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Sam Altman: “Never a Better Time to Do a Startup”
Startups and entrepreneurship

Sam Altman: “Never a Better Time to Do a Startup”

Y Combinator Startup Podcast 28.07.2026 39 min
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In 2005, Sam Altman was a Stanford sophomore in YC’s first batch, building a startup in a little Cambridge office while Paul Graham cooked the founders dinner. Twenty years later, as co-founder & CEO of OpenAI, he closed Startup School 2026 in conversation with YC's Garry Tan — on agents, ambition, and why the ceiling for what a startup can…

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