[gk1]

It’s not enough to have unique ideas. You need capital, compute, people, distribution, customers… There’s huge appeal to joining a place that has all those things and lets you pursue your unique ideas without worrying about all that.

[amunozo]

I'm pretty sure Karpathy can have billions of capital if he wanted to.

[conductr]

Mo money, mo problems. Just let the dude work, he’s not starving and he’s probably enjoying his life not completely wrapped up in the stress that running a company in this market must be.

[amunozo]

Sure, he seems like he's focused only in research, so this is the easiest way for him to do it.