Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)
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Logan Kilpatrick (00:00:00): Finding people who are high agency and work with urgency, if I was hiring five people today, those are some of the top two characteristics that I would look for in people because you can take on the world if you have people who have high agency and not needing to get 50 people's different consensus....
The opener names the listener's problem first, then makes the guest useful to that problem.
it, ChatGPT launched just over a year ago and transformed the way that we think about AI and what it means for our products and our lives. Logan has been at the front...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
to leverage the tech that you guys are building, GPT-4, all the other APIs? How should people be thinking about, "Here's how we should really think about leveraging this power in our existing product," or...
Turns a moment that could become critique into a question about the guest's thinking.
Monday morning, I was walking into the office being, like expecting, I don't know, something weird to be going on or happening. And really it was like people laser focused and back to work, and I...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Logan Kilpatrick (01:07:16): This is awesome, Lenny. Thanks for having me in....
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Lenny (01:07:01): And then you can expense your account. I think it's 10 or 20 bucks a month. A lot of companies are paying for this for you, so ask your boss if you can just have it expensed and make sure you use the latest version. Anyway, Logan, thank you again so much for being here. Logan Kilpatrick (01:07:16): This is awesome, Lenny. Thanks for having me in. Thoughtful questions. Hopefully those weren't all from ChatGPT. Lenny (01:07:20): Nope, only the last one....
The ending reorients from guest intimacy to listener usefulness.