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by chairhairair 391 days ago
Altman: "Jony was running a design firm called LoveFrom that had established itself as really the densest collection of talent that I've ever heard of in one place AND HAS PROBABLY EVER EXISTED IN THE WORLD."

I felt physically sick from second-hand embarrassment watching this.

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German has a word for second hand embarrassment. Fremdschämen. Comes in very handy here. If Sam continues like this it won’t be long until it becomes part of the regular English language like other German words such as Kindergarten.

And I’ll be happy that I don’t have to explain Fremdschämen anymore. Everything has its upsides.

> until it becomes part of the regular English language like other German words such as Kindergarten.

or Schadenfreude.

Somehow when the buzz-word machine found talent density, half the passengers forgot that density has a denominator. I see this goof a lot. If you accept the premise that Jony is literally the most talented human in the entire history of the world (I know I know), then obviously he was more dense sitting in a room alone, than after being diluted by hiring 50 other people.
Seems like a weird move to say:

* Jony Ive has built a company with the densest collection of talent in the world

* OpenAI is spending 10 figures to buy a company from Ive

* It is not the aforementioned company with the dense collection of talent; it's instead a company that no one has heard of

I almost had to tap out after the number Ive did on Altman in the early monolouge. Feels like some kind of office satire written by Mike Judge
Very trumpian language.