{"id":42191,"date":"2023-10-20T15:19:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/y-combinator-president-sam-altman-on-how-to-uncover-a-world-changing-idea-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:19:24","slug":"y-combinator-president-sam-altman-on-how-to-uncover-a-world-changing-idea-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/y-combinator-president-sam-altman-on-how-to-uncover-a-world-changing-idea-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Combinator president Sam Altman on how to uncover a world-changing idea &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sam-Altman-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sam Altman\"><\/div>\n<p>You will never uncover a world-changing idea unless you start working on something now, says Y&nbsp;Combinator president Sam Altman.<\/p>\n<p>In a candid interview in Altman&#8217;s own backyard, his brother Jack quizzed him on what it takes to come up with game-changing ideas and turn them into real life ventures that change the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"a\">Sometimes you actually have to just try s<\/span><span class=\"a\">tuff to figure out what you like,&#8221; Altman said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Altman, who usually takes the interviewer seat and speaks with&nbsp;<a href=\"\/advice\/leadership-advice\/elon-musk-on-conquering-his-fears-and-the-importance-of-small-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visionaries like Elon Musk<\/a>, reveals his own insights into how entrepreneurs can uncover ideas, focus their efforts and choose who to work with.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a\">&#8220;Finding your tribe, finding the sort of people&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"a\">that you end up working with on and off for the rest of your career is&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"a\">really hard,&#8221; he says.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Watch the full interview below.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYMqVwsewSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Facebook,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Twitter,&nbsp;LinkedIn&nbsp;and iTunes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will never uncover a world-changing idea unless you start working on something now, says Y&nbsp;Combinator president Sam Altman. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}