Choose smart people over salary | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT)

12 Aug 2025 · 1 min
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Nick Turley explains his personal rule for career decisions: choose the smartest people you want to learn from rather than trying to pick companies by logical predictions or salary. He gives concrete examples—following leaders to Dropbox and Instacart, and being recruited to OpenAI by Joan—describes early, ad-hoc tasks there (sending NDAs, basic operational work) and how that led organically into product work.

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