimitingMeasure]

SAM ALTMAN 2020!!

[@DENFORESTT]

2024!!

[@choongching]

breadth first then depth.

[@user-kg1od9es5d]

yes... thats the key for anything and any situation. going into depth without having the breadth first will lead you to a local maximum... the special thinkers look for the global max.

[@DENFORESTT]

@@user-kg1od9es5dI’ve been looking for this comment my whole life, where have you been

[@Asmar196]

👏👏👏

[@fintech1378]

i thought Sam is technical?

[@nafis711]

He is .

[@elcapitan6126]

too much vocal frrryyyy listening to this guyyyy

[@phanngoctram8907]

Yeah, vocal fry too unique in Cali 😢