Sam Altman: swiftly assembling empowered small teams is OpenAI's superpower
sama · x · 2026-09-23
An OpenAI employee described the company's superpower as swiftly assembling empowered groups of highly capable people to work on whatever is most important and urgent, with no one caring about org lines. Sam Altman quote-posted to add that startups are naturally good at this, larger companies struggle to keep it, and he considers it an underexplored space.
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