The fundamental thing that has gone most wrong with inequality in the US is not the spread between the richest person and the median person, but it is that all of the gains, all of the relative progress, has gone to the people at the top—and that, I think, is the most toxic of all.

Our existing governance models did not account for the idea that technology would eventually become so powerful that companies like OpenAI could eventually do what only nation-state actors could do.

When you have these companies that are as powerful or more powerful than most nations and are sort of governed by unelected and, to be perfectly honest, fairly unaccountable leaders, I think that should give all of us pause as these technologies, get more and more powerful.

One of the things that we learned at YC was that if you just set a growth goal—and a very aggressive growth goal—for yourself, like 10% a week or something on your key metric, you can't hide from that very long.

I think the general mistake Silicon Valley has made has been 'be cautious too late,' and we'd rather err on being cautious too early.

Some degree of inequality is the price of capitalism.