sam loui 🚀

What is the very very first thing you did to start working on your startup? Pitch deck? MVP? Interviews?

@FounderEric Be honest with yourself about the gaps in your skillset (and find someone who fills those)

What’s the best advice for founders looking to make the first hire?

@valikit14 @VCBrags I propose more nature analogies. God knows all us tech people need to touch grass.

@VCBrags finally someone said it. that analogy’s worn out. what’s a fresh way to think about the future of investing?

@_robyn_smith It’s like Coachella. You go to be around but not actually go to the official events.

Can we talk about how tech weeks are largely useless and just the same people flying to different major cities and hanging out

If anyone wondered why I disappeared from the internet, I was busy winning a Super Bowl. But I’m back baby.

@AlexaKayman Bay Area kids have more aura 🤷‍♀️

everyone has opinions on Bay Area kids in startups. but NYC kids born of mercenary environments (hedge funds, power brokers, corporate litigators) are under discussed.

What are your favorite educational resources about startups or for founders? Self promo welcome :)

One OpenAI critic calls it "the theft of at least the millennium and quite possibly all of human history." Are they right? UCLA nonprofit law expert Rose Chan Loui and I discuss OpenAI's unprecedented gambit to ditch its nonprofit for good: 4:08 – How OpenAI carefully chose a complex nonprofit structure that failed 11:56 – OpenAI's new plan to go for-profit 14:49 – The nonprofit board is out-gunned, out-manned, out-numbered, out-planned. Who can help? 17:28 – Who would stand cheated in a bad for-profit switch? 28:03 – Has this happened before? 29:37 – Is it truly in the nonprofit's interest to sell control of OpenAI, or is it a bad deal? 36:10 – The difficulty of valuing OpenAI's future windfall profits 42:31 – Control of OpenAI is independently incredibly valuable and demands compensation 53:09 – What most miss: It's very important the nonprofit get cash and not just equity 1:05:36 – Is it a farce to call this an "arm's-length transaction"? 1:10:59 – How the nonprofit board can best play their hand 1:17:42 – Can Elon Musk mount a court challenge and how that would work The volunteer nonprofit board is hugely outgunned by groups who would profit by tens of billions by screwing it over. And it will take a heroic effort and help from some state attorneys general to get everything it's owed. But that... just might happen. We don't hold back on the opinions. Episode available in audio and video on the 80,000 Hours Podcast here, on any app, or YouTube.

Intuit lost the last of my good will when they got rid of Mint

reeling from performing with snoop dogg

@AaronAgre aaron for @sydecario social media manager

@samroseloui instantly regretted typing this out but hopefully it gives someone a tremor of laughter

no one works faster than marketers on a social media post using the earthquake as advertising

Who are the awesome investors in the Maryland/DMV scene? Exciting events coming up this summer for an energy accelerator there!

@brickywhat meeeeeeeee

Traveling to NY for work end of the month!! ! 1. who should I meet?? 2. WHERE DO I STAY 3. WHY ARE HOTELS SO EGREGIOUS

as someone who was homeschooled and was privileged to have it work out quite well, I feel the need to disclaim don’t homeschool your kids.

*I am not quitting VC though

thinking about that time I interviewed with @sabakarimm and he asked me if I was going to run off to be a professional dancer. I said no way would I be able to. Turns out he was right. 🤷‍♀️

@brickywhat my vocabulary has shrunken to the size of a 2nd grader's

I think Tik tok is rotting my brain and making me less articulate

@hellostartupla my thoughts as well 🤫

there’s a guy at the gym wearing a shirt that says “democratizing venture capital”. Should I go up to him and be like “I too am of those vibes”

@sri_varre headed to new hampshire this weekend so listening to bear brook!

@samroseloui lol depends on the place - where are you going?

Do you ever book a trip then try to find a crime podcast set in that place? or just me