Sam Altman on the importance of surrounding yourself with people who don’t shoot down your ideas

Good ideas are not a solo endeavor. You want to find a group of smart people that you can start bouncing things off of and say hey I noticed this thing and it kind of sucked what could we do about it? And you don't just sit in the room and write on the window with the whiteboard pen and have the good ideas come to you. Good ideas come because you talk to people, you have smart friends, you have colleagues and you spitball ideas around. One more thing on that ideas are very fragile. So when you find this set of people to start talking about ideas with you want people they they don't immediately shoot a bad half baked half formed idea down. You want people who will say well that sounds crazy and unlikely to work but think how big it could be if it did work. That's the spirit of the kind of person and then how can we figure out how to make it work that you want to.