Resurfaced video shows 25-year-old Sam Altman pitching Loopt in a diner
jsawadd · x · 2026-09-19
A resurfaced clip shows 25-year-old Sam Altman pitching Loopt, a location-sharing app, to a stranger in a diner — long before he ran one of the world's most influential companies. Loopt went nowhere notable, yet the poster's takeaway resonates: many founders are in their own "Loopt era" right now, where the current company may not be the one they're known for, but it's the one that teaches them to sell, hire, raise money, and persist long enough to find "it".
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