Sam Altman

And it's gotten harder for sure.

But also, like, you can just do a lot of stuff now.

I mean, there's a question of should we be really proud of that or should other companies be really embarrassed?

And we believe in a very high bar for the people on the team.

We work hard.

which you're not even supposed to say anymore or something.

We give a huge amount of trust and autonomy and authority to individual people, and we try to hold each other to very high standards.

And there's a process which we can talk about, but it won't be that illuminating.

I think it's those other things that make us able to ship at a high velocity.

If like most people in the company weren't really excited to work super hard and collaborate well on GPT-4 and thought other stuff was more important, there'd be very little I or anybody else could do to make it happen.

But we spend a lot of time figuring out what to do, getting on the same page about why we're doing something, and then how to divide it up and all coordinate together.

I think a lot of people claim to spend a third of their time hiring.

I for real truly do.

I still approve every single hire at OpenAI.

And I think there's, you know, we're working on a problem that is like very cool and that great people want to work on.

We have great people and some people want to be around them.

But even with that, I think there's just no shortcut for putting a ton of effort into this.

I think so.

It's not all perfect or easy, but on the whole, they have been an amazing partner to us.

Satya and Kevin and Mikhail are super aligned with us, super flexible, have gone like way above and beyond the call of duty to do things that we have needed to get all this to work.