Startup Rules Broken by OpenAI on the Way to $30B Valuation, According to Sam Altman.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared during a fireside chat hosted by fintech company Stripe that his company broke all the traditional startup rules, including launching a product after four and a half years, being the most capital-intensive startup in Silicon Valley history, and building a technology without any idea of who their customers were going to be or what they were going to use it for. Despite potential investors telling him he was doing it wrong, Altman didn't care and knew the startup rules well enough to break them with confidence.