had a great surprise conversation with Sam Altman (@sama) the other day in front of hundreds of Silicon Valley interns We talked about: - turning down Goldman Sachs and dropping out of Stanford - how he got Peter Thiel and Paul Graham to take 19-year-old Sam seriously - advice…↗

6 Things @rabois learned from @peterthiel 1. The value of time 2. The importance of focus 3. The importance of recruiting undiscovered talent 4. M&A opportunities and IPO exits are highly correlated 5. Eschew "general management" 6. The best startups are cults↗

Consider two frameworks: The Peter Thiel approach + Keith Rabois approach Thiel - pick a niche they can monopolize and expand outwards from there Rabois - go “horizontal” - find trillion dollar markets + build full-stack, vertically integrated solutions. Go big or go home.↗