Opening
Eric Ries (00:00:00): ... all kinds of famous companies. The thing that destroyed them was not competition. Their very success became a liability. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:07): I want to hear the OpenAI versus Anthropic story. Eric Ries (00:00:09): Dario was a first time founder. Wasn't a hot company at all. The boom hadn't happened yet. ChatGPT hadn't been invented yet. Nonetheless, they were true believers in this safety mission, and so one of their investors suggested they come talk to me....
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Low-ego framing
boom hadn't happened yet. ChatGPT hadn't been invented yet. Nonetheless, they were true believers in this safety mission, and so one of their investors suggested they come talk to me. I told them,...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
If you're like, "Well, because of gravity," I'm going to be like, "Dude, yeah, thank you for that genius insight." I understand that that is correct in some very real way. We say, "Well, it's inevitable....
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Return warmth
Eric Ries (00:03:34): I appreciate you saying that. And it is funny how every wave there's a backlash and somebody writes the article, "Because of this,...
Matches the guest's warmth and keeps the social temperature generous.
Low-ego framing
ample. I think about vital eggs as a great example of this. It was in the news, I don't know, on Twitter, TikTok a while ago. It's the eggs that we've been getting forever. It's like pasture-raised, organic....
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (01:38:46): A great pitch. Incorruptible: Why...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.