Peter Thiel advised Sam Altman to double down on ChatGPT
FoundersPodcast · x · 2026-08-23
Citing Sam Altman, a podcast highlights that Peter Thiel's best advice was to focus on what works. When ChatGPT launched with fast but seemingly unstable growth, many inside OpenAI wanted to pivot. Thiel convinced Altman that ignoring the growth to do anything else would be an obvious mistake.
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