" A great board member is demanding in good times and supportive in tough times." "In success, you can level up to the next area. You can get the next amazing recruit. You have the capacity to walk into a room with a customer that maybe you shouldn't be the one serving." "Simultaneously, when things are not working, that founder has thought about all the ways it's not working, all the pain of it not working, way more than we ever will."

.@lulumeservey was right that going direct works. "What she was saying is that rather than cultivating your messaging to the broad public, you should direct it towards a very specific group of people." "But sometimes the things that you say to convince a bunch of very odd AI researchers to join your lab, when the rest of the world hears that, they're like...dude, what the fuck?" "They don't know how they sound to everyone else because they're not trying to message the public." “@sama could write that AI might make the world worse off and shift power from labor to capital, and that honesty might be respected by AGI-pilled researchers." "But once you’re trying to IPO and need investors and the public to like you, the same message becomes a lot more troubling.”