Advice from OpenAI Co-Founder

What is the best piece of advice you wanna give to people who are in their 20s?

What is that one piece of advice you’d give your younger self or someone who’s starting off now after working for a few years. Mine would be that despite the hunger to prove yourself always take the time off to enjoy your success both personally and with people close to you. Time is something you’ll never get back.

Don't focus only on the compensation part only. Learning is very important. If you don't know how to have a mentor... Today you are getting paid for how well you code but now AI can code the best way.. Do in future it's not about how well you code it's about how well you solve use cases with balancing the business need.. This skill can't be learned by any course out there. It's you who has to put in effort.. So invest your money & time on these aspects. Need any guidance talk to mentors outside of your companies/ colleagues

Whats the best piece of advice that you would have given to your younger self ?

You can't learn everything from your own experience, you need to learn some hard life lessons from others experiences too! What's the advice\learning that you think that someone should have told you earlier?

Background: I'm about to start my corporate journey and one of the advices I recieved was "Don't take things personally, and treat most feedback as a chance to improve and not resent!" What would you advice your younger self, about to step out in the corporate world? Drop some wisdom!

I am fresher and am about to leave college. What advice would you like to give to us freshers to earn that much.

Why: I know that with all the job layoffs happening, it's kinda stupid to quit but I just can't. After almost a decade in the startup scene I'm taking a break, probably for good. From AI to B2C to ed-tech and more I have worked with startups at every stage of growth and across sectors. Almost in every one of these w/o exception, I have experienced burnout, mindless pressure, and being underpaid because I'm not from an IIT or IIM. Context: I love technology, I have been a sci-fi nerd since school and I threw myself into the stories of startups changing the world. But because of family finances and the overall culture of startups I haven't taken a break in about 10 years and it's starting to show. I don't have savings to last me more than 3-4 months but at this rate I'll end up checking out of society. Unsolicited advice: 1) Most startups and the VCs that back them know they're going to fail but don't internalise their failure as yours. 2) Always, always take care of your mental + physical health. Doesn't matter if you're intern and you're expected to slog 12-15 hours in the name of learning. 3) I missed moments with my ageing mom and dad, school friends and just time to read and relax because I was afraid of missing out on "networking" and "office night outs". Fuck all that, it is and it will always be family and frit first. Finally, Fuck all you hustle bro CEOs, they have done more to damage the mentor health of a generation more than any politician. I feel stupid and useless because you can't help posturing and creating panic in the name of disruption. Hope AI takes your jobs too. PS: See you on the other side.