Don't trust OpenAI. Use your own models.
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Brief Summary
Sam Alman’s free tokens for startups come with hidden dangers; founders should be cautious of major tech partnerships.
Key points
- The Danger of Free Offers. Beware of offers that seem too good to be true, especially from big players.
- A Warning to Founders. Partnering with tech giants can lead to disastrous outcomes for startups.
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Transcript
There is no free pizza. There's no free beer. When somebody like Sam Walman comes to you and says, "Here's some free tokens." Your alarm should go off. If you follow the Microsoft example, Lotus 123, Word Perfect were their partners. They were replaced with Excel. They were replaced obviously with Microsoft Word. You don't even know those other two. That's exactly what they have to do. And they have no choice but to do that now because they have a trillion dollar market cap. They must win the application layer. And Sam Alman went to Y Combinator and he said, "We'll give you $2 million worth of free tokens." And I came out and I said, "Listen,
there's nothing personal against Sam. Sam's a very aggressive dealmaker and he wants to get access to those startups cuz he knows having run Y Combinator that if he can get their innovations, those founders latest thoughts about what's around the corner, he can incorporate them into the platform." Zuckerberg did the same thing. He said, "Hey, I'm going to give people a bunch of access, going to give them money. come to the Facebook platform. Nobody who went to bed with Microsoft in the 80s, Facebook in the 2000s, or Sam Alman now in in the 2020s did not wake up with their throat slit. This is a message to founders. If you partner with any of these people, they will slit your throat
and take your business wholesale. There is nothing to discuss here. Don't trust them. Use your own models.
