Sam Altman & Elon Musk ·OpenAI ·18 FEB 2023

When a former ally attacks you in public, don't defend — pivot to asking what they'd do instead.

Elon Musk & Andrej Karpathy ·OpenAI ·1 FEB 2018

Open research without a profit engine isn't idealism — it's free R&D for whoever has the bigger bank account.

Elon Musk ·OpenAI ·28 JUN 2017

The fastest way to build a moat is to make someone else's resources do the work — before your rivals think to ask.

Elon Musk & Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·20 SEP 2017

The moment your funder's leverage looks like a path to absolute control, your co-founders stop building and start negotiating their exit.

Ilya Sutskever ·OpenAI ·12 JUL 2017

If the bottleneck is hardware, the winner is whoever buys the most of it first.

Greg Brockman ·OpenAI ·31 JAN 2018

When you can't outspend competitors, out-trust them — moral high ground is a strategic asset, not a slogan.