Greg Brockman: How to Stay Valuable as AI Gets Smarter

Apr 22, 2026 · 1h 13m

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0:00So how did OpenAI come about?

0:02I knew I wanted to do a startup because I felt like that was something.

0:06But you were just in a startup.

0:07Stripe was a startup.

0:08It's true, but I never, I felt like Stripe, the problem that we were solving, was not my problem, right?

0:17It wasn't the problem I'd grown up thinking about.

0:18It was an important problem, and I dedicated myself to that mission for a number of years.

0:23But I felt like it was going to succeed with or without me.

0:26And so then I had a first moment to really think about what is a mission that I want to dedicate myself to, where I would spend the rest of my life working on this problem just to see it play out in a slightly better way.

0:38And it was very clear to me that top of the list was AI, right?

0:42If you could actually make a difference in how AI will play out in the world, that would be a life well lived.

0:50When you were thinking about leaving, Patrick told you to go talk to Sam Altman.

0:54What happened in that conversation?

0:56Well, so Patrick had said, Sam has seen lots of young people in your situation.

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