OpenAI employs over 120 Y Combinator founders. Lenny Rachitsky says the company prizes product taste and user-centric thinking over fast typing, and that ex-founders thrive when designers and engineers work across disciplines.
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We have more than 120 X, Y, Z founders at OpenAI. So it's like this mega startup. And I think just this passion and this envy to build something that matters and then know what good looks like is more important than ever. In your interviewing, what have you seen as skills that are kind of trending up and trending down? Skill that is trending down is typing fast. That is not that useful anymore. Skills that are trending up is, you know, just great taste, thinking about the user, connecting to the audience that you're building for. A lot of ex-founders are incredibly successful. And also roles are blurring. You might have been only into design or only an engineer and felt always a little bit uncomfortable, but now it's just like, it's your time to shine.