Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"

The gist

1. AI coding agents have cut work that once took three months down to 17 minutes, making ambitious hard tech startups feasible for small teams.
2. Find at least one co-founder who shares your conviction; if nobody else believes in your idea at all, that is a warning sign worth taking seriously.
3. Altman says being dismissed for years over an unconventional idea is a gift, since it gives you time to build without competition.
4. Build your network by being genuinely helpful to people long before you need anything from them; Altman met his OpenAI co-founder eight years before they worked together.